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Solo sailor quits Navy to get closer to sea
On Sunday, Commander Abhilash Tomy shared on social media The Moment, a poem by Margaret Atwood, on the moment of realisation after many voyages and years of toil that it was things/ beings around you that made you what you are, as he hung up the uniform after 24 years of service in the Navy. He thanked the naval fraternity, those who sailed along, for doing that. But a sailor hardly leaves the sea.Posted On:12-Jan-2021
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Administering the COVID-19 Vaccine in the Maritime Industry
As two historic vaccines undergo distribution to slow the spread of COVID-19, the maritime industry must confront the unique operational obstacles we face in administering them. Our sector is a vital pillar of the global economy. Our mariners are essential to supply chains in critical products like food and energy.Posted On:12-Jan-2021
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Pacific International Pleads Guilty and Fined in U.S. Pollution Case
For the second time in two months, the U.S. Attorney General s office has obtained a guilty plea from a shipping company for knowingly discharging waste oil or oily water into U.S. harbors. One case was on the U.S. East Coast and the other was in Guam, but in both instances, a Singapore-based shipping company admitted to knowingly polluting the waters and attempting to hide their actions through falsified records.Posted On:12-Jan-2021
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Russia thanks local Merchant Marine veterans for WWII Murmansk convoys
Winston Churchill described it as the "worst journey in the world," and two local Merchant Marine veterans in their 90s are among the last left in the U.S. to have endured it.
These were the World War II Arctic convoys to the Russian ports of Murmansk and Archangel to supply the USSR with materials to carry on its fight for survival against Nazi Germany.Posted On:12-Jan-2021
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Covid-19: Cargo traffic at 12 Indian major ports falls for 9th month in December
Impacted by COVID-19 pandemic, Indias top 12 ports witnessed a considerable decline in cargo traffic for the ninth straight month in December to 478 million tonnes (MT), according to ports apex body IPA.
Cargo traffic at 12 major ports that are under the control of the Centre dropped by 8.80 per cent to 477.75 million tonnes (MT) during April-December this fiscal compared to 523.84 MT in the same period last financial year.Posted On:12-Jan-2021
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JNPT container traffic reaches 2-year high in December
Container traffic at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust spiked 9.9 per cent to 4,59,920 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent unit) in December 2020 as compared to the year-ago period, the port operator said on Monday.
The overall traffic at the port grew 10.04 per cent to 6.37 million tons in the previous month from the 5.79 million tons handled in December-2019, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) said in a release.Posted On:12-Jan-2021
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Passenger Vessels Steering a Course Through Testing Waters
The head of global trade association Interferry reflects on the unprecedented challenges of 2020 and those ahead-but makes a case for cautious optimism.
What a difference a year makes…
In this column last January, I was hailing the worldwide ferry industry s exceptional growth in 2019-marked by soaring tourist traffic and a host of newbuild orders-and eagerly anticipating further advances in 2020.Posted On:12-Jan-2021
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Artificial Intelligence in shipping and how it works
Narrow AI is what we have today. A narrow AI works well for specific tasks, for example identifying cat breeds in photographs, but it’s useless in all other areas. Just as you can t use the camera app on your phone to order something from Amazon, an AI designed to diagnose skin cancer from photographs of moles is completely useless for steering a self-driving car or recommending which movie to watch next.Posted On:12-Jan-2021
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Shortchanging in Filipino seafarers remittances
Filipino seafarers are being shortchanged in the conversion of their dollar remittances to pesos which a blogger described as a "thievery" in the maritime industry.
It is a known practice of some unscrupulous manning agents to shave off at least one or two pesos from the foreign exchange rate, misleadingly calling the cut as "service charges."Posted On:12-Jan-2021
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Freighter lost eucalyptus logs off Spain coast
General cargo ship DAROJA lost part of deck cargo, some 4.5-meter long 200 eucalyptus logs, off Cape Vilan, northwest Spain, Atlantic, early in the morning Jan 10, while en route from Ferrol Spain to Figueira Portgual. Understood cargo loss was caused by rough weather. The ship continued her voyage and reached Figueira, as of morning Jan 11 she was anchored at port s anchorage.Posted On:12-Jan-2021
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Post-Panamax container ship disabled by fire in engine room
The ship is under tow of tug VIRGO (IMO 9276676) in southern Red sea, from King Abdullah Port SA to Dubai, ETA Jan 31. Towage commenced on Jan 8, after understood, completing containers offloading.
Dec 23: Container ship NORTHERN JUBILEE suffered fire in engine room on Dec 18 in Red sea while sailing in southern direction, after transiting Suez Canal.Posted On:12-Jan-2021
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Damaged bulk carrier still in Suez Canal 2 weeks after accident
Bulk carrier CHRISTOS THEO reportedly suffered rudder and propeller damages in Suez Canal below Great Bitter Lake while trying to avoid collision, while transiting Canal in northern direction, in the morning Dec 29. The ship was taken to GBL and anchored, as of Jan 11 she was in the same position, awaiting towage to port of destination Koper Slovenia, to be offloaded and after that, taken to ship repair yard.Posted On:12-Jan-2021
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