By K. Oanh Ha (Bloomberg) — Unilever Plc and other big retail brands are among consumer giants adopting a toolkit to audit their shipping supply chains… Weiterlesen »Retail Brands Pledge Supply Chain Audit to Help Seafarers Stranded by COVID-19

A group of the leading seafarer welfare charities and other shipping industry stakeholders have launched a $1 million emergency relief fund to support seafarers and… Weiterlesen »Crew Welfare Charities Launch Fund to Help Indian Seafarers Amid Surging Virus Cases

By Alex Lennane (The Loadstar) – Japanese carrier ONE has followed the decision by a string of airlines to ban the shipment of Vivo Y20 mobile… Weiterlesen »ONE Follows Air Cargo Cargo Carriers with Ban on Vivo Phones

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, May 5 (Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has begun a key step for the eventual… Weiterlesen »CDC Advances Plan for Return to Cruising

Salvage crews started removing the fuel from SEACOR Power’s fuel tanks on Monday, kicking off salvage operations of the overturned lift boat off the coast… Weiterlesen »Salvage Crews Arrive at SEACOR Power Wreck

Press release – ABSG Consulting Inc. (ABS Consulting), a leading global operational risk management company, is strengthening their managed services offering for operational technology (OT)… Weiterlesen »ABS Consulting Partners with Obrela to Pioneer Managed Services for Operational Technology

By Hugh Bronstein and Maximilian Heath BUENOS AIRES, May 5 (Reuters) – Argentina’s Parana River, the grains superhighway that takes soy and corn from the… Weiterlesen »Low Water on Parana River ‘Trims’ Argentine Farm Exports

The world’s largest container shipping line A.P. Moller – Maersk reported an “exceptionally strong” first quarter, with the company benefitting from strong pandemic-fueled demand and… Weiterlesen »Maersk Reports Pandemic-Fueled Record First Quarter

By Eric Martin (Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden’s chief trade negotiator pledged to build off the deal with China reached under Donald Trump and said that… Weiterlesen »Biden Trade Chief Pledges to Build Off Trump’s China Agreement

May 5 (Reuters) – The Baltic exchange’s main sea freight index rose on Wednesday, its highest since mid-2010, boosted by gains across vessel segments. *… Weiterlesen »Baltic Dry Index Rises to Highest Level Since June 2010