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COVID testing accord reached for CCG crew members being deployed from Québec City to Arctic
By Leo Ryan, Editor Responding to questions from Maritime Magazine, the Canadian Coast Guard disclosed that an agreement has been reached with the provincial health authorities
Many vessels not complying with whale protection slowdown orders
OTTAWA – During a week in May, 72 percent of vessels were observed exceeding a voluntary 10 knot slowdown through the Cabot Strait, a key
More than 100 companies support the development of Laurentia project at Port of Québec
QUÉBEC, QC- More than one hundred companies have given their support to the development of Laurentia, the Port of Québec’s $775 million deep-water container terminal
Fednav receives the Blue Circle Award 2019
Vancouver, British Colombia– Fednav Limited is delighted to have been awarded the Port of Vancouver’s 2019 Blue Circle Award for the EcoAction program, showcasing the
Canadian Coast Guard assures “extraordinary measures” precede start of Arctic shipping season
By Leo Ryan, Editor The Canadian Coast Guard stresses that it has applied “extraordinary measures” amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in advance of the 2020 Arctic
St. Lawrence Shipoperators is saddened by the death of the humpback whale discovered in the St. Lawrence River (in French)
Photo: Réseau québécois d’urgences pour les mammifères marins Québec, le 11 juin 2020 – Armateurs du Saint-Laurent (ASL), l’association représentant les transporteurs maritimes québécois est
Fratianni of MGT chairs new board of Green Marine
Michael Fratianni, President of Montreal Gateway Terminals Partnership (MGT), was elected new Chair of the new board of Green Marine at its Annual General Meeting.
Seaway cargo volumes impacted by COVID-19
While St. Lawrence Seaway cargo volumes decreased during the past two months due to economic shifts related to COVID-19, industry leaders said the binational trade
Stena Bulk presents a prototype of the next-generation product and chemical tanker
IMOFlexMAX by Stena Bulk Swedish company Stena Bulk, one of the world’s leading tanker shipping companies, presented today a prototype of the next-generation product and
Support crew changeovers and keep ports/ships running urge UN entities
The world’s reliance on maritime transport makes it more important than ever to keep ships moving, ports open and cross-border trade flowing, and to support
Our Forum
On our Forum: The real cause of the supply chain quagmires…
By Michael Grey* It is funny how different items of news mesh with each other. Cop 26 is over, thank goodness and the thousands of
On our Forum: Shipmasters deserve greatest respect for difficult decisions made in stormy conditions
By Michael Grey* In this world where virtue-signalling competes with the need to blame everyone, maybe we should not be surprised at the growing enthusiasm
On our Forum
The shipping industry needs to set ambitious targets to help prevent global climate catastrophe, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) cautions in a new position
On our Forum: Seafarers and truckers: supply chain’s most vulnerable providers
By Michael Grey* “Am I a man – or an animal?” This was a question dramatically posed by a huge Sicilian lorry driver on a
On our Forum: Stranger than fiction in a world ‘not far short of chaos’
By Michael Grey* Will what we used to think of as “normal” ever return? Black swans used to be rare, but now they are coming
The many challenges to one-man bridge operations (Forum)
By Michael Grey* The results of an inquest in the UK on the deaths caused by a tram coming off the rails gave one
Carbon recycled methane can be recognized as zero-emission ship fuel according to new study (Forum)
The “Ship Carbon Recycling Working Group (WG)” of Japan’s Carbon Capture & Reuse (CCR) Study Group has confirmed that carbon recycled methane produced by
Marine salvage expertise must not decline… (Forum)
By Michael Grey* These are tough times for the professional salvor, with concern being expressed about weak revenues and worries about capacity. To the casual
Of congestion, ships and crews
I have always been terribly enthused by Oliver St.John Gogarty’s poem The Ship and its first stanza – “A ship from Valparaiso came/ And
Justifying the unjustifiable on inhuman seafarer crisis… (forum)
By Michael Grey* Nobody should be surprised that there has been something of a fight back by ship operators after the World Maritime
Shipping’s nightmare with the Gulf of Guinea pirates (Forum)
By Michael Grey* There will be few seafarers today who sail off to the Gulf of Guinea with a light heart and cheerful demeanour,
A Captain caught after a slaughter at sea (Forum)
Taiwanese Ping Shin 101 on which occurred the murders at sea described in this gut wretching article by investigative reporter Ian Urbina*. Photo Credit: Fish-I Africa The men are helpless
Clean Shipping Alliance scrubs away at ICCT report on Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems
Following the release of a report by environmental group ICCT, the Clean Shipping Alliance expresses its concern about the wrong perception of Exhaust Gas
80% of ports do not reap the benefits of digitalization according to Innovez-One (Forum)
Innovez One, one of the world’s leading providers of port management software for the world’s busiest ports and towage operators, stated that of the
Five percent zero emission fuels by 2030 needed for Paris-aligned shipping decarbonization (Forum)
The ambition of the Getting to Zero Coalition is to have commercially viable zero emission vessels operating along deep sea trade routes by 2030.
The Mask of Cassandra (Forum)
By Michael Grey* Nearly a year into the wretched pandemic and it is difficult to determine any real cheer amid the winter snow. Some
Provincial government investments should give priority to Made in Canada ships (FORUM)
Ottawa – The Canadian Marine Industries and Shipbuilding Association (CMISA) has expressed concern over provincial governments ordering vessels overseas rather than giving such business to
The Poseidon Principles Disclosure Report is good, but the disclosure could have been better (Forum)
In December 2020, the signatories of the Poseidon Principles—currently twenty large banks—released their first Annual Disclosure Report. As the first paragraph of the report says:
World Shipping Council pleads for more collaboration to mitigate Covid-19 challenges (Forum)
Ocean carriers are taking all available measures to improve the speed and efficiency of cargo movement including employing all available vessel tonnage says the World
The ongoing seafarer crisis: do charterers have hearts? (FORUM)
Widely regarded as the senior statesman of world shipping journalism, Michael Grey* offers in our FORUM section, another impassioned commentary and an urgent suggestion for
Tailwinds of 2020 (Forum)
Shipping has faced some historically significant challenges this year, we opened the year with IMO 2020, the greatest change in fuel regulation in this