Half way through the year, it seems the only way is up for forwarding heavyweight Kuehne+Nagel. The Switzerland headquartered logistics provider was awarded best forwarder of the year 2021 back in May at ACW’s World Air Cargo Awards, demonstrating popularity and service satisfaction amongst customers. The figures also reflect this success. In the first quarter […]
On Saturday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Sazlidere Bridge, part of the Northern Marmara Highway project. Erdogan described it as the long-awaited launch of construction for the massive Kanal Istanbul project, which would cut a bypass route from the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, paralleling the Bosporus. […]
On Thursday, a suspect stole a boat from a dinner cruise operator in Seattle and headed north, broadcasting bomb and hostage threats on VHF Channel 16. An employee from Argosy Cruises contacted Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound watchstanders at about 0750 hours Thursday to report that one of their boats, the launch Beaver, had been […]
A set of Royal Navy planning documents for HMS Defender’s recent freedom of navigation operation off Crimea were discovered by a passerby at a bus stop in Kent, according to the BBC. A member of the public found the crumpled and wet packet of documents early Tuesday morning, and the individual – who wished to […]
[By Christina Benjaminsen] All over the world, fishing nets are one of the most widely used items of fishing gear. “These nets are very important to the global fishing industry because they are easy to use, have high catch efficiency and represent a low upfront investment for fishing operators”, says researcher at SINTEF, Christian Karl. “Sadly, large […]
The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) has formally commissioned its first Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS), HMCS Harry DeWolf, the first vessel delivered under Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy. The Harry DeWolf-class is intended to bolster the RCN’s presence in the Arctic and increase its ability to operate globally. Specifically designed to patrol Canada’s northernmost regions and […]
[By James Caponiti] From its earliest days when the American colonies were dependent on trade with Europe, the United States has been reliant on merchant shipping. During the fight for independence beginning in 1775, an effective American strategy was to arm merchant ships to disrupt the British supply chain of ships along the eastern seaboard […]
Last week, after a coordinated social media campaign to raise support for an anti-wind-farm movement, a flotilla of French fishing vessels surrounded the offshore support vessel Aethra at a position near the future Saint-Brieuc wind installation. The Aethra was off the coast of Brittany, conducting repair work on electrical cables for connecting the future wind […]
The icebreaker HMS Protector has sailed closer to the North Pole than any other Royal Navy ship in history on her first patrol of the Arctic. The survey and research ship crunched her way through polar ice to within 570 nm of the top of the world as she gathered data about the ocean and […]
The World Maritime University (WMU) and the ITF Seafarers’ Trust are delighted to announce that as of 25 June 2021, the ground-breaking online Maritime Welfare Professional Development Programme (MARI-WEL) is to be offered free of charge in recognition of the Day of the Seafarer and the ongoing sacrifices seafarers are making during the COVID-19 pandemic. This year’s […]
Despite the recent flurry of construction orders coming primarily in the containership and gas carrier segments, BIMCO in its new analysis of global shipbuilding in forecasting a slowing growth rate for the world’s fleet in the next five years compared to the last five years. The shipping trade association points to the fact that despite […]
French ro/pax ferry operator La Méridionale is launching a new (and possibly unprecedented) trial of exhaust gas cleaning technology aboard the vessel La Piana. It has signed a contract with Austrian manufacturer ANDRITZ to test out a combination of dry scrubber SOx and PM removal plus urea / catalyst based NOx removal – all in […]
