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| U.S Coast Guard monitoring stranded cruise ships -chief | 1 year 5 months ago | | Added: Aug 29, 2017 08:48 |
| | The U.S. Coast Guard is monitoring two cruise ships that have been unable to dock due to tropical storm Harvey and is preparing alternative arrangements, one of its commanders said on Saturday in a press conference. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| How clean is the cruise industry? | 1 year 5 months ago | | Added: Aug 29, 2017 08:42 |
| | Last week Carnival Corporation released the 2016 sustainability report for its 10 brands, along with a dedicated sustainability website. It makes for positive reading, but how much progress is really being made in this area by the world’s ocean cruise lines? Crystal Chung takes a look at some of the steps being taken. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| Japanese shipping line to launch unmanned container ships | 1 year 6 months ago | | Added: Aug 25, 2017 13:29 |
| | Nippon Yusen KK will remotely pilot one of its large container ships from a Japanese port to North America, although the company added that a crew will be aboard as a precautionary measure for the initial test voyage, Bloomberg reported. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| Egypt cuts transit fees through Suez Canal by half | 1 year 6 months ago | | Added: Aug 17, 2017 12:29 |
| | The Egyptian government announced that transit rates for container vessels in the northern and southern Suez ports will be reduced from between 3 – 50 per cent depending on the number of containers they carry. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| Aberdeen Harbour supports Maersk Oil decommissioning campaign | 1 year 6 months ago | | Added: Aug 17, 2017 12:28 |
| | Two subsea mid water arches weighing around 100 t each are just some of the items that have been landed at Aberdeen Harbour as the port supports Maersk Oil’s decommissioning campaign for the James, Janice, Affleck and Leadon fields in the North Sea. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| Despite Embargo, Hamad Port Adds New Routes | 1 year 6 months ago | | Added: Aug 11, 2017 11:55 |
| | Qatar's minister of transport, Jassin bin Saif al Sulaiti, has announced new shipping routes from Qatar's Hamad port to Pakistan, Malaysia and Taiwan – another means of circumventing Saudi-led trade sanctions on the small Persian Gulf emirate. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| BIMCO eLearning dramatically refreshed | 1 year 6 months ago | | Added: Aug 11, 2017 11:48 |
| | The first short documentary course is NYPE 2015, which is based on one of the most popular individual contracts available through BIMCO, only takes an hour! Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| ICHCA community to discuss protection against physical and cyber attacks | 1 year 6 months ago | | Added: Aug 11, 2017 11:45 |
| | Following the Petya attack in June, one of the biggest cyber-attacks ever experienced in global shipping which crippled A.P. Moller-Maersk’s computer systems worldwide for five days, the need to protect against both cyber and physical threats to critical maritime infrastructures has been topmost on the minds of many in the cargo handling industry. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| Hanjin struggles to pay creditors | 1 year 6 months ago | | Added: Aug 11, 2017 11:39 |
| | South Korea’s Hanjin Shipping, which faces credit claims totalling around US$10.5bn, has raised only a fraction of that amount from asset sales since its bankruptcy last August. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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