2020

Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2021

Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2021

John Faraclas; picture credits: Anny Zade

One might think that 2020 was, as we branded and expected same last year, another annus horribilis. Despite being optimist we believe that 2021 will be a tougher year but humanity will make the breakthrough subject the politicians raise to the circumstances.

We are amid a pandemic with the Coronavarious anathema, in a war so to speak, as the virus spreads like the Lernean Hydra – that monster we know from the Greek...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/01/01/happy-healthy-and-prosperous-2021/

100 Reasons To Smile About in 2020

While this year seems especially hard, there are silver linings. Out of coronavirus comes creativity. Out of quarantine comes bonus time with family. Out of activism comes changes for the better.

One thing we can try to do is to see the good. Maybe this list will help. From small acts of kindness to new albums that got us dancing, here are 100 good things that happened in 2020 so far, compiled by USA TODAY’s Life staff, in no particular order. 

News Stories
  1. A 103-year-old grandma beat COVID-19...

https://mfame.guru/100-reasons-to-smile-about-in-2020/

New Year’s Eve Celebrations in Times of Corona

With 2020 coming to an end, people are happily biding adieu  this troublesome year which only brought sickness and sadness with it. While no one is in a mood to party this New Year’s Eve they are letting go the cursed year with some perilous rituals, reports the Guardian. 

Let’s look at what people are upto this New Year’s Eve.

The New Normal New Year’s Eve

In many ways, the end of this terrible year deserves the biggest, loudest and most cathartic party of all time. In a pandemic, of course, that...

https://mfame.guru/new-years-eve-celebrations-in-times-of-corona/

5 big freight rail themes in 2020

A photograph of a train driving through a desert.

To say that 2020 was a roller-coaster year might be an understatement. From COVID-19 to congestion, here are five themes that dominated the freight rail industry in 2020.

Coronavirus causes volume volatility

Perhaps the dominant theme of 2020 could be the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on rail volumes and the freight rail industry overall because the industry is still feeling the pandemic’s impact 10 months since the outbreak first began in North America.

Rail volumes crashed in April and May,

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/5-big-freight-rail-themes-in-2020

Hurricane season 2020 finally, mercifully ends

Workboat operators in the Gulf of Mexico are no strangers to hurricanes that disrupt navigation and human lives, but 2020 was an especially brutal and relentless season of destructive storms.

When Zeta, a Category 2 hurricane barreled through Louisiana on Oct 28, it was the fifth named storm this year to hit the state, surpassing the previous record of four in 2002 and arriving just weeks after two other devastating storms, Laura and Delta.

Laura made landfall in the state’s southwest corner in...

https://www.workboat.com/news/coastal-inland-waterways/hurricane-season-2020-finally-mercifully-ends/

Farewell to CEO Rod Nairn

Pictured: outgoing SAL CEO Rod Nairn who has led Shipping Australia for the last eight years.
Photo: Shipping Australia. NOTE: all of the people in this photograph are, in fact, socially distanced. See our explanatory note at the foot of the article.

Shipping Australia farewelled our outgoing CEO, Rod Nairn, who retires from the role on 31 December.

Rod recalled that he joined the organization in January 2013 on a six-month contract… but he’s only now leaving Shipping Australia approximately...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/farewell-to-ceo-rod-nairn/

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