US-based dry bulk shipping company the Foremost Group has confirmed that Angela Chao, its Chair and Chief Executive Officer, has tragically passed away following a vehicular accident. Born in 1974, Ms Chao was the youngest of six daughters of James Chao and the late Ruth Mulan Chu Chao, who had...
US Senators Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff have confirmed the allocation of US$15 million in US Department of Transportation funding to help upgrade the existing infrastructure at the Port of Brunswick in Georgia. According to the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA), the bipartisan...
As the number of ships passing through the drought-ridden Panama Canal and the terrorist-hit Red Sea slows, the geopolitical importance of these so-called choke points in world trade comes to the fore once again. The disruption inevitably works its way through to the Asia Pacific. Take the Panama...
Attacks on shipping in the Red Sea have had almost no impact on the oil price, despite the volume of oil shipped through the waterway surging 80 per cent over the last two years because of the war in the Ukraine. Markets more worried about a soft global economy and rising US and Brazilian oil […]
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The US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) will hold an informal public hearing to examine how conditions in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden regions are impacting commercial shipping and global supply chains. The hearing will allow stakeholders in the supply chain to communicate with the commission how...
Plaquemines Port Harbor and Terminal District (Plaquemines Port) has entered into a letter of intent with APM Terminals to build a new container terminal on the West Bank of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Plaquemines Port will lease the land to APM Terminals under a 30-year agreement with extension...
Two people were killed while a third suffered burn injuries after a fire ignited on a container vessel at the Port of Houston in Texas on Monday, January 8. The Panamanian-flagged Stride was berthed at the Barbours Cut Container Terminal when the blaze ignited in an undisclosed portion of the ship...
Undetected corrosion and wear led to an equipment failure on a cargo ship while offloading cargo last year in Houston, Texas, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said recently. On July 23, 2022, the bulk carrier Thorco Basilisk was offloading a wind turbine component at the...
A maintenance error caused an engine room fire aboard a chemical tanker last year, resulting in US$1.2 million in damages, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said recently. At 19:13 local time on April 29, 2022, the Malta-flagged chemical tanker Endo Breeze was transiting outbound...
These two specialised but nevertheless very interesting books should be read successively, as their subjects, but not their foci, are closely related and their ideas are closely linked. Maritime archaeology really only came of age after the Second World War, but it has since become a very popular...