Category: Shipping

Sea piracy: lowest level in almost three decades

Sea piracy: lowest level in almost three decades

Gepostet von | 17 Jan 2023 | , , | 0

In its latest report on maritime piracy figures for 2022, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Germany reports a continued significant decline in piracy attacks and armed robberies. However, it calls for efforts to be continued worldwide to ensure the protection of seafarers from maritime piracy in the long term. In figures The International Maritime Bureau recorded a total of 115 incidents of piracy and armed robbery against ships in 2022 - compared to 132 in 2021. This is the lowest number in almost three decades. Half of the incidents occurred in Southeast Asian waters, particularly in...

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Brazil: Rubber blocks washed up from German wrecks

Brazil: Rubber blocks washed up from German wrecks

Gepostet von | 15 Jan 2023 | , , | 0

From a report in the Neue Züricher Zeitung Brown bales have been washing up on the beaches of Brazil's north-east for years. Initially referred to as "mystery boxes", they now number several hundred, are the size of toolboxes, overgrown with all kinds of sea creatures and weigh between 80 and 200 kilograms. Now such finds have also been made on the beaches in the far south of Brazil near Sao Paulo. Raw rubber from the Far East Marine biologists from Labomar (Marine Science Institute - Federal University of Ceara) trace the origin of these packets of raw rubber back to German blockade runners who, during the Second World War, were transporting the material, which was important for the war economy, from...

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Expensive LNG: Command back on two ferries

Expensive LNG: Command back on two ferries

Gepostet von | 12 Jan 2023 | , , , | 0

High LNG costs are forcing Norwegian Fjord Lines, based in Egersund, to convert two LNG-powered ferries to run on traditional marine gas oil (MGO). "The energy crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to exceptional volatility and significant price increases for LNG - and the price increases have been far higher than for traditional and less sustainable marine energy sources. ... This has led to a dramatic increase in energy costs for Fjord Line's two LNG-fuelled vessels, which is well above a financially sustainable level," the company explained. First LNG ferries Since last autumn...

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Study: Impact of China's port development projects on the maritime environment

Study: Impact of China's port development projects on the maritime environment

Gepostet von | 27 Dec 2022 | , , , | 0

As reported by "The Maritime Executive" at the beginning of December, a study by various US universities shows the dangerous effects for socio-ecological marine systems of the port development projects being aggressively pursued by China, particularly in the Caribbean and around Africa. It is well known that China lures many developing countries into long-term debt through port, power plant and road investments in order to be able to exert intensive influence by acquiring ownership and utilisation rights. A good 20 per cent of all Chinese financing initiatives for development projects abroad - a volume of almost USD 65 billion - come from the China Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank...

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Mobile phone at the helm and WhatsApp on the bridge

Mobile phone at the helm and WhatsApp on the bridge

Gepostet von | 16 Dec 2022 | , , | 1

The 20,000 TEU container freighter "Ever Given", wedged diagonally into the embankment in the Suez Canal with the prominent white inscription of the shipping company EVERGREEN (Taiwan) on the frog-green side of the ship, is still a fond memory for anyone involved in shipping. Less spectacular and also having a much smaller impact on international goods traffic was an accident that occurred on 13 March 2022 to the "Ever Forward", a container ship from Hong Kong with a capacity of 11,850 TEU, which was also unmistakably labelled EVERGREEN, after a missed course change before entering Norfolk/Virginia: it ran squarely into the really sticky silt of the Chesapeake Bay at full speed and was unable to...

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