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BBC News Interview with HRAS on Proposed English Channel Migrant Pushbacks

BBC News Interview with HRAS on Proposed English Channel Migrant Pushbacks

9 September 2021 London. UK. Following a 48 hour period of ongoing controversy after the UK Home Office suggested that push-backs of migrant boats crossing the English Channel would be used in limited and specific circumstances by UK Border Force vessels to redirect migrants into French territorial waters, the BBC has spoken with […]

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https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/09/12/bbc-news-interview-with-hras-on-proposed-english-channel-migrant-pushbacks/

Everybody wants to talk — or laugh — about Suez Canal crisis

Everybody has an opinion — and social media allows for those opinions to be shared globally and instantly. In the case of the Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal, there has been a flood of conjecture, lampoons and memes. (Yeah, we’ve seen the one with Austin Powers many times. Please don’t share it with us again.)

Apparently, the folks at the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) are seeing them as well. The SCA, of course, has its hands full trying to get the massive Ever Given, with a carrying capacity of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/everybody-wants-to-talk-or-laugh-about-suez-canal-crisis

IMO set to outline next steps in its GHG strategy

Shipping lines affiliated to the World Shipping Council (WSC) have called on the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to adopt the industry’s proposal to add US$2/tonne to the price of bunker fuel to raise money for a research fund that will develop zero-carbon technology.

The IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) 75 will meet this week, from 16-20 November, to debate proposals put forward by the Intersessional Working Group, which met in late October, that will see ship...

https://container-news.com/imo-set-to-outline-next-steps-in-its-ghg-strategy/

BBC Bans Racist Football Terms & Commentators Ahead of Premier League

The BBC sent held an 'avoiding racial bias' training session for their broadcasters ahead of the new season

According to an article published in the Sun, THE BBC have banned sports commentators from using “racist” phrases including cakewalk, sold down the river and nitty gritty.

Avoiding Racial Bias?

In an ‘avoiding racial bias’ training session, commentators and co-commentators were given a list of terms that must be avoided.

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The BBC sent held an ‘avoiding racial bias’ training session for their broadcasters ahead of the new season

The Daily Mail reports that in the online training session staff were...

https://mfame.guru/bbc-bans-racist-football-terms-commentators-ahead-of-premier-league/

Fake News Busted: COVID-19 Rumours and Stories Fact-checked!

  • There are many fake and misleading coronavirus stories on social media.
  • WhatsApp messages claiming the BCG vaccine prevents coronavirus infection are inaccurate.
  • WHO confirmed that there is no evidence that the BCG protects people from COVID-19 infection.
  • IRGC unveiled a dodgy hand-held device tat claimed to identify people infected with the coronavirus.
  • They were empty cases with an aerial that swings according to the user’s unconscious hand movements.
  • COVID-19 scientific analysis confirmed...

http://mfame.guru/fake-news-busted-covid-19-rumours-and-stories-fact-checked/

BBC Exposes Dirty And Dangerous Scrapping Of Oil And Gas Units In India

Alang-e

A BBC Disclosure production released this week reveals the harm caused by shipbreaking activities in Alang, India, as well local officials’ and leading oil and gas companies’ efforts to cover up their unlawful practices. The investigation, conducted by journalists Mark Daly and Chris Foote, focuses on the attempt to illegally export a trio of floating rigs full of asbestos and mercury from the Scottish Cromarty Firth.

The BBC Disclosure documentary and longread trace five rigs that were sold in...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/bbc-exposes-dirty-and-dangerous-scrapping-of-oil-and-gas-units-in-india/

MPV and heavylift sector facing mid-term headwinds as global trade slows

The multipurpose vessel (MPV) and heavylift shipping sector is set for 3.8% growth this year, declining to 1.4% in 2020, as the global economy slows and competition for cargo grows, according to Drewry. 
The maritime consultant said the sector would see “strengthening rates through 2019 fuelled by rising project cargo traffic, but prospects thereafter are muted by an anticipated slowdown in world trade”. 
Acknowledging that the trade dispute between the US and China appeared to be “moving...

https://theloadstar.com/mpv-and-heavylift-sector-facing-mid-term-headwinds-as-global-trade-slows/

Greece’s Ambassador spells it out…

In response to BBC’s website article dated 24th of February “Greece’s invisible minority – the Macedonias Slavs”, viewers can find herebelow the Greek Ambassador’s appropriate reply: 

25 February 2019

Mr Stephen Mulvey
Assistant Editor
Digital Current Affairs Department
BBC
[email protected]

Re: Your article: “Greece’s invisible minority – the Macedonian Slavs”

Dear Mr Mulvey,

It was to my great surprise and dismay that I read yesterday, Sunday February 24, on the BBC’s website, the...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/02/25/greeces-ambassador-spells-it-out/

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