Category: Shipping

Hunting yachts part II

Hunting yachts part II

Gepostet von | 16 Mar 2022 | , , , | 0

The Washington Post literally called it "schadenfreude at sea" - Oligarchs already trying to "go dark" There seems to be something satisfying about following the movements of luxury yachts online, as people around the globe gloat about what problems the oligarchs are having and use Twitter, for example, to gleefully post the names, locations, ownership and current status of various yachts. People are watching and reporting on how governments around the world are seizing the assets of Russian oligarchs as part of the sanctions for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. While money can often be hidden and moved between offshore bank accounts, it is more difficult to seize a mega yacht...

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Crews leave their ships in Ukraine

Crews leave their ships in Ukraine

Gepostet von | 16 Mar 2022 | , , | 0

Shipowners have started to ask the crews of ships stranded off the Ukrainian coast to leave. M.T. Maritime has evacuated 22 Filipino seafarers from its oil tanker MTM Rio Grande and left the vessel unmanned in the Ukrainian port of Nika-Tera. The crew is currently in Romania awaiting a return flight to the Philippines, the company announced. The Ukrainian ports were closed on 24 February when the Russian troops began their invasion. At least five of the 140 ships stuck in the country's waters were damaged by shelling. One Bangladeshi sailor was killed. As the fierce...

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Better protection for the harbour porpoise in the Baltic Sea

Better protection for the harbour porpoise in the Baltic Sea

Gepostet von | 14 Mar 2022 | , , , | 0

EU regulation to reduce by-catches in marine protected areas A new EU regulation to better protect harbour porpoises came into force at the end of February. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the harbour porpoise population in the central Baltic Sea is threatened with extinction and comprises fewer than 500 animals. The new regulation bans gillnet fishing in German marine protected areas for three months of the year, which is when harbour porpoises are most abundant. The aim of the regulation is to prevent harbour porpoises from dying as by-catches in gillnets. The measures of the new EU regulation (2022/303) apply to the German protected area "Pomeranian Bay - Rönnebank" and the protected area...

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Princess Anne visits Global Mercy

Princess Anne visits Global Mercy

Gepostet von | 9 Mar 2022 | , , | 0

The Princess Royal met the crew and inaugurated the ship Princess Royal Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise visited the Global Mercy and took part in an inauguration ceremony. Princess Anne has been the patron of Mercy Ships since 2021. She had already visited the Africa Mercy hospital ship during a mission in Sierra Leone in 2011, and the visit to the Global Mercy was the first official Mercy Ships appointment that the Princess attended in her role as patron. Among other things, Princess Anne visited the hospital on board and spoke with volunteers. She paid tribute to the crew's commitment. At the end of the visit, she attended an inauguration ceremony...

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Wirtschaftsverband Weser: The Upper Weser must remain a shipping route

Wirtschaftsverband Weser: The Upper Weser must remain a shipping route

Gepostet von | 9 Mar 2022 | , , | 0

Heavy load transports on the Upper Weser take up to 325 tonnes - as much as two Boeing 747 jumbo jets - weighs the transformer, which is transported by barge from the Ruhr region via the Upper Weser. Thomas Lippel, Head of the Waterways Department at the Weser Waterways and Shipping Authority, coordinates the loading. The transformer station at the former nuclear power plant site in Würgassen will receive new, modern transformers that will distribute electricity to hundreds of thousands of households in the Upper Weser Valley region as well as to the cities of Hanover, Kassel and Göttingen. Heavy goods transport such as transformers, but also rotors for wind turbines or other machine parts, are finding inland waterway transport increasingly attractive. The days of freight shipping...

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