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WISTA celebrates 50th anniversary of strengthening the role of women in global shipping
At its 50th anniversary conference held last week in Limassol, Cyprus, WISTA International celebrated five decades of progress in advancing the role of women in
SeaTac Marine delivers homes via barge to Hawaii for Lahaina fire survivors
SeaTac Marine Services announce that they have completed an ocean transit move of 110 housing modules in support of HomeAid Hawaii and their partners for
Alphaliner reports that LNG orders by carriers now significantly overshadow methanol
Concerns over the future availability of green methanol are clearly reflected in carriers’ newbuilding orders this year, according to the latest report by Alphaliner. After
Labour Minister proposes special mediator in Montreal docker conflict
Federal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon has proposed the appointment of a special mediator to seek to break the deadlock in negotiations between the Maritime Employers
OMC selects Premier Doug Ford as first recipient of Ontario Marine Champion Award
The Ontario Marine Council (OMC) today announced the inaugural recipient of its “Ontario Marine Champion” Award, which recognizes outstanding leadership and commitment to advancing marine shipping in
Ports of Indiana launches biggest cargo operation on Ohio River
Ports of Indiana has launched a new business venture called Indiana River & Rail Terminals, the largest general cargo operation on the Ohio River. The business
DP World investment aims to make London the biggest port in Britain
Global logistics giant DP World has announced a £1bn (US1.3 billion) expansion of London Gateway to make it Britain’s largest container port within five years
Unprecedented improvements of air quality at San Pedro Bay ports
Long Beach, CA – Significant air quality improvements at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles continued in 2023 as a result of maritime
Global trade forecast by WTO to increase 3% in 2025
Global goods trade is projected to post a 2.7% increase in 2024, up slightly from the previous estimate of 2.6%, economists at the World Trade
Port of Montreal evokes negative impact of docker overtime ban
The Port of Montreal today warned that an overtime ban initiated by dockers could slow down or disrupt the handling of 50% of the goods
Our Forum
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,
Melting sea ice makes Canada more, not less dependent on Icebreakers (Forum)
Climate change leads to more sea ice and higher risks for commercial marine shipping For more than ten months of the year, Canada’s Arctic is
New technology may weaken seafarers’ professional judgment (Forum)
By Guro Kulset Merakerås A good sailor has traditionally been a person who makes decisions that ensure that their ship, cargo and crew are