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Companies Fined $2M in MARPOL Case While Engineer was Found Not Guilty
The owner and operator of a bulker registered in the Marshall Islands were sentenced and fined after pleading guilty in a March 2021 MARPOL case at the Port of New Orleans. The Department of Justice said the case was part of its ongoing enforcement of environmental regulations. While the companies…
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Hong Kong Receives First International Cruise Ship in Three Years
Hong Kong marked the first arrival of an international cruise into the city in three years signaling what many people hope is a key turning point for the industry and Asia’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. While China continues to battle surges of variants of the virus, officials are still…
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Salvage Operations is Underway in Gibraltar to Remove OS 35 Wreck
Salvage operations are underway off Gibraltar to remove the wreck of the bulker OS 35 after some weather-related delays. The port approved the salvage plan late in 2022 setting a target to complete the removal process of the 35,000 dwt bulker which was intentionally grounded and later sunk after fitting another vessel…
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Hapag-Lloyd’s First LNG-Fueled ULCV Floated in South Korea
Hapag LNG containership floatedHapag’s new LNG-fueled ultra-large containership floated for the first time in South Korea (Hapag) Two years after the order was placed, the first of Hapag-Lloyd’s new ultra-large container vessels was recently floated. The ship is the first of a new class of vessels for the carrier which…
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Nadir Mumtaz writes : Mangroves, Carbon Sequestration, Harbor Infrastructure and Coastal Degradation
Urbanization and Invasion of Mangroves Swamps Nadir Mumtaz (Maritime Analyst) The rapid increase in population and corresponding urbanization in coastal megacities has been accompanied by frenzied land reclamation driven mostly by anthropogenic factors . Mangroves are prevalent all over except Antarctica. Seaward land reclamation entails the formation of artificial land facade structures…
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Pablo Rodas-Martini writes : “A Balancing Act”!
Pablo Rodas-Martin Author and speaker, bewitched by ships and ports, “A Balancing Act” is taking place in the world’s biggest ports with enormous ships calling and the imperative that each arrival takes place with the utmost safety and efficiency. Zero accidents and the highest possible throughput in the shortest possible…
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Nadir Mumtaz writes : National Fleets versus Phantoms Fleets
What remains to be seen is to what extent the Russian hydrocarbon industry will utilize Russian flagged or sponsored and Russian insured vessels. ?! By : Nadir Mumtaz Worldwide countries maintain fleets in the Public or Private sector or hybrid depending on the geography and craving of sovereign assertiveness. Cargo preferential…
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Nadir Mumtaz writes : Transporting Copper from Russia’s Udokan Mine and Minimizing Carbon Footprint
By : Nadir Mumtaz (Maritime Analyst) USM Holding 49 % of which is owned by the Russian and Uzbek billionaire Alisher Usmanov commenced construction phase work at Udokan mine after obtaining licenses in the year 2008. The mine is scheduled to become operational in the year 2023 . Located in…
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Nadir Mumtaz write : Red Sea Coastal Development and Coral Reefs
By : Nadir Mumtaz Maritime Analyst Coral reefs underly ocean biodiversity and contribute significantly in the economic, social, touristic and cultural scope . The extent of biodiversity of coral reefs incorporating a multitude of symbiotic relationships , encompasses 285,000 km2 covering less then 0.1 % of the ocean exterior. Coral…
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Nadir Mumtaz write : Balancing Divergent Maritime Claims of Republic of China
By : Nadir Mumtaz (Maritime Analyst) In the last two decades there has been a tremendous development in maritime logistics, shipping and trade accompanied by advancement in technology , concern about exploitation of oceanic resources and a massive increase in the tonnage of sea going vessels. Almost 80 % of…
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