When thinking of the word ‘slave’, most minds spring back to the African slave trade to North America and the Caribbean in the 18th and 19th Century – but to this very day, slavery remains one of the biggest, unsolved issues for humankind throughout the ages of “civilisation”.
And just as we are...
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Maritime regulator the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) yesterday launched a probe into claims that shipping lines serving the US “may be attempting to hold companies financially responsible for transport services they did not contract for and may not legally be required to pay”.
The FMC issued a notice of inquiry (NOI) after receiving complaints from industry associations representing freight forwarders and 3PLs, hauliers and customs brokers that their members had been approached …
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Utterly absorbing long read from Bloomberg on the hijacking of an oil tanker that turned out to be a massive fraud, and at times reads more like a film treatment than a shipping article. All the characters are present: Somali pirates, Yemeni rebels, a mysterious Greek shipowner with Mafia connections and an unflappable British ship surveyor; as are the settings: the tense waters off Yemen, the war-ravaged port of Aden …
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The dispute over the Maersk Line – including subsidiaries Hamburg Süd and Sealand – departure from New York’s Staten Island terminal, operated by Global Container Terminals (GCT), continues, with GCT now suing the line over lost earnings, according to this report from Freightwaves. Maersk decided to move its services to APM Terminals’ facility in nearby New Jersey at the beginning of the month, and offered GCT $5.5m in settlement. That …
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From American Shipper comes the news that North American terminal operator Global Container Terminals (GCT) has requested an emergency restraining order from a New York court to prevent Maersk and Hamburg Süd from moving their vessel calls to the APMT-controlled facility at Port Elizabeth in New Jersey.
According to American Shipper, Maersk has notified GCT it intended to move to Port Elizabeth on 1 May, but under the terms of the …
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An extraordinary story from the Associated Press that really has to be read to be believed – and even then you might have trouble lending it credence. A train driver in Los Angeles – a port which has significant amounts of on-dock rail – has been charged with terrorism offences after he allegedly tried to crash the train he was controlling into the US Navy’s hospital ship, Mercy, which was docked …
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Seafarer representatives are increasingly worried that the forthcoming IMO 2020 low-sulphur regulations could result in a spate of criminal convictions.
Seafarer union Nautilus International said a recent case involving a P&O Cruises vessel in the North Europe special emission control area (SEVA), which extends from the Channel to the Baltic Sea, set a worrying precedent, following which seafarers could find themselves with a criminal conviction if they fail to correctly manage …
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And so it came to pass. Perhaps it was only a matter of time before US transportation secretary Elaine Chao got tainted by the shenanigans in the White House. Perhaps not, but as reported across the media over the past couple of days, and as this interesting analysis by Salon extrapolates, there is considerable evidence to suggest that Ms Chao used her position to further her own and her family’s …
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The president of a New Jersey local of the International Longshoreman’s Association, the union that covers dockworkers on the US east and Gulf coasts, has been arrested for bribery. Glenn Blicht faces 20 years in prison, according to this report from CNBC, if he is found guilty of demanding and receiving some $150,000 in bribes over a 10-year period. It is alleged that Mr Blicht demanded cash from an unnamed …
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MSC has sort to ease the fears of shippers with cargo aboard a vessel arrested by US authorities this week.
The MSC Gayane was impounded by US Customs on 17 June after a raid at the port of Philadelphia uncovered the largest amount of cocaine they ever found.
On Monday, US Customs and Border Protection revealed it had obtained a warrant to arrest the ship and it would remain in the court’s …
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