Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, United Cargo had supported a variety of customers within the healthcare industry for over 10 years. Three solutions, TempControl, LifeGuard and QuickPak, protect the integrity of vital shipments such as precision medicine, pharmaceuticals, biologics, medical equipment and vaccines. By utilising processes like temperature monitoring, thermodynamic management and priority boarding and […]
[By Todd Woody] The COVID-19 pandemic does not appear to have hindered the distant-water fleets of China and other major fishing nations, but it has largely sidelined the fishery observers and port officials who monitor illegal fishing. “In most of the South Pacific, fishery inspectors cannot come onboard the vessel to do inspections before authorising” […]
Working with U.S. and Dutch forces, a Royal Navy task group has intercepted drugs worth more than $200 million in the Caribbean. RFA Argus, alongside her Wildcat and Merlin helicopters, Royal Marines and US Coast Guard teams, worked with Dutch Navy ship HNLMS Groningen to seize 1.7 tonnes of cocaine and 28 kilos of amphetamines. […]
Lebanese investigators have requested the arrest of the owner and the captain of the freighter Rhosus. The Rhosus arrived in Beirut in 2013 with a cargo of explosives-grade ammonium nitrate, and after the owner abandoned the crew and the ship over unpaid port fees, Lebanese officials offloaded the cargo and left it in a minimally-guarded […]
Contractors have demolished a U.S.-built facility at Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base, adding further impetus to reports that the Cambodian government has struck a deal with China for the refurbishment and use of the site. According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the building was the former Tactical Headquarters of Cambodia’s National Committee for […]
[By Malcolm Davis and Charlie Lyons Jones] On September 15, China successfully launched the Long March-11 solid propellant launch vehicle off a merchant vessel in the Yellow Sea. This was the second such sea-based launch of a rocket conducted by China, with the first taking place on June 5 last year. The launch, overseen by the Taiyuan Satellite […]
Data is the building block for today’s world. As businesses evolve to keep pace with shifting industries, we must rely on increasing amounts of accurate and timely data to make fast, smart decisions. The primary function of a data warehouse is the ability to receive data from multiple sources and in various formats, classify and […]
On Friday, Air Force pararescue jumpers and a U.S. Navy helicopter crew medevaced the 73-year-old captain of the commercial fishing vessel Lady Alice at a position about 150 miles east of Hilo, Hawaii. At 0740 hours on Monday, the owner of the Lady Alice told the Coast Guard that the master of the vessel was […]
Damen Shipyards Group has been awarded a contract to design a new Offshore Terminal Tug for Edison Chouest Offshore. Chouest will initially build two ASD Tugs 5016 at its Louisiana shipyard. The contract builds upon the well-established partnership between the two companies. Chouest has, to date, built twelve Damen ASD Tugs 3212 and five Damen ASD Tugs […]
In a new report released Friday, the British Ports Association (BPA) expressed its opposition to a government policy that would effectively raise taxes on the off-highway diesel fuel that ports use to power everyday operations. The BPA estimates that the end of the $2.26-per-gallon tax rebate in 2022 would increase ports’ costs by about three percent […]
The Norwegian Oil and Gas Association (NOG) warned Friday that a strike action by the managers’ and technicians’ union Lederne could affect production on six offshore oil fields beginning next week. If all were to go offline, it would represent a shut-in for 330,000 boepd of capacity on the Norwegian Continental Shelf – about eight […]
The US Coast Guard had a busy week responding to the grounding of a bulker in Virginia, a containership in Oregon that lost power, and managing the containment and clean up of oil leaking from a containership with a small crack in its hull in New Jersey. The first grounding call came from the Panamanian-flagged […]
