Pegasus Airlines CEO, Mehmet Nane, has been elected as Chair of the Audit Committee of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) by the members of the IATA Board of Governors. Nane will serve as the Chair of the Audit Committee for a three-year term, which began on 19 January 2021. “The global aviation industry is […]
In this episode of The Maritime Executive Magazine podcast series, editor in chief Tony Munoz spoke with Port Tampa Bay CEO Paul Anderson about how the maritime industry kept goods moving through the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Port Tampa Bay is a diversified operation, serving cruise lines, fuel and petroleum shipping, container shipping […]
When Covid-19 hit in early 2020, countries rushed to contain the infection by closing borders, shutting down industries and restricting movements. At the height of the pandemic, businesses faced tight lockdowns and factories were closed. But essential services were still allowed to operate. Freight forwarding and logistics functioned with permits as governments realized that, while […]
Survey ship HMS Echo has investigated shipwrecks at the heart of two of the greatest losses of life at sea in history. Devonport-based Echo has been on operations in the Baltic and recently studied the wrecks of Second World War vessels Wilhelm Gustloff and Goya. More than 16,000 people perished when they were sunk in Germany’s Operation Hannibal […]
On Friday night, the Peterhead RNLI lifeboat crew launched in foul weather conditions to rescue a 160 tonne fishing vessel which was about to run aground on the rocks at Peterhead’s harbor breakwater. At about 1630 hours, HM Coastguard received an alert of an emergency situation at the harbor entrance. A fishing vessel was towing […]
[By Pavel Toropov] Corals rely on symbiotic algae to provide most of their food via photosynthesis. At the same time, the coral protects the algae within the tissues beneath its hard limestone skeleton, and exhales carbon dioxide that fuels further photosynthesis. Ocean warming threatens this ancient symbiotic cycle mainly by disturbing the algae species, which tend […]
On Saturday night, the product tanker Sea Phantom was boarded by pirates about 115 nm off the coast of Cameroon in the Gulf of Guinea. According to Dryad Global, she was making about 13 knots on an easterly course, then took evasive maneuvers. She is currently adrift. Security agency Ambrey put the vessel’s position closer to […]
NATO knows it must help create and develop its own workforce for tomorrow. That’s why the scientists, engineers and technicians at the NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) in La Spezia, Italy, are looking for the next generation to take their place, and they’re starting with high school and college students. A part […]
Salvors have resumed operations on the third cut through the hull of the grounded ro/ro Golden Ray after a cutting chain joining link failed, interrupting progress. A joining link used to connect the chain to the rigging’s pulley system failed on Wednesday, and the chain fell down into the cutting groove in the wreck’s topsides. […]
In July 2019, Maritime Executive carried a commentary suggesting possible application of vanadium flow batteries for vessel propulsion. More recently, companies from Germany and the Netherlands have expressed in further developing vanadium flow battery technology for large vehicle propulsion applications. Their interest offers the possibility of an expanded system involving several modes of large transportation vehicles. Introduction […]
The Cyprus Shipping Chamber, as the trade association of the Shipping Industry in Cyprus, signed the Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew Change, together with a number of its Member-Companies and joined the worldwide call to action to end the unprecedented crew change crisis caused by Covid-19. The Cyprus Shipping Community, once again sent […]
GAC, one of the largest integrated providers of shipping, logistics and marine services in the region and the world, has signed an agreement with Qatar Free Zones Authority (QFZA) to establish a contract logistics facility and office in the Ras Bufontas Free Zone. The agreement with GAC will play an important role in expanding the […]
