City, University of London is changing the name of its Cass Business School following an inquiry into the history of its namesake, the 18th-century merchant Sir John Cass. The Cass Business School is known well in the maritime world for its masters program in shipping, trade and finance. It is also the home of the […]
The Amazon Prime Video series “ZeroZeroZero” shows U.S. viewers an accurate picture of the modern cocaine trade that’s rarely seen on screen. I study cocaine trafficking and U.S. drug policy, and the show reveals three truths that challenge the U.S. government’s justification for its war against cocaine trafficking in Central America and Mexico. 1. Most cocaine […]
On Sunday morning, a fire broke out aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego. The base called for the San Diego Fire Department’s assistance at about 0850 hours. The SDFD classified it as a three-alarm fire and dispatched multiple fire engines to the scene, and as of 1600 hours […]
D-Day, codenamed Operation Neptune, was the largest amphibious landing not only in World War II, but in history. It marked the start of the liberation of German-occupied France (and later western Europe) and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front. But what most people don’t know is that ocean tides played […]
On Saturday, two cargo ships collided head-on in the narrow Welland Canal, a manmade waterway that connects Lake Erie with Lake Ontario. Footage from the scene does not appear to show early action on the part of either ship to alter course. The two vessels struck each other slightly to starboard of the centerline, video from […]
[By Dr. David Brewster] Last month’s clash between Indian and Chinese troops in Ladakh was the most significant conflict between the two countries since 1967. Despite signs of a partial tactical pullback in some places, there is considerable risk of further confrontations and even escalation along the disputed border. Some have been urging the Indian […]
A U.S. Coast Guard aircrew medically evacuated a 26-year-old fisherman Saturday morning from the fishing vessel McKenzie Rose at a position about 100 miles off Coos Bay, Oregon. The fishing vessel’s captain called watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector North Bend on VHF at about 0530 to report that a member of the crew had sustained a head injury and […]
[By David Uren] China is expressing an interest in joining the updated Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade agreement, which was originally designed as the centrepiece of the Obama administration’s ‘pivot to Asia’, intended to cement a non-Chinese Asian regional group. China’s premier Li Keqiang told the National People’s Congress at the end of May that China had […]
In remarks during a visit to U.S. Southern Command headquarters Friday, President Donald Trump said that his administration is working on a plan to procure as many as 10 icebreakers from “a certain place.” “We have under construction right now the largest icebreaker in the world, and we’re going to be trying to get, if […]
Saudi-backed forces destroyed another two bomb boats off the coast of Salif, Yemen on Thursday, according to Saudi coalition spokesman Col. Turki al-Malki. “[The boats] were prepared to imminently execute hostile and terrorist actions in the Bab Al Mandab Strait and Southern Red Sea,” al-Malki told the Saudi Press Agency. He asserted that they posed […]
In a surprise development, the Port of Oakland reported an increase in loaded import volumes in June. Since March and the onset of the global pandemic, the port had seen indications of significant cargo declines but the current increase reversed those trends. Oakland reported that loaded import volume grew 1.9 percent in June compared to the year […]
Despite several high profile incidents recently, a new survey of the container shipping industry by the World Shipping Council (WSC) reports that the incidents of containers lost overboard has been on the decline and is a small percentage of the total annual volume. The WSC also outlines a number of initiatives to further enhance container safety. […]
