Will the Third Wave of Covid Be More Serious Than UK’s First Two?

Will the Third Wave of Covid Be More Serious Than UK’s First Two? says an article in The Guardian.

Restrictions to lift from 21 June

Summer has nearly arrived and the UK is beginning to unlock from coronavirus restrictions, with a full lifting still on the cards in England on 21 June.

Yet the specter of the Delta variant is casting an ominous shadow, with concerns it could fuel the third wave. So just how serious could the next peak be – and could it be more serious than Britain’s first two...

https://mfame.guru/will-the-third-wave-of-covid-be-more-serious-than-uks-first-two/

Waterfront strike threat: how the industrial relations environment has been – legally – manipulated to Australia’s detriment

Widespread strike action on the waterfront is now possible. Transport unions have arranged matters so that all of the major container stevedores are now operating with expired enterprise agreements.

The last major container stevedore had its enterprise agreement expire in June. Nation-wide and sector-wide protected industrial action by unions is now therefore possible under the Fair Work Act.

Some of those enterprise bargaining arrangements have in fact been expired for years because the unions...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/waterfront-strike-threat-how-the-industrial-relations-environment-has-been-legally-manipulated-to-australias-detriment/

Domestic shippers should look to coastal shipping to ease road and rail freight bottlenecks

Coastal shipping could provide relief to the freight congestion caused by onerous and confusing state COVID testing and self-isolation rules.

Some container shipping lines already carry domestic freight between Australian capital cities on regular services at better-than-weekly frequency.

Shippers with regular shipping requirements already find it advantageous to look to the “blue highway” to move their cargoes between Australian States and to avoid the border road-blocks being imposed by...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/domestic-shippers-should-look-to-coastal-shipping-to-ease-road-and-rail-freight-bottlenecks/

134 Rasmus Blomqvist, Chief Officer, Mont Ventoux, Marseille, France – Rades, Tunisia

Seafarers are the unsung heroes of global trade.

Episode 134 – in spite of the Coronavirus.

This episode is recorded online, so the sound quality is not as exceptionally good as usual. On the other hand, you get to listen to a young Master Mariner who is now stuck on his vessels since the pandemic is causing trouble with crew change. No one can leave the ship and no one can come on board, the entire ship is a quarantine. How does it feel? What do you do? What are you longing for the most and how...

https://shippingpodcast.com/134-rasmus-blomqvist-chief-officer-mont-ventoux-marseille-france-rades-tunisia/

Iron Ore Production To Be Hit As Vale Looks for Corona Contingency Plans

According to an article published in the Share Cafe, the most potential question raised after Vale, raised the possibility of curbing or suspending iron ore shipments because of the growing threat of the COVID-19 virus, is how others like BHP, Rio Tinto and Fortescue Metals will do now?

Global Iron Ore Price Boost?

Certainly Vale’s surprise warning could very well boost global iron ore prices starting today. Iron ore was the only major globally traded commodity whose price rose in last week’s...

https://mfame.guru/iron-ore-production-to-be-hit-as-vale-looks-for-corona-contingency-plans/

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