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| India: Cargo Traffic At Major Ports Rises By 11.43 % In August |
Cargo traffic at the country”s major ports rose by 11.43 per cent to 57.59 million tons in August over the year-ago period, according to an industry body. The country”s 12 major ports had handled 51.68 million tons of cargo in August last fiscal, Indian Ports Association (IPA) said in a statement... -Bunker Ports News
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| Indian Ship Manager Confirms Violent Attack on OSV in Gabon |
Additional information came out regarding the attack on an OSV in Gabon over the weekend. Details suggest that, unlike typical piracy attacks, the vessel may have been targeted with local authorities investigating people that were hired onshore to provide services to the vessel in the anchorage. Family members of the crew along with a representative of the management company Proactive Ship Management based in Mumbai speaking to the IANS confirmed the violent nature of the attack. The Maritime Executive
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| ILA Says Union Will Not Service Automated Ships Without Crews |
In its ongoing efforts to resist all forms of automation in the maritime world, the powerful U.S. International Longshoremen’s Association announced that its members would not service automated vessels operating without crews. Citing issues of safety and security the union has long fought automation and even before that resisted the move to containerization... -The Maritime Executive
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| Anti-piracy war pays off, Kenya maritime waters declared safe for trade |
Kenya maritime waters within the Indian Ocean is now expected to witness increased trade activities following the re-designation from High-Risk Area by the fifth edition of Best Management Practices to deter piracy also known as BMP-5. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the move by the global shipping industry is expected to save Kenya and East Africa millions of dollars in insurance and security related expenses... -Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
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| NYK Testing AI-powered Collision Avoidance System |
Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) is testing a navigation and collision avoidance system in another step toward autonomous cargo ship operations. NYK and MTI Co. Ltd. (MTI) have installed Orca AI’s Automatic Ship Target Recognition System onto an NYK Group ship to assess the system’s ability to automatically recognize dangerous targets... -MarineLink
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| Super Typhoon "Chanthu" Rapidly Intensifies Over Western Pacific |
yphoon Chanthu rapidly intensified has from a tropical depression to a Category 4 super typhoon over the north-western Pacific Ocean with maximum sustained winds of 135 knots (155 mph). On its forecasted track, the storm is expected to continue to move to the northwest towards Taiwan’s southern coast on Saturday before slamming into eastern China... -gCaptain
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| Hurricane Larry Producing Seas of Up to 13 Meters in Western Atlantic |
Hurricane Larry continues to be a large and powerful Category 2 hurricane that is producing dangerous swells along western Atlantic coasts and seas of up to 45 feet. At 11 a.m. AST, the center of Hurricane Larry was located over the central Atlantic Ocean about 500 miles (805 km) southeast of Bermuda, according to the NWS National Hurricane Center... -gCaptain
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| Port of New Orleans Resumes Container Cargo Operations Nine Days After Ida |
The Port of New Orleans resumed container operations on Tuesday nine days after Hurricane Ida made landfall in southeast Louisiana as a category 4 storm. The first two ships worked at the Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal were the MSC Charleston at New Orleans Terminal and the Hapag Lloyd CSL Manhattan at Ports America... -gCaptain
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| Euroseas Reveals Staggering $200,000 Per Day Charter for Panamax Containership |
Athens-based Euroseas Ltd. say it has entered into a new record-setting time charter contract for its 2009-built panamax capacity MV Synergy Oakland for a mind-boggling $200,000 per day rate. The minimum two-month (60 day) contract is expected to commence in the second half of October when the 4,250 TEU capacity vessel is redelivered from its current charter... -gCaptain
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| Japan completes fleet operation center for crewless autonomous surface ships |
Thirty Japanese companies have completed the construction of a fleet operation center (FOC) in Makuhari, Chiba city, to provide onshore support for crewless maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS). The FOC is part of a comprehensive system that covers the functions required for the operation of crewless autonomous ships... -Offshore Energy
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| Asian Dry Bulk Owners to Carry Containers Onboard As Containership Demands Skyrocket |
Amidst the worsening crisis of container shortage in the industry, Asian dry bulk owners have taken a lead in turning it into an opportunity. Soaring profits have attracted dry bulk carriers in Asia to accept and transport containers onboard, setting new trends. Singapore-based Swire Bulk is among the few initial bulk owners to adapt to trends, with increasingly moving containers through its dedicated fleet of bulk carriers... -Fleetmon
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