Container Loss Becomes Concerning

Recently the UK P&I Club did a webinar to discuss key issues that are affecting the shipping market now. Here’s what viswa group wants to highlight from that webinar.

The webinar hosted by UK P&I club & TT club had 255 attendees.

Key Points
  • Loss of containers becomes more and more concerning: primarily from because of environment – dangerous good & plastics
  • Existing data:

    Very difficult to establish what is the cause of container losses:

    • Data is aggregated

    • Not suitable for causation...

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COVID19 Official Indifference Keep Crews Stranded at Sea

According to an article published in the Economist, it isn’t COVID-19 that has trapped merchant seamen on their ships. It is official indifference

90% Trade Flows

As you read this, over 60,000 cargo ships are on the high seas, laden with iPhones from China, dresses from Bangladesh, beef from Argentina, oil from the Gulf and much, much more. The industry likes to say that it is responsible for “90% of everything”. Indeed, its ships are the circulatory system of global commerce and their 1.2m...

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The Renaissance of Louisiana -Laissez les bon temps rouler!

In my opinion, Louisiana, while consistently being America’s lovable loser on education, health, poverty, violent crime (most of which resides in New Orleans but precipitates into the statewide statistics and economic GDP), has some of the most interesting and colorful history as well as some of the most interesting personalities cultivated in the nation’s 25thmost populous state, writes The Ghost of Jean Lafitte.

Lil Wayne, Peyton Manning, Terry Bradshaw, Johnnie Cochran, Ellen DeGeneres, and...

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[FAQ] Excessive Liner Wear While Using the New VLSFO Fuels

Recently Viswa Group had published a detailed analysis of liner wear issues that shippers witnessed using new VLSFO fuels. Now, they have furthers clarified the situation with some added facts and questions and answers.

Be sure of this when you use the new VLSFO blends. Read the previous white paper articles here

Excessive Liner Wear While Using New VLSFO Fuels!

Excessive Liner Wear While Using the New VLSFO Fuels

What is the effect of fuel characteristics on liner wear and scuffing issue?

We...

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Excessive Liner Wear While Using the New VLSFO Fuels

In an earlier technical update, Viswa Lab has highlighted the issue of liner wear that occurs while using the new blends of VLSFO fuels. Now, they have taken it further and done another set of detailed testing which revealed the extent of it. Here we are putting up that report.

What is it?

Viswa Lab has so far received and tested over 20,000 number of VLSFO fuels. These fuels are from multiple sources, multiple blending procedures, and multiple global bunkering ports.

Out of tested VLSFOs, there...

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Viswa Group Uplifting Clients With COVID19 Cure Good News!

In a recent circular, the Dr. Vis of the Viswa Group has instilled hope and faith in its customers and clients by highlighting the good news coming out of the coronavirus pandemic.

Here’s the letter written by Dr. Vis.

Here is some very important news on the Coronavirus pandemic:

  • Recently approval has been received for a point of care test by a small diagnostic company Cephid that can run results in 45 minutes.
  • In the biggest breakthrough so far, Abbott Laboratories has received approval for a...

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Viswa Lab Speaks About the Importance of Good Relationships in a Letter To Its Clients

With the coronavirus outbreak wreaking havoc in everyone’s life Dr. Vis from the Viswa Lab writes to all of you on hope and how to maintain cordial relationships while social distancing.

Here’s what he says.

These are difficult times. They are challenging to all of us in more than one way. The news of extreme sorrow and despair fills the news and social media. The problems seem innumerable and the tasks insurmountable.

What keeps a person going?

It’s this small word that seems to give us the...

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Excessive Liner Wear While Using New VLSFO Fuels!

Viswa Lab has so far received and tested over 20,000 number of VLSFO fuels. These fuels are from multiple sources, multiple blending procedures, and multiple global bunkering ports, says a white paper published by the Lab.

Out of tested VLSFOs, there are cases of abnormal cylinder liner wear in 12 cases. This paper presents Viswa’s findings based on an in-depth pattern recognition study of these 11 fuels and their effect on the engines. The data studied has been provided by the fuel users who...

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How To Test the Stability & Compatibility of Fuels With VLSFOs

Viswa Lab in its latest technical report has put forward a detailed analysis of the 2020 compliant fuel issues. The white paper highlights critical areas of concern with new VLSFO stability and compatibility. Here”s the detailed report for our readers.

Summary 

Since the beginning of 2020, a large number of Bunker fuels meeting the 2020 Global 0.50% sulfur requirements (VLSFO’s) are getting analyzed by multiple testing labs and other agencies. The chemical nature of VLSFOs has been very complex...

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