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| Container cargo rollovers at major ports increase 75% in December |
Average rollover rates at ports surveyed by Ocean Insights increased to 37% in December and in some ports went past the 50% mark. The level of rollovers is calculated on the basis of percentage of cargo from a line that left port on a different vessel than originally scheduled.
The figures from Ocean Insights illustrate the impact the collapse in demand in the first half of last year followed by a 30% surge in demand in the second half of 2020, and a resulting shortage of containers that has left shippers scrambled for equipment to ship their goods in.
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| Philippines: Marino-Amosup agreement grants govt hospital access to seafarers |
Seafarers and their families will soon have access to government hospital facilities, among others welfare assistance, following a Memorandum of Agreement signed between Marino Party-list and the Associated Marine Officers and Seamens Union of the Philippines (Amosup) on Tuesday, January 19.
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| 23 Stranded Seafarers From MV Jag Anand Stuck In China Reaches Japan |
After much delay, the ship MV Jag Anand with 23 Indian sailors who were stranded in Chinese waters for months due to Australian Coal Cargo ban has finally arrived in Tokyo. The seafarers will fly back to India tonight after they clear COVID procedures.
The Indian sailors were stuck in Jingtang port since June last year. Another group of Indian sailors are still stranded on a foreign ship MV Anastasia with a similar fate.
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| Philippines: DOTr temporarily bans crew change for non-Pinoy seafarers. |
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) extended the ban on all disembarking foreign nationals at any of the countrys crew change hubs to prevent the entry of the new coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) variants through the ports.
The seafarers, meanwhile, only involved those whose vessels called at any of the 37-flagged countries within 14 days immediately preceding their arrival at any of the hubs.
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| ICS Calls for Vaccine Priority for Seafarers and Frontline Workers |
The International Chamber of Shipping is calling for governments to put seafarers and frontline maritime shore workers at the head of the vaccine queue and to designate seafarers as key workers, to avoid a repeat of the challenges seafarers faced in 2020.
ICS is demanding that governments, who are once again restricting travel as a reaction to new COVID-19 mutations, recognize the vital role seafarers play in the global supply chain.
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| The challenge of integrating automation on ships |
Automation has been gaining traction among shipowners as an enabler of greater efficiency and cost savings. However, the president of Hoglund Marine Solutions Borge Nogva believes that the industry is still a long way from exploiting its great potential.
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| LNG tanker damaged while transiting Northern Sea Route |
LNG tanker NIKOLAY EVGENOV with LNG shipment from Sabetta, Yamal, Russia, bound for China, was transiting Northern Sea Route, Russian Arctic, in the wake of LNG tanker CHRISTOPHE DE MARGERIE, carrying the first lot. Both tankers were transiting NSR without icebreakers, in record-low temperatures, and record breaking time of the year, in January.
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| Offshore supply ship driftied onto breakwater, Gulf of Siam |
Offshore supply vessel SETIA KILAS drifted onto breakwater at Kuala Terengganu port, easte coast of Malaysia Peninsula, Gulf of Siam, in the morning Jan 18, after her engine failed. Vessel was undergoing sea trials with 7 crew and 3 contractors on board, all of them left the vessel and are safe. SETIA KILAS is to be refloated as soon as weather permits and salvor is contracted.
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| Port of Oakland gets its tallest cranes |
Recently, the Port of Oakland saw the arrival of the heavy-lifting vessel ZHEN HUA 35 (formerly: ZIRKU). Onboard were the largest cranes the American port had ever seen.
Stevedoring Services of America (SSA), operating the Oakland International Container Terminal (OICT) made arrangements for these humongous structures to be installed in the terminal, ordering 3 cranes from Shanghai s ZPMC.
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