ABSG Consulting Inc. (ABS Consulting) has been selected by Prime Tanker Management (Prime) to implement the recently launched Restart Risk Model™ to help resume operations safely at the company’s facility in Athens, Greece, and mitigate COVID-19 risk. ABS Consulting will work with Prime’s Incident Management Team (IMT) virtually to assess the inherent risk of each […]
The IMO’s 2030 and 2050 targets have challenged the maritime industry to find innovative solutions to lower its collective carbon footprint including the utilization of low and zero carbon fuels. As the industry’s more mature fuel option, liquefied natural gas (LNG) combined with new technologies and operational measures can be utilized to meet the 2030 […]
[By Amin Saikal] As the rivalry between the United States and China spirals into a new cold war, it carries the potential to widen and deepen many geopolitical fault lines in world politics. One such fault line is dangerously embedded in the strategically vital, oil-rich, but unstable, Persian Gulf. It divides the Gulf into northern […]
A 31-year-old Australian man has been re-arrested after allegedly jumping bail and attempting to flee the country aboard a bulker. At about 1030 hours on Saturday, a large Newcastle-bound vessel came to the assistance of a yacht that had run into trouble off the coast of Yamba, New South Wales. The ship’s crew secured a […]
A spectacular video shows the moments leading up to a fuel supply vessel sailing at a high rate of speed directly into the breakwater outside the harbor at Marseille, France. According to various reports, the video was shot possibly by a crew member from a different vessel living at the port and later sent to […]
The seafarers’ charity Human Rights at Sea announced Monday that it is working with Dominica’s flag registry to repatriate 22 Indian seafarers aboard the tanker Gulf Sky (ex name Nautic). The vessel is anchored off Port Khor Fakkan in the UAE, and the master has reported that the crew has not been paid in months. According […]
The U.S. Coast Guard and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating an incident during which at least 20 shipping containers fell into the ocean near Hilo, Hawaii. Pictures and accounts of the incident issued on the personal Facebook page of Hawaiian State Senator Kaiali’i Kahele showed numerous containers had fallen over on the barge. […]
The destroyer USS Nitze recently conducted a freedom of navigation operation in waters claimed by Venezuela, according to U.S. Southern Command. The transit would be routine under normal circumstances, but it occurred in roughly the same timeframe that a series of fuel and food shipments was arriving in Venezuela from Iran – a commercial arrangement […]
Drone Delivery Canada (DDC) with the assistance of its sales agent Air Canada, has entered into a commercial agreement with DSV Air & Sea Inc. Canada (DSV), the Canadian arm of the global transport and logistics company DSV Panalpina, to deploy DDC’s drone delivery platform, with the intent for DSV to deliver healthcare-related cargo from […]
DHL has named Justin Baird as the head of its Asia Pacific Innovation Center (APIC) in Singapore. The first dedicated centre for innovative logistics services in Asia Pacific and one of three DHL innovation centers globally, APIC is a test bed for emerging logistics-related technologies and a showcase of the latest innovations to reinvent supply […]
On July 1, 2020, Gebrüder Weiss, the globally active transport and logistics company, will be represented in the Southern hemisphere for the first time with the opening of national subsidiaries in Australia and New Zealand. The future air and sea locations are situated in the Australian major cities of Sydney and Melbourne, as well as […]
Workers suffering serious mental health issues over prospect of job cuts says GMB Union. British Airway’s behaviour as it pulls out of Gatwick Airport amounts to ‘throwing us on the scrapheap, says GMB members. Britain’s flagship carrier announced they are pulling out of Gatwick with threats of hundreds of redundancies and transferring staff to one of its sister companies, Gatwick Ground Services (GGS). […]
