SYDNEY, Nov 24 (Reuters) – A climate change protest off the coast of Australia’s New South Wales State forced an inbound ship to turn back from the country’s largest terminal for coal…
https://gcaptain.com/australia-protest-forces-ship-to-abort-arrival-at-coal-port-170-arrested/
KYIV, Feb 25 (Reuters) – Around 160 tons of Ukrainian grain was destroyed at a Polish railway station amid large-scale protests in what a senior Ukrainian official said on Sunday was an…
https://gcaptain.com/160-tons-of-ukrainian-grain-destroyed-in-poland/
By Elida Moreno PANAMA CITY, Nov 17 (Reuters) – A ship with supplies for Canadian miner First Quantum’s unit in Panama was unable to dock as local boats blocked off access to the…
https://gcaptain.com/panama-port-blockade-keeps-supplies-from-first-quantum-mine/
By Jose Devasia and Munsif Vengattil KOCHI, India, Nov 26 (Reuters) – Protesters from a fishing community blocked attempts by India’s Adani Group to restart work on a $900 million transhipment port…
https://gcaptain.com/deadlock-deepens-at-adanis-south-india-port-as-protesters-block-trucks/
By Renee Bonorchis (Bloomberg) –A South African court has denied Shell Plc’s bid to conduct an oceanic seismic survey along the country’s east coast. The decisions to grant Shell the rights…
https://gcaptain.com/shells-bid-to-search-south-african-coast-for-oil-gas-blocked/
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Market watch
The Indianapolis market has made a full recovery after a large drop in volume that continued even after the Fourth of July holiday. Outbound tender volumes increased 12% week over week with rejections...
By Heejin Kim and Ann Koh (Bloomberg) An escalating strike by truck drivers in South Korea is adding more disruption to global supply chains, from a slowdown at the country’s ports…
By Ann Koh and Anusha Ondaatjie (Bloomberg) –Sri Lanka’s political turmoil is prompting some shipping lines to detour to Indian ports instead of calling at Colombo, one of the key supply-chain…
https://gcaptain.com/ships-divert-to-india-as-sri-lanka-crisis-slows-colombo-port/
Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation is taking 12 truck operators out of service — suspending their operating authorities and ordering the seizure of their license plates — in connection with their role in the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa, Canada.
A spokesperson for the ministry declined to identify the operators or say if they included any carriers. The spokesperson also would not say how long the suspensions would last.
Sources close to the ministry told FreightWaves that at least one...
The production at 22 ship recycling facilities has been stopped at Izmir Aliaga district in Turkey amid the workforce strike for better employment conditions in the last six days. The post Turkey:…
https://www.offshore-energy.biz/turkey-workers-strike-halts-ship-recycling-at-22-facilities/