Below table is the most recent changes in the world fleet every week, with respect to which vessels have been sold for demolition in the last week. Ship & Bunker, with the data from online maritime intelligence and information service VesselValue.com, has listed it out in a recently published...
https://mfame.guru/weekly-vessel-scrapping-report-week-21-2020/
The combination of environmental exhaust emissions regulations and fuel prices have prompted introduction of wind assisted vessel propulsion involving sails, kite sails, bladed horizontal-axis turbines and vertical-axis Magnus rotors. Modern commercial vessels incur many times the weight of earlier generation wind-driven ships and require many times the propulsive power. Future maritime wind propulsion technologies could involve many times the scale of present day technologies.
Over a period of...
https://maritime-executive.com/article/future-possibilities-in-ship-wind-propulsion
El Consejo Mundial de Transporte Marítimo (WSC) calificó de “medida intrusiva” al Decreto Legislativo 1492, que regula los costos de transacción del comercio marítimo de mercancías. En una comunicación formal […]
The Baltic Briefing has issued the tanker report for the 22ndweek of this year. The report dated 29thMay 2020 provides a valuable insight into this week’s tanker market dealings, freight rates, and charter activities.
VLCCOwners regain some of the recent lost ground with tightened supply of vessels by improved volumes.
El Consejo Mundial de Transporte Marítimo (WSC) calificó de “medida intrusiva” al Decreto Legislativo 1492, que regula los costos de transacción del comercio marítimo de mercancías. En una comunicación formal […]
A new organisation has launched a confidential survey to collect the experiences of seafarers who have been subject to sexual assault or harassment, enabling them to share their stories. Founded in 2019, Safer Waves is the brainchild of a serving seafarer who created a website as a safe space for...
https://splash247.com/safer-waves-seeks-seafarer-feedback-on-sexual-assault-and-harassment/
Directors of the Standard P&I Club have announced that the mutual insurer’s management is to be transferred from the US-owned third-party manager, Charles Taylor Group, to an in-house arrangement in a transition that will extend from July this year until August 2021.
The European Commission recently published its first annual report on CO2 emissions from maritime transport. The report analyses the CO2 emissions and energy efficiency ..
Cases of seafarers being denied medical care for conditions unrelated to COVID-19 have been reported to the International Chamber of Shipping.
The body, which describes the news as “alarming”, has observed that there are cases of seafarers being refused entry to port or, in some cases, being denied evacuation for over four days.
“This is simply not acceptable,” said Guy Platten, Secretary General of the ICS.
In a recent webinar, held on May 28 by the World...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/seafarers-denied-medical-care-for-serious-conditions-ics-warns/
Germany’s Arkon Shipping and Norwegian company Wilson have entered into an agreement to operate the largest single fleet of short-sea dry bulk vessels in the ..