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Industry Coordinates To Help Ukrainian Seafarers And Their Families Evacuating Odessa

Ukrainian seafarers and their families evacuating Odessa

A number of maritime industry players have come together to provide safe and secure accommodation in Romania and Poland for Ukrainian seafarers and their families. The group – the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), the Marine Transport Workers’ Trade Union of Ukraine (MTWTU) and global ship manager V.Group – have put funding and organisation in place to get Ukrainian seafarers families out of the country to accommodation in neighbouring Romania and Poland.

Help is available for...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/industry-coordinates-to-help-ukrainian-seafarers-and-their-families-evacuating-odessa/

Maritime Grounds In Ukraine: Interview With An Odesa-Based Maritime Lawyer

Odesa ports

“Mariupol is, I think, a nightmare situation because the terrorists they [are] just damaging everything there, so it maybe the most awful thing we have ever seen for the last, maybe, decade of any port place in the world…nowadays its a huge disaster for civilians and for the people who are there, for everybody.”

Working with law firm partner and member of the Ukrainian Bar Association, Evgenyy Sukachev of Black Sea Law Co, as well as other maritime stakeholders in-country underscores the...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/maritime-grounds-in-ukraine-interview-with-an-odesa-based-maritime-lawyer/

NORTHCOM: U.S. Needs New Ballistic Missile Interceptor by 2028 to Keep Pace with North Korea

Kim Jong Un in front of a the North Korea intercontinental ballistic missile. KCNA Photo

The United States needs to deploy its Next Generation Interceptor by 2028 or sooner to keep pace with North Korea’s accelerating ballistic missile program, most recently demonstrated in Pyongyang’s successful test-firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile Thursday, Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

While saying he was “comfortable with where we are today based on...

Report to Congress on Law of War and the Invasion of Ukraine

The following is the March 16, 2022, Congressional Research Service Legal Sidebar, The Law of War and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.

From the report

In the days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, many countries condemned the action as a violation of international law governing when countries may use force against one another. Since then, several observers, including the U.S. Secretary of State and other foreign government officials, have cited evidence that the Russian...

https://news.usni.org/2022/03/25/report-to-congress-on-law-of-war-and-the-invasion-of-ukraine

Ukraine war and anti-Russia sanctions on top of COVID-19 mean even worse trouble lies ahead for global supply chains

Pictured: a conceptual representation of the supply chain. Graphic credit: Gerd Altmann via Pixabay.

By Tinglong Dai, Johns Hopkins University

Francis Fukuyama, the American political scientist who once described the collapse of the Soviet Union as the “end of history,” suggested that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine might be called “the end of the end of history.” He meant that Vladimir Putin’s aggression signals a rollback of the ideals of a free Europe that emerged after 1991. Some observers...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/ukraine-war-and-anti-russia-sanctions-on-top-of-covid-19-mean-even-worse-trouble-lies-ahead-for-global-supply-chains/

Links between Russian superyacht crews

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Friday, March 25, 2022

Links between Russian superyacht crews
While scores of Russian-owned superyachts have been seized by European jurisdictions since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the focus over the last few days has been on the Scheherazade…

Zelenskiy urges French firms to stop sponsoring Russian war machine
French companies including carmaker Renault and retailer Auchan must leave the Russian market, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told French lawmakers…

Gateway...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/03/25/links-between-russian-superyacht-crews/

Battered but not broken: how global trade is responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Pictured: a container terminal with boxships at berth. Photo credit: Bellergy RC via Pixabay.

By Flavio Macau, Edith Cowan University

Russia’s first McDonald’s store in opened in 1990, just months after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was a potent symbol that the Cold War was ending and a great ideological wound healing.

Now every McDonald’s in Russia is closed, as nations and corporations reduce, suspend or sever ties in response to the invasion of Ukraine.

The scale of economic sanctions imposed...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/battered-but-not-broken-how-global-trade-is-responding-to-russias-invasion-of-ukraine/

VIDEO: Russian Landing Ship Destroyed in Ukrainian Port

H I Sutton and Damien Symon Image used with permission

The Ukrainian military destroyed a Russian Alligator-class landing ship in the port city of Berdyansk on Thursday, Ukrainian officials claimed.

Ship spotters reported a burning ship, which the Kyiv Independent identified as Russian Navy ship Orsk, with two other landing ships seen with some fire damage. Another ship was seen off the coast circling, USNI News contributor H I Sutton reported via Twitter.

Both Ropucha class LSTs were damaged with...

https://news.usni.org/2022/03/24/video-russian-landing-ship-destroyed-in-ukrainian-port

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