Archive for February, 2009
Poverty, Hypocrisy and Armada are not the Lyses for the Piracy Drama
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Among the achievements of the 21st century was the revival of the phenomenon of piracy. The media apart from the weather report have also the Terrorists Report, multinational companies’ and banks’ bankruptcy report due to the world economical crisis and the piracy report. This is very useful because one becomes aware of the bulkers seized, [...]
Medium and small size Chinese shipyards to face stiff challenge
It is reported that large sized shipyards will surely benefit from the revitalization plan of shipbuilding industry in China. By comparison, medium and small size ones are likely to be washed out firstly amid the sluggish market. Reporters from Shanghai Securities News learnt that medium and small size shipyards in Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong had [...]
TANKERS GET PILOTS FOR FREE – IN BUZZARDS BAY
TANKERS sailing through Buzzards bay, off Massachusetts, US, will able to use the services of pilots free of charge. If owners do not use their services and their ships cause pollution they will be liable to three times the normal fines.
As of March 1, 2009, the owner or operator of a tanker carrying 6,000 barrels [...]
Precious Says Third of Global Ships to Be Scrapped in Two Years
Precious Shipping Pcl, Thailand’s largest shipping company by market value, expects a third of the global merchant fleet to be scrapped within two years as trade collapses amid a global recession and tighter credit.
“The banking system is destroyed,” Chief Executive Officer Khalid Hashim said at a shipping conference in Singapore yesterday. “China’s stimulus plan will [...]
Miliband calls for clean shipping fuels
CLIMATE change minister Ed Miliband has called for the shipping industry to switch to cleaner fuels to cut harmful emissions polluting port cities such as Southampton.
Speaking during the Cabinet’s “away day” in the city on Monday, he told the Daily Echo his department was working towards an international agreement to cut shipping emissions.
It comes four [...]
IMO team to study pollution guidelines in Alang
Rajkot: An International Maritime Organisation (IMO) delegation will be visiting Asia’s
largest ship recycling yard at Alang in Bhavnagar on Wednesday to study the implementation of IMO guidelines on pollution, safety and health.
The delegation will later prepare a report on Alang-Sosiya Ship Recycling Yard. The 20-member delegation is headed by IMO implementation officer for marine [...]
India: Port, dock workers to go on indefinite strike from March 10
Kochi, Feb. 23 The five major federations of port and dock workers representing 66,000 workers of 11 major ports in the country have served notice to go on indefinite strike from March 10.
The federations comprising Water Transport Workers Federation of India, All India Port and Dock Workers Federation, All India Port and Dock Workers Federation [...]
IMO hosts meetings of Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia
The Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Efthimios E. Mitropoulos, today (24 February 2009) opened the first meeting of a Working Group charged with considering modalities for operational coordination and information-sharing, the possible establishment of a regional coordination centre and regional capability development, in the context of on-going efforts [...]
Cargo vessels wait for berths as Kochi port strike continues
The ongoing strike by shore workers belonging to Cochin Thuramugha Thozilali Union (CTT) since Friday evening has resulted in the waiting of two bulk cargo vessels at the outer anchorage of the port.
One vessel carrying with 43,500 tonnes of coal for the public sector HNL had arrived on Monday morning and the other vessel is [...]
BUSINESS AS USUAL SOMALI PIRATES STRIKE AGAIN
PIRATES seized the Greek-owned vessel Saldanha yesterday and sailed it towards the Somali coast. A British Royal Navy warship, HMS Northumberland, detected that the ship was on an unusual course and met up with her sometime after the hijacking but did not intervene.
A BBC correspondent on the Northumberland identified the Saldanha as a “containership” but [...]
