THE Spanish airline has transformed one of its passenger aircraft to a cargo aircraft with the purpose of transporting up to 48 tonnes of sanitarian and humanitarian supplies. Madrid-based Wamos Air has converted an Airbus A330-200 from passenger use to freight movements, creating up to 250 cu m of capacity. The operator is the first […]
GLOBAL cargo capacity has changed substantially in recent months. Although capacity is growing, it is still scarce and not all destinations are served in Air France KLM Martinair Cargo (AFKLMP) scheduled network. Gaps in the network are filled by operating charter services, but not all shipments justify a full-freighter solution. The carrier resolved this by […]
John Menzies, the global aviation services business, has provided an update regarding current trading and its financing position. Trading in Q2 to date has been ahead of management expectations, with a recovery in flight activity anticipated to begin from early July. The board believes the group now has sufficient liquidity capable of supporting the group’s […]
[By Cmdr. Michael Kaplan] While USS Kidd (DDG 100) was deployed to the U.S. Fourth Fleet Area of Responsibility, a Sailor began experiencing COVID-19 symptoms April 20, a month after the ship’s last port call. In the weeks preceding this first positive case onboard, the crew of USS Kidd was already applying the Navy’s COVID-19 […]
14 Ukrainian seafarers who were arrested off Libya in 2017 have finally returned home. None of them were ever formally charged with a crime, but officials in Tripoli held them for more than three years. The Ukrainian crew and their ship, the product tanker Ruta, were intercepted by Libyan Navy forces in April 2017 and detained […]
On Saturday, the U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a man from a fishing vessel about eight miles off San Nicolas Island. At about 1515 hours, Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach received a report of a man having convulsions aboard the fishing vessel. The individual did not have his medication aboard. Watchstanders launched a Coast […]
Changes in marine biodiversity—the variety and variability of life in the ocean—can be an early indicator of change, provided it’s noticed. The U.S. Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) aims to ensure that scientists not only notice changes in biodiversity at locations around the nation, but also have the tools in place to better understand what […]
Two commercial divers recently discovered a wooden shipwreck off Camogli, Genoa which could well be the remains of the Santo Spirito e Santa Maria de Loreto, a storied ragusa-style galleon that went down in 1579. Two divers from an underwater construction company, Edoardo Sbaraini and Gabriele Succi, encountered a set of wooden timbers at a depth […]
The next installment in the 100-plus year drama around the Titanic is about to play out in a Virginia courtroom. RMS Titanic, which holds the rights to the wreck site, was due by June 18, 2020, to file a financing plan for the recovery and conservation of artifacts it is targeting during its 2020 expedition […]
[By Zhang Chun] In early June, the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture’s Bureau of Fisheries announced plans for two closed seasons on squid fishing in parts of the south-west Atlantic and eastern Pacific, to give two species a better chance of reproducing. The closed seasons cover what are believed to be the main spawning grounds of […]
Royal Navy warship HMS Westminster shadowed a Russian destroyer through the English Channel. Portsmouth-based HMS Westminster, along with patrol ship HMS Tyne, monitored the passage of the Russian warship Vice Admiral Kulakov as it passed south through the English Channel. “The Royal Navy routinely monitors the passage of warships through the UK’s area of interest […]
Bath Iron Works’ largest union voted in favor of a strike on Sunday, one week after its negotiating committee firmly rejected the shipbuilder’s contract offer. With 85 percent of the membership participating, the strike authorization vote tallied up at 87 percent in favor of a walkout, Machinists Union Local S6 leader Chris Weirs told local […]
