The challenges of Europe’s migrant crisis and how it is being compounded by the coronavirus is again coming to light with reports that a teenage migrant boy died after being held offshore on a ferry that is serving as an Italian quarantine center. The 15-year-old boy from Cote d’Ivoire in West Africa reportedly died after […]
In the latest scare, more than 700 cruise passengers aboard a deluxe Norwegian ferry may have been exposed to the COVID-19 virus. According to the Norwegian health authorities, a passenger tested positive after returning from a two-day cruise prompting alerts to all of the passengers and a contact tracing program. Color Line, a Norwegian operator […]
A recent series in Forbes on the Wakashio grounding and the state of the shipping industry has attracted considerable attention. Some of its assumptions and interpretations are worth further examination, and in the interest of objectivity, a detailed analysis with supporting data follows below. Assumption 1: Shipping is a boom industry The cyclical nature of shipping […]
The cruise industry is continuing to cancel cruises into the end of 2020 and beyond, despite the expressed optimism from the executives of the largest companies saying that they believed the restart of cruising from the United States would happen before year’s end. While the industry’s official position reported by the trade group Cruise Line […]
Saying that seafarers have become collateral victims of the measures to curb COVID-19, the United Nation’s human rights organizations added their voice to the many organizations calling for more actions. Highlighting an “unparalleled crisis” affecting hundreds of thousands of crew members and maritime workers, the UN organizations called on the business sector and others involved […]
FedEx Express, the world’s largest express transportation company, honours its workforce by naming its latest aircraft after a team member’s child. Samuel, 11 from Stockton on Tees in the Northeast of England, is the latest child to have a FedEx Express Boeing 757 named in his honour as part of the FedEx Aircraft Naming Programme. […]
SAS has started flying between Copenhagen and Shanghai again, marking the carrier’s return to Asia. The route is operated by a brand new Airbus #A350, a state-of-the-art aircraft that is one of the most modern and fuel-efficient in the industry, emitting up to 30% less than previous comparable aircraft. This fully loaded A350 took off […]
IAG Cargo continues to expand its network and re-open more routes. It has now restarted regular services to five key African cities – Lagos, Cairo, Cape Town, Abuja and Accra – as the business continues to support global trade via its extensive worldwide network. IAG Cargo has been serving cities in Africa throughout the summer, with daily services to […]
China’s air cargo transport has maintained gradual recovery momentum with cargo volume in August reaching 86.7% of that in last August, according to the civil aviation authorities. The country’s civil aviation industry handled a total of 546,000 tonnes of air freight in August, statistics from the Civil Aviation Administration of China showed. Both domestic and […]
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has operated the An-124-100 charter flight for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to assist the US firefighting mission in California. The two fire engines and a Ford F-250 pickup truck, weighing more than 20 tonnes in total, were delivered from Atlantic City, New Jersey to San Francisco, California after all the documentation […]
[By Britta Denise Hardesty, Chris Wilcox and Justine Barrett] Nowhere, it seems, is immune from plastic pollution: plastic has been reported in the high Arctic oceans, in the sea ice around Antarctica and even in the world’s deepest waters of the Mariana Trench. But just how bad is the problem? Our new research provides the first […]
Norwegian managers’ and engineers’ union Lederne said Tuesday that it will expand its offshore oil platform strike to cover four more fields if it cannot reach a contract agreement with the Norwegian Oil and Gas Association (NOG) by October 10. The expansion of the strike would cover ConocoPhillips’ Ekofisk Bravo and Kilo, along with Equinor’s Kristin, […]
