After being sold to Kuwait Livestock Transport & Trading (KLTT) in March, the former Wellard livestock carrier Ocean Shearer has completed her first voyage - one that KLTT says delivered a record animal welfare performance.
As the UK government announces plans for coming out of COVID-19 lockdwon, the UK Chamber of Shipping has urged it to exempt seafarers and maritime workers from any quarantine restrictions and to provide industry with urgent clarification on the rules around the 14-day quarantine.
As a significant contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the marine shipping industry is under significant pressure to meet ambitious carbon emission reductions of half the 2008 level by 2050. And the answer -- as Bob Dylan famously sang -- is blowing in the wind.
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TRUMP VETOES IRAN WAR POWERS RESOLUTION, CALLING IT AN "INSULT" President Trump has vetoed a bipartisan resolution requiring congressional approval for the military use of force in Iran, declaring the resolution an "insult" crafted by Democrats to win the November election.
The continued strength of the iron ore price is surprising, given the collapse of oil, which traders have recently been willing to pay buyers for if they’ll agree to offload full tankers. Oil and iron ore are the two most basic commodities of industrial economies and, through much of
Daily we see the stories of how people and societies are coping with the pandemic including the effects of living in isolation, such as loneliness, mental illness, boredom, anxiety and depression. Yet there is another significant group of people who are out of sight yet on whom our societies depend
Do you work on the water in the maritime or offshore energy industries? If so, you are an active contributor to safety of life at sea. The shipboard family and fellow mariners are a seafarer’s lifeline to food, water, shelter, and safety; a unique lifestyle of complex and multidimensi
Cruise ships have been taking on a new role transporting the different lines' crew home as the public health crisis continues. In recent days, ships have been dispatched from North America sailing for Asia and Europe with crew members aboard.
In an effort to draw attention to the needs of the 150,000 seafarers trapped at sea by the COVID-19 shutdown, the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) asked ships around the world to sound their horns when in port at 1200 local time
