A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, employers continue to be faced with difficult questions and evolving guidance concerning how to bring employees safely back to the office, including how and where employees work, screening protocols, managing liability and, now, vaccines. In this Seward & Kissel webinar, Partners Mark Kotwick and Anne Patin will discuss with Counsel […]
On Wednesday night, the floating fish processor Aleutian Falcon caught fire at the pier in Tacoma, Washington, sending up flames and smoke well into Thursday morning. The fire started at about 2230 hours on Wednesday night, and the Tacoma fireboat Destiny was the first response asset. According to local media, no firefighters were permitted to […]
Hoopo Systems has formed a partnership with KONOIKE Group and the introduction of the hoopoLogic tracking solution to improve ground operations efficiency at Kansai International Airport. The hoopoLogic solution is provided by iLand6, the local distributor of hoopo’s system in Japan. According to KONOIKE Group: “Technology can help ground handlers deliver high-quality services to their […]
deugro Hanau, deugro Air Chartering in Frankfurt am Main, and deugro China collaborated to organise and carry out the timely delivery of steel components from Cairo, Egypt to Changshu, China. The components, including steel beams and angles of different sizes, were urgently needed in China to keep the manufacturing schedule of air cooler modules and […]
Antonov Airlines has safely completed an urgent order to carry a 54-tonne rotor, used in power generation, from Ghana to India for repairs and back to Ghana after repairs. Fellow members of The Heavy Lift Group (THLG), Rhenus Project Logistics USA, chartered the flight to carry the 10.50 m long, 3.89 m wide, 4.13 m […]
Plans were unveiled for Spain’s first industrial-scale floating offshore wind farm. The Spanish multinational electric utility company Iberdrola said it would invest as much as $1.2 billion to develop the facility which would be an extension of the company’s efforts to develop significant renewable energy resources off the coast of Spain. According to the company, […]
An agreement has been reached to begin exploring the development of shore power facilities for PortMiami. Miami-Dade County, which operates the port, said that Florida Power & Light and the six leading cruise lines operating from the port plan to begin exploring add cold ironing capabilities to the cruise operations at the port. Depending on […]
After a rocky 2020, the global trade landscape is hardly shaping up to be a smooth one in 2021. In 2020, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in the U.S. published its maritime compliance advisory in May and the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) in the UK followed suit in June with its own maritime advisory. […]
Cruise operations in Europe are moving forward with plans for the resumption of service while in North America the industry continues to await the opportunity to resume its cruises. After pausing operations due to the resurgence of the coronavirus and renewed government restrictions, Germany’s AIDA cruises and Italy’s Costa Cruises, both parts of Carnival Corporation, […]
TECO 2030, a Norwegian manufacturer of scrubber and ballast water treatment systems, is shifting its focus to the manufacturing of proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells for marine applications. It aims to be the first company in Norway to build hydrogen fuel cells at scale. “Our ambition is to build an advanced innovation center combined […]
The cutters Munro and Bertholf intercepted three smuggling boats in the Eastern Pacific Ocean in the last week of January, seizing more than 9,000 pounds of cocaine with an estimated value of more than $150 million. On January 26, Munro’s crew boarded a fishing vessel registered to a nation which has a law enforcement partnership agreement […]
Wallenius Wilhelmsen revealed plans for the first full-scale wind powered RoRo ship which it hopes to have in service within the next five years. Building on concept designs announced last fall, the company has added in its commercial expertise to produce a design that it believes could be ordered in 2022. Known as the Orcelle […]
