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First Indian Female Sailor To Compete At The Olympics |
Nethra Kumanan, 23 year old professional sailor, became the first Indian woman sailor to qualify for the Olympics. She is also the first-ever Indian sailor to get a direct qualification for the Olympics through a qualifying event... -Times Now
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Shipping in short supply, small companies struggle |
Exporters are having a hard time keeping up with orders due to container ship shortages. Izen, a bidet manufacturer with its factory in Gimpo, Gyeonggi, set four 40-feet (12.2 meter) shipping containers in its parking lot in July last year. In them, the company stored bidets — not because there is leftover inventory, but because there are not enough ships to export them... Bunker Ports News
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Indian seafarers who got duped in Iran are living a life of uncertainty |
IN JULY 2019, Aniket Yenpure, 29, and his friend Mandar Worlikar, 26, left Mumbai for Iran to join the crew of the MV Artin 10, an Iran-flagged bulk carrier. Their placement agent, Ajit Singh, had promised them jobs as sailors. Six months later, they were jailed in Chabahar, Iran—where India, Iran and Afghanistan are together developing a port... -THE WEEK
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Belgium steps up its seafarer vaccination campaign |
Belgium is stepping up its seafarer vaccination programme. The European nation, already one of the world’s most proactive states to get crews jabbed, will from Monday up its campaign at its major ports, deploying mobile medical vaccination teams to ships at berth to provide the vaccinations directly on board... -Splash 247
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Seafarer welfare overhaul needed to meet new challenges |
Action needs to be taken now to improve seafarer welfare provision and prepare for the changing welfare needs of crews come 2050, according to a research report... -Seatrade Maritime News
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Nigeria jails 10 pirates over ship hijacking |
A Nigerian court today jailed 10 pirates for 12 years each over the hijacking of a merchant vessel last year, the navy said, in the second such trial under a new anti-piracy law. The pirates, all of them Nigerian, were convicted of hijacking the Chinese merchant ship FV Hailufeng II in the Gulf of Guinea in 2020. RTE.ie
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Ukrainian Citizen Charged as Country’s First Modern-Day Sea Pirate |
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reports that it has detained a Ukrainian citizen on charges of sea piracy, making him the first citizen to be brought up on charges of being a modern-day pirate. The unnamed male suspect was captured by the SBU after returning to Ukraine and attempting to hide his identity... -The Maritime Executive
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New Zealand PM wants to stop foreign fishing boats from changing crews in NL |
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has asked for legal advice on whether she can stop foreign fishing vessels changing crews in New Zealand. In the past month, New Zealand has had to deal with two foreign-flagged fishing boats that, after fishing on the high sea, returned to port for a crew change with positive cases of Covid-19 onboard... -Stuff.co.nz
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Turning to technology to tackle container ship fires |
Identifying the location of the outbreak of a fire onboard a large container ship can be “almost impossible” as it could be in any one of many thousand boxes located either “high up in a stack or buried deep onboard”... - Lloyd s Register
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Port States Target 10,000 Ships in Stability Inspection Campaign |
Shipping authorities will be launched a concentrated inspection campaign this fall focusing on crew familiarity with stability and compliance with stability regulations. The member authorities of the Tokyo and the Paris Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) on Port State Control have jointly agreed to launch the Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on Stability... -The Maritime Executive
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Industry firsts: Berge Bulk ship tests solar panels |
Bulker owner and operator Berge Bulk has launched a pilot test to trial the maritime application of solar technology. The test is being carried out on Berge K2, the company’s 262,600 dwt Capesize ore carrier... -Offshore Energy
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South African port operator Transnet hit by cyber attack |
South Africa’s logistics company Transnet SOC has announced that its IT system was hit with a “disruption” that halted operations at the port’s terminals. The company confirmed that the cyber attack occurred early on Thursday, 22 July and that the source of the problem is being identified... -Offshore Energy
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