Teleport, the logistics tech venture of AirAsia has partnered with Cainiao, the logistics arm of Alibaba, announced it will deliver cross-border orders made on Tmall Taobao, Alibaba’s e-commerce platform. The partnership will initially start from Shenzhen and Canton in China to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah; the main hub in East Malaysia. Through this partnership with Cainiao, […]
The U.S. Coast Guard has launched an investigation into the circumstances of an allision between a barge and a bridge span on the Intracoastal Waterway near Chesapeake, Virginia. On Saturday morning at about 0445 hours, a barge struck the end of a swing bridge on the Centerville Turnpike, about 10 miles south of Norfolk. Photos from […]
Beginning over a decade ago in response to powerful winds destroying wind turbines, Japanese researchers began developing wind turbines capable of operating during typhoon force winds. More recently, General Electric has begun developing typhoon capable wind turbines. There is potential to adapt some typhoon capable wind turbines to maritime propulsion and especially for sailing directly into […]
Sunday, November 15 saw the signing of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in a virtual ceremony on the sidelines of the annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit. China and 14 other countries have agreed to form the world’s largest free trade bloc, encompassing nearly a third of all economic activity, in a trade […]
Just one month after oil major Chevron acquired independent producer Noble Energy, Israeli officials have slapped the company’s Leviathan platform with a $1.1 million fine for “blatant violations” of water pollution regulations. According to Israel’s Ministry of Environmental Protection, Noble’s Leviathan gas platform obtained a permit to discharge process water into the sea when it […]
Next year marks the beginning of what the United Nations hopes will be a pivotal decade for the global ocean. The UN is mounting a massive operation to try to raise awareness of the many problems it faces, and to harness the scientific research needed to solve them. Called the UN Decade of Ocean Science […]
[Brief] On Saturday morning, a German-owned car carrier rescued three sailors from a yacht in distress off Bermuda. Watchstanders at the U.S. Coast Guard’s 5th District Command Center received a call from the Bermuda Rescue Coordination Center, which reported that an EPIRB had been activated aboard the sailing vessel Esmeralda. The captain of the yacht told […]
On Sunday morning, 15 foreign nationals were arrested by federal agents near Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s private club in Palm Beach, Florida. According to Chief Patrol Agent John R. Madlin from the U.S. Border Patrol’s Miami Sector, the individuals were involved in an unspecified “maritime smuggling event.” The number and nationality of the perpetrators – […]
[By Elliott Zaagman] A man who has earned a reputation for compromise and dealmaking over his half-century in Washington, Joe Biden has also won the presidency by presenting himself as a national unifier, while simultaneously putting forward a policy agenda that some consider to be the most progressive in American history. Presidential campaigns promising more than they […]
The U.S. Navy and Royal Navy are joining forces for hurricane relief in Honduras, which was hit hard by Hurricane Eta and is now in the path of Tropical Storm Iota – the record-breaking 30th named storm of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. Iota is expected to reach major hurricane status before making landfall near […]
In a stunning move, the Mi’kmaq First Nations Coalition has partnered with a B.C.-based distributor to buy Clearwater Seafoods, the largest producer of shellfish in North America. Clearwater also happens to be one of the largest buyers of lobster in Nova Scotia, where one Mi’kmaq first nation has encountered fierce (and sometimes violent) local resistance […]
The Caribbean’s first cruise in more than seven months remains suspended while the company and local officials work to manage the reported outbreak of the coronavirus and keep the passengers comfortable. The situation remains fluid with the passengers reporting they are being well looked after but waiting for more definitive word on what will transpire. […]
