On Monday, less than three weeks after Hurricane Laura struck communities on the Texas/Louisiana border, Tropical Storm Sally is expected to strengthen and make landfall in Louisiana as a Category 1-2 hurricane. Current projections indicate that the storm’s center will arrive just east of Port Fourchon at about 2300 hours local time on Monday night. […]
[By Yu Yani] Here on the Bohai Sea, Tianjin’s central fishing harbour is welcoming tourists again after being quiet for months due to the coronavirus. Liu Cuibo waves off one group and his phone rings again and again with others arranging boat trips. “Everyone’s sick of being cooped up,” he says, his mood bright. Liu, […]
The crew of the Coast Guard cutter Bertholf offloaded more than 11 tons of cocaine in San Diego on Thursday. The drugs, worth nearly $400 million, were seized in international waters in the Eastern Pacific. The shipment represents the results of 13 drug smuggling vessel interdictions off the coasts of Mexico, Central and South America […]
Several studies undertaken internationally into the effects of changing world climate have focused on the warming Arctic region along with melting northern glaciers located across Northern Canada, Northern Russia and Greenland. While some studies suggest that world sea levels could rise by between 1.3 and 3-feet by 2100, other more alarming studies suggest that sea […]
The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a fisherman who went missing Wednesday about 300 miles to the east of Hawaii. At 0630 hours on Wednesday, Joint Rescue Coordination Center Honolulu received a call from the fishing vessel St. Marie Anne, which is homeported in Honolulu. The St. Marie Anne’s captain reported that […]
Shipowners face gigantic new challenges in the COVID-19 era. In addition to the economic impact, they have to contend with a maze of government restrictions on crew changes and international travel. The restrictions also make it difficult to bring surveyors on board for mandatory inspections. Ship registries, also known as flag states or flag registries, […]
[By David Duffy and Catherine Eastman] Plastic pollution has been found in practically every environment on the planet, with especially severe effects on ocean life. Plastic waste harms marine life in many ways – most notably, when animals become entangled in it or consume it. We work as scientists and rehabilitators at The Whitney Laboratory […]
Friday marks the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, which killed almost 3,000 people in Manhattan, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. Though COVID-19 has changed the way that Americans gather to honor the fallen this year, ceremonies and virtual gatherings around the United States – and the world – have carried on. In Manhattan, Vice […]
The cruise industry is ready to sail. That’s the message of the industry’s executives and to provide it Carnival Corporation’s Costa Cruises unveiled the most ambitious restart plan among the major cruise lines. Speaking at a meeting of the Miami-Dade County Tourism and Ports Committee, the executives discussed their plans to begin a strategic ramp-up […]
As the global shipping industry works to develop a new generation of sustainable ships, a broad range of concepts has been presented. The latest, unveiled in Sweden looks to use innovative, advanced technologies to once again harness the wind creating a revolutionary and sustainable category of shipping. The initiative is a Swedish collaborative project between […]
After 38 days, the 27 rescued migrants aboard the tanker Maersk Etienne have disembarked – but not onto a pier. On Friday the rescuees boarded the NGO-operated rescue tug Mare Jonio, which has a medical team aboard and is better-prepared to handle healthcare needs. However, just as it did to Maersk Etienne when she was carrying the […]
As the European Union explores bringing the shipping industry into its Emissions Trading System (ETS), the container shipping industry is highlighting serious concerns from trade tensions to legal and diplomatic issues which they believe might make it more difficult to achieve global solutions to reduce carbon emissions. The industry trade group the World Shipping Council […]
