Oil prices plunged nearly 8% on Friday to the lowest level since 2021, while copper, soybeans and other commodities also fell as China retaliated against U.S. President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariffs.
https://gcaptain.com/commodities-collapse-china-tariffs-send-oil-soybeans-and-copper-tumbling/
Los Wearables son un conjunto de aparatos y dispositivos electrónicos que se incorporan en alguna parte de nuestro cuerpo interactuando de forma continua con el usuario y con otros dispositivos con la finalidad de realizar alguna función concreta, relojes inteligentes, zapatillas con GPS...
https://fullavantenews.com/que-son-los-wearables-en-concepto-logistico/?lang=es
The Navy and the Department of Defense have settled a lawsuit over the former COVID-19 vaccine mandate with 36 members of the Special Warfare community, the law firm representing the plaintiffs announced Wednesday.
A settlement hearing between lawyers for the Special Warfare community members and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Secretary of...
https://news.usni.org/2024/07/24/navy-settles-lawsuit-with-sailors-who-denied-covid-19-vaccine
In March, the fleet absorption from vessel delays was 5.7% of the global fleet, translating to an improvement from the recent peak of 7.5% in January, according to the latest report by Danish shipping data analysis company Sea-Intelligence.
“When vessel delays occur, a percentage of the global vessel capacity is effectively absorbed and hence unavailable to the market,” explains Alan Murphy, CEO of Sea-Intelligence, adding that “historically, this percentage has tended to be within 1%-3%, with a...
https://container-news.com/improved-vessel-delays-may-release-more-capacity-sea-intelligence/
HII Newport News Shipbuilding has delivered the 23rd Vrginia-class nuclear attack submarine to the U.S. Navy, the company announced in a Thursday statement.
New Jersey (SSN-796) is the fifth Block IV Virginia attack boat and the first designed from the keel up to accommodate mixed gender crews. The boat completed sea trials earlier this year off the coast of Virginia.
“It is a proud day for our entire team when we deliver a high-quality...
https://news.usni.org/2024/04/25/hii-delivers-attack-boat-new-jersey-to-navy
“Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the global container market grew only 1.5% from 171
million TEU in 2019 to 173.5 million TEU in 2023. Without the pandemic, that figure would
have been 24.6 million higher, landing at 198.1 million in 2023,” says Niels Rasmussen, Chief Shipping Analyst at BIMCO.
During the past four years, the container market has faced not only lower-than-expected
growth in the global economy, but the ratio of market growth vs economic growth, the so-
called GDP multiplier, was...
https://container-news.com/covid-pandemic-wiped-24-6-million-teus-off-container-market-growth/
The impact of the Red Sea crisis is less severe than Covid-19, although the TEU-mile boost has been significant.
Clarksons’ latest Container Intelligence Monthly stated that compared with December 2023, TEU-miles have gone up by around 11%, as around 620 ships of 8.5 million TEUs are rerouting from the Suez Canal to the Cape of Good Hope to avoid attacks from Houthi rebels.
Contextualised against Covid-19, where surging e-commerce sales and heightened inspections caused logistical bottlenecks...
https://container-news.com/red-sea-crisis-milder-than-covid-19-challenges-to-be-seen-in-2025/
Last week, Maersk management announced that the company was suspending its share buyback program and cutting its dividend by 88%, signaling the end of an era when managing and deploying an enormous excess of capital was the top concern for the shipping line’s executive team. Maersk’s stock price dropped by approximately 16%. Now that the company’s pandemic-era bonanza is well and truly over, it’s time to take a retrospective look at how Maersk invested its cash when profits were pouring in by...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/maersk-had-more-cash-than-it-knew-what-to-do-with-but-not-anymore
SYDNEY, Oct 25 (Reuters) – Carnival Corp’s Australian unit has been ordered to pay the medical expenses of a woman who contracted COVID-19, with a judge ruling that the cruise ship operator misled…
https://gcaptain.com/australian-court-rules-against-carnival-landmark-covid-19-case/
Manchester surgeon who claimed Covid-19 was a hoax is struck-off, highlights a BBC news source.
UK coronavirus victimA surgeon, who worked at a hospital where the third UK coronavirus victim died, has been struck-off for claiming the virus was a hoax.
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal ruled that Mr Muhammad Adil undermined public health and public confidence in the medical profession.
Mr Muhammad Adil, who also posted anti-vaccination comments online, had worked at North Manchester...
https://mfame.guru/manchester-surgeon-accused-of-hoaxing-covid-19-expelled/