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Canada Border Services Agency urged by shipping industry coalition to enhance trade facilitation
By Leo Ryan, Editor While the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has traditionally focused on security, it must now prioritize trade facilitation as well by
CIB to finance $60.7M in first indigenous-led port logistics facility in BC
Prince Rupert – The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) reached financial close on a $60.7 million loan to help the Metlakatla Development Corporation (MDC) and the Prince Rupert
Americold to build a $80M cold storage facility in Port Saint John
Atlanta-based Americold Realty Trust, a global leader in temperature-controlled logistics, real estate, and value-added services focused on the ownership, operation, acquisition, and development of temperature-controlled
Chambers of Commerce of Québec and Lévis announce support for QSL container project
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Quebec (CCIQ) and the Greater Lévis Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIGL) have announced their support for a
Polar Marine Seminar offered a wide-ranging agenda
A wide-ranging agenda on Polar specific measures was discussed at the January 24-25 Polar Marine Seminar jointly sponsored by IMO and Norway’s Chairship of the
CN Reaches New Tentative Collective Agreement with IBEW
CN announced today that a new tentative four-year collective agreement has been reached with the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers (IBEW), thereby averting a strike
A new summit for the Port of Sept-Îles: 38.5MT in 2024
At its cocktail reception at the beginning of the year, the Port of Sept-Îles (PSI) revealed that it had reached a tonnage record for the
Denmark allocates US$2 billion to boosting Arctic and North Atlantic defence amidst rising security concerns
Denmark today announced a new agreement between the country’s political ;parties regarding strengthening military presence in the Arctic and North Atlantic regions. This first agreement
Coast Guard vessels free Manitoulin from thick Lake Erie ice
The Manitoulin, a bulk carrier operated by Lower Lakes Towing of Port Dover, Ontario, was heading for winter lay-up at Sarnia upon being being freed
Severe climatic events increasing risk to inland waterway operations
There are alarming warning signs, says international freight and cargo handling insurer TT Club, that severe climatic events are already impacting inland waterway operations and
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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
Collaborative technologies for maritime transport at economies of scale (Forum)
by Mikael Lind, Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), Adam Roark, AWS Transportation & Logistics, Amazon, Michele Sancricca, AWS Transportation & Logistics, Amazon, Almir Zerem, RISE,