TCS Worldwide has teamed up with Neutral Air Partner and joined its time-critical group NAX 24-7 Time Critical. TCS Worldwide is a Dutch company, based at Schiphol Airport. The company is led by founder Sander van Woesik, a cargo aviation professional with more than 40 years of experience, who knows the added value of time-critical […]
United Cargo has announced that it is expanding its TempControl air cargo container offering by becoming the first North American carrier to approve Envirotainer’s Releye RLP container. The Releye RLP is a state-of-the-art temperature-controlled air cargo container that meets the precise requirements of pharmaceutical air freight and is designed for both short-and long-distance hauls. With […]
[By Douglas Stenton, Anne Keenleyside, Robert W. Park and Stephen Fratpietro] It has been 176 years since the 1845 Franklin Northwest Passage expedition, and its catastrophic outcome — the loss of the discovery ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and all 129 officers and crew — continues to fascinate. Three years into the attempt to […]
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has issued a report on its investigation into Equinor’s challenges with the construction of the future FPSO for its Johan Castberg field. The floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility is being built by Singaporean yard Sembcorp Marine, and the project has been dogged by serious issues with weld […]
[By Scott T. Price, Chief Historian, United States Coast Guard] On July 17, 1942, at the age of 18, Eugene Edwin Oxley, enlisted in the United States Coast Guard. Two years later, he would distinguish himself on D-Day, earn the nickname “Lucky Ox,” and receive the Silver Star Medal for combat heroism. Hailing from the […]
The Sri Lankan Navy has recovered the voyage data recorder (VDR) from the wreck of the container ship X-Press Pearl, which partially sank last week after a devastating cargo fire off the coast of Colombo. The X-Press Pearl was anchored before and during the fire, and her crew was evacuated from the ship May 25. […]
On Saturday evening, the U.S. Coast Guard, New York City Fire Department and New York City Police Department helped rescue the passengers of a fast ferry that had gone aground just off Brooklyn. At about 1617 hours on Saturday, the Coast Guard Sector New York command center received a report that the 150-foot Seastreak ferry […]
[By Fermín Koop] With more than 41 percent of its waters already covered by marine protected areas (MPAs), Chile has proposed creating a high seas MPA on the Salas and Gomez and Nazca ridges – two underwater mountain chains that stretch 2,900 kilometers across the south-eastern Pacific and host some of the ocean’s greatest biodiversity. […]
Captain Gennadiy Gavrylov, the former master of the floating armory Avant Garde, has returned home after six years of detention in Sri Lanka, according to the Marine Transport Workers’ Trade Union of Ukraine (MTWTU). The armory vessel Avant Garde was arrested in the port of Galle, Sri Lanka in October 2015. At the time, the […]
The head of number-two ocean carrier MSC, Soren Toft, has broken with former boss Soren Skou over the question of a carbon tax for shipping. In a carefully-written statement issued Friday, Toft signaled support for an industry-backed $2 per tonne bunker levy and cast doubt on the effectiveness of a carbon tax until more carbon-neutral […]
Ahead of the adoption of the EU’s FuelEU Maritime initiative, which aims to increase the use of sustainable alternative fuels in European shipping and ports, a new study raises concerns about the global implications and potential negative effects on shipowners. The study, commissioned by the European Community Shipowners’ Associations and the International Chamber of Shipping, […]
The UN Security Council was briefed on the situation in Yemen with the decaying offshore oil storage tanker and the ongoing delays to reach an agreement to undertake a comprehensive inspection and perform light maintenance to defer the potential for a humanitarian and environmental crisis in the region. Warned of the devastating consequences for the […]
