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Global demand driving increased grain shipments through Great Lakes/St. Lawrence ports
By Julie Gedeon Great Lakes and St. Lawrence ports are bustling this spring to deliver the last of 2022’s strong harvests. And at the same
Wind farms now dominate power source for UK electricity grid
For the first time, Britain’s wind farms are generating more electricity than gas-fired power stations. This was disclosed in findings covering the first three
Desgagnés acquires Valport Maritime Services
Québec City – Desgagnés announced today it is expanding and has completed the acquisition of Valport Maritime Services Inc., a company specialized in cargo handling
Canadian government announces funding for Windsor terminal expansion
The Minister of Transport, Omar Alghabra, today announced an investment of up to $12.5 million to the Essex Terminal Railway Company, from the National Trade Corridors Fund,
Biggest containership in world calls at Port of Antwerp-Bruges
The ship can carry 24 346 TEU (20-foot containers). The MSC Loreto is not only the largest ship ever to call at the port,
Canada investing $2.5 billion in modernizing coast guard small vessel fleet
Joyce Murray, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, has announced a major investment to fund the completion of the renewal
Fednav’s Paul Pathy elected President Designate of BIMCO
By Leo Ryan, Editor Maritime Magazine Paul Pathy, President and CEO of Fednav International Ltd, has been elected as President Designate of BIMCO, it was
Cap Saint-Laurent catalogue launched
To mark Quebec’s maritime sector conference, the Assises québécoises du secteur maritime, on May 9, 2023, CargoM, the Logistics and Transportation Metropolitan Cluster of Montreal, and Sodes, the
Transport Canada invests in Port Weller Dry Docks Cargo Terminal Project
St. Catharines, ON – The federal Minister of Transport, Omar Alghabra, has announced an investment of up to $5.2 million, under the National Trade Corridors Fund,
ACL receives U.S. Coast Guard QUALSHIP 21 certification for its entire fleet of vessels
ACL has announced that the U.S. Coast Guard has awarded a QUALSHIP 21 certificate to its entire fleet of container/RORO vessels: Atlantic Star, Atlantic
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