The U.S. Navy announced that it has incorporated lessons learned from the initial COVID-19 outbreaks onboard USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Kidd into guidance to sustain underway operations while fighting the virus during future outbreaks at sea. The changes in policy came as a comprehensive report on the outbreak aboard the aircraft carrier was also released. […]
Canada is joining the list of nations responding to the growing calls to address the challenges in completing crew changes due to the restrictions designed to stop the spread of the coronavirus. A broad collation of shipping organizations, maritime associations, ship owners, and labor are all calling for action to address the growing humanitarian crisis […]
The Climate Partnership for a Blue Denmark, representing Denmark’s shipping industry, has developed its plan as part of the nation’s overall effort to address climate change and achieve carbon neutrality. For its part, the shipping industry is targeting carbon neutrality by 2050, without the use of climate compensation. To achieve that goal, it also targeting […]
A unique configuration of wind turbine that rotates on a horizontal transverse-axis to wind direction offers promise to sail a vessel directly into a headwind. The layout was originally intended to be installed atop tall buildings to quietly convert wind energy into electric power. There is scope to evaluate the Magnus/Flettner rotor for installation on […]
Norwegian shipbuilder Vard has been hit with a ransomware encryption cyberattack, the company confirmed Tuesday. According to local outlet Vestnesavisa, the attack affected Vard’s Langsten shipyard. “It is true that Vard is affected by a data breach. But what kind of data breach and what consequences this has for the company, we do not want to […]
The U.S. Navy and the Marine Corps have moved to ban the public display of the Confederate battle flag at all installations, reflecting growing sensitivity to racial bias in the wake of the police-reform protest movement. “The Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Mike Gilday, has directed his staff to begin crafting an order that would […]
As the air logistics industry struggles back to resume its vital role, there is a greater than ever need to reduce costs and for more transparency and efficiency in all aspects of the supply chain process. This is especially true of ground operations where cargo can often be delayed unnecessarily thus creating expensive and unacceptable […]
“[Some] 3.5 billion respiratory protection masks and other protective equipment in 22,000 shipments plus medical equipment and pharmaceuticals as well as urgently required industrial goods, post, packages and food for the German and European markets. That sums up air cargo in Frankfurt since the worldwide lockdown due to the SARS-COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March”, says Harald […]
Last month, Rhenus Air & Ocean moved from Herstal in Belgium to its new location some 20 kilometres away at Liège Airport. The reason behind the move is its strategically advantageous position in the “Golden Triangle” between Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris. At the new branch, Rhenus Air & Ocean plans to offer multimodal solutions and […]
With closed-border policies and countries’ restrictions, transporting patients, health professionals, medical supplies or carrying out urgent missions like delivering stem cells and organs for transplants have been the major challenges for LATAM Airlines Group’s Solidary Plane programme in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. Due to its commitment and effort during the pandemic, the Solidary […]
International logistics provider GEODIS is ensuring the safe transport of the cargo from China to Germany. The freight forwarding unit of GEODIS in Germany won this major contract of 275 tonnes in a public tender from the German government. Around 50,000 boxes of gloves will be transported in five shipments from Chengdu, in the Chinese […]
The COVID-19 pandemic makes travelling impossible for the moment. Postponement of planned dockings may be possible in some cases, but sooner or later one will run into hard, rule-based deadlines. (Here are overviews of the current policies from flag- and port-states as well as classification societies.) Will it be at all possible to run remote […]
