Two crew members died and a third was injured after a fire broke out on 2,174 teu containership Stride (IMO 9149835) while it was moored in the Port of Houston. The port’s fire department responded to the fire, which broke out while the vessel was docked at the Barbours Cut Container Terminal. The...
CMA CGM announces the launch of Ceiba Express, a weekly direct service starting the middle of this month that connects Florida with Venezuela, Colombia, Honduras & Guatemala. Port rotation will be: Port Everglades – Kingston – La Guaira – Puerto Cabello – Cartagena – Puerto Cortes – Santo Tomas –...
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Hundreds of volunteers in the Spanish region of northwest Galicia were dealing with the aftermath of millions of plastic pellets that had washed up on the coast, setting off environmental concerns the volunteers used colanders and shovels to sift through the sandy beaches. Commonly referred to as...
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The Defence/Charterers & Traders claims team in our London office is looking to recruit a lawyer to fill a position with Gard’s Defence / Charterers & Traders Claims team to be based in its London office. Gard said that it was keeping an open mind on whether to recruit a senior or a junior lawyer….
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Gard’s Cindy Ko, Gard Senior Lawyer, Singapore, and Louis Shepherd, Gard Managing Director, Japan, plus Adam Świerczewski, Gard Senior Lawyer, London, have noted in an article that, as of January 1st 2024, vessels over 5,000 GT operating within EU waters had become subject to the EU’s Emission...
Maritime consultancy Spinnaker said that it had represented law firm Hill Dickinson in its recent recruitment of a specialist Ship Finance team of 10 from Ince & Co. The project was handled by Spinnaker Chairman Phil Parry, himself an ex-Ince & Co maritime lawyer. The new hires all moved from Ince...
Over the weekend Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud signed a law nullifying the agreement signed recently between Ethiopia and Somaliland, a part of northern Somalia not recognized by nearly all of the rest of the world. Mohamud stated on social media that “this law is an illustration of our...
India is set to establish its own P&l club, provisionally called India Club. The new insurance entity will focus initially on offering protection to domestic shipping, although it would look to expanding internationally at a later stage. It was reported that local insurers including New India...
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Yemen’s Houthi militia have given international shipping interests a new option if they want to be guaranteed safe passage through the Red Sea: they can renounce Israel in writing. It’s not an offer that many international shipping companies are likely to take up, but it does expand the range of...
In his New Year message to Japan Club members Shizuo Takahashi, Director General, said that, while the pandemic subsided and there were signs in 2023 of recovery to pre-pandemic social environment, the business environment surrounding the Japanese and global shipping industry became unstable in the...