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With Sailors Stranded, Shipping Faces...

April 9, 2020 by Bloomberg Photo: by miquelito / Shutterstock.com By Adam Minter (Bloomberg Opinion) — Before the pandemic, 100,000 seafarers traveled...

posted on: Apr 9, 2020

French Carrier Returns to Port...

French Carrier Returns to Port With 40 Suspected COVID-19 Cases 9 April 2020 Maritime Executive Charles de Gaulle (file...

posted on: Apr 9, 2020

BIMCO: Shipbuilding Orders Fall Off...

BIMCO: Shipbuilding Orders Fall Off Due to Market Uncertainty File image Shipowners’ association BIMCO reports that orders for new...

posted on: Apr 9, 2020

COVID-19: European Commission adopts Guidelines...

COVID-19: European Commission adopts Guidelines on protection of health, repatriation and travel arrangements for seafarers, passengers and other persons...

posted on: Apr 9, 2020

Naweed Omar 16E receives the AMSA (Australia Marine Safety Authority) Values in Action Award...

posted on: Apr 8, 2020

Naweed Omar 16E has received the AMSA (Australia Marine Safety Authority) Values in Action Award Naweed Omar 16E has received the AMSA Values in Action Award for the end-year 2019. This is an award to recognize the contributions and achievements of an individual or team across AMSA. The award is given twice a year, mid-year and end-year. This is the highest recognition for an AMSA employee who makes a positive contribution and demonstrates dedication to ensure ASMA delivers on its objectives. Our Chowdhury Sadaruddin 19E received the end-year award for 2017 followed by Qamruzzaman 11E the mid-year award for 2018 (http://juldians.org/2018/10/amsa-awards-m-quamruzzaman-11e-with-value-in-action/). Now Naweed achieving the end-year award for 2019. This is an excellent feat for Bangladeshi Mariners in AMSA, a hat trick in three years in a row considering there are about 450 employees. Naweed has always been considered a valuable member and asset for AMSA by his team and AMSA...

Dr. Sajid Hussain elected as a trustee of the IMarEST...

posted on: Apr 8, 2020

Dr. Sajid Hussain elected as a trustee of the IMarEST 8 April 2020 IMarEST is governed by its members through their elected representatives on Council and the Board of Trustees (BoT) as well as a number of Committees of Council. The IMarEST Executive implement the work of IMarEST from locations across the globe. The Board of Trustees is the IMarEST’s governing body and has responsibility for policy and strategic matters. Commandant Dr. Sajid Hussain has been elected as a trustee of the IMarEST, London, HQ. Five (5) new Trustees, including The Commandant of Bangladesh Marine Academy (BMA) Chattogram, Dr. Sajid Hussain, has been elected for a 3 year term in the last IMarEST Council AGM (held remotely from London due to CODID 19) on 3 April 2020. For Commandant Dr. Sajid Hussain, by being in the BoT is an honour for himself as well as for BMA. It brings...

Bunkering And Covid-19

posted on: Apr 8, 2020

Bunkering And Covid-19 in Marine Insurance P&I Club News 08/04/2020 COVID-19 has created a number of challenges for shipowners relevant to compliance with the January 1, 2020 amendments to the MARPOL 73/78 Convention, Annex VI, regulation 18, Fuel Oil Quality. The “MARPOL delivered sample” as per MARPOL73/78, Annex VI, regulation 18 is the mandatory sampling which needs to be taken during the entire bunker supply operation in the presence of all parties, i.e. vessel personnel, bunker supplier and, if present, the bunker inspector (see the attached diagram). It is important that all parties involved should establish prior knowledge about the local regulations of the port in which the bunkering is to take place. The shipowner’s surveyor, vessel’s Chief Engineer or other representative, charterer’s surveyor and bunker supplier representative should then agree a COVID-19 survey protocol, including their policies in regard to physical contact, before bunker operations are commenced. At...

Captain Ghulam Hussain (11 UK) appointed as the Deputy Director, Maritime Affairs, in The Bahamas Maritime Authority (BMA)...

posted on: Apr 8, 2020

It was with great pleasure we learned of the following news: 8 April 2020 Dear Fellow Mariners, Assalaamu Alaikum and Good Day While COVID-19 pandemic effect is at the forefront of our daily life there is a pleasant news. Captain Ghulam Hussain (11 UK) has been appointed as the Deputy Director, Maritime Affairs, in the London office of The Bahamas Maritime Authority (BMA)In the first week of May 2020 he will be leaving the post of the Technical Manager & Head of IMO Delegation of The Nautical Institute, London head office and joining BMA.I take this opportunity to inform you that while developing his career he continued to pursue higher education and obtained MBA in Shipping and Logistics from the Middlesex University in 2013 and obtained LLM in International Maritime Law from the World Maritime University in 2017.Amongst others, he is a Fellow of The Nautical Institute, The Institute of...

Covid-19 continues to batter imports, exports

posted on: Apr 8, 2020

Covid-19 continues to batter imports, exports | The Business Standard 7 April 2020 Bangladesh saw a Tk4,500 crore fall in imports and nearly Tk5,400 crore in exports in March The global shipping industry slowed to the point that a greater tonnage of container ships was idled around the world in February than during the worst points of the 2008 financial crisis. Photo: Reuters Imports and exports through the Chattogram Port declined in March by over 12 percent and 26 percent, respectively, due to the damaging effects of the novel coronavirus on the entire globe. In February, too, imports had fallen by 16 percent from January, according to analysis by the customs value data of imported and exported goods available at the port city’s customs house. Businesspeople fear the country’s imports and exports will further decrease in the coming days because the worsened coronavirus situation at the beginning of April. Almost 92...

NBR steps in to ease Ctg port gridlock

posted on: Apr 8, 2020

NBR steps in to ease Ctg port gridlock | The Daily Star April 08, 2020 Sohel Parvez The National Board of Revenue yesterday widened the scope to assess the duty of more imported items in order to ease the burden on the Chattogram port that is mired in container congestion. Because of the relaxation almost all goods can now be cleared save for those that were brought in for trading purpose, said a senior official of the NBR. The revenue board particularly asked its field offices to facilitate clearance of capital machinery and parts, agricultural equipment and components, ingredients of poultry and fish feeds and the goods imported under diplomatic privilege and brought into the country by public, semi-government and autonomous organisations. The latest directive came a week after the NBR asked the field offices to process documents for the clearance of imported industrial raw materials. Initially, it had...

Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly Resigns in Wake of USS Roosevelt Comments...

posted on: Apr 7, 2020

Official berated former captain of the aircraft carrier, who asked for more help in combatting coronavirus Navy officials say 230 crew members from the USS Theodore Roosevelt tested positive for coronavirus as of Tuesday. Photo: nguyen huy kham/Reuters By Gordon Lubold April 7, 2020 Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned on Tuesday following an uproar after he excoriated the former captain of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, whose crew had become stricken with the coronavirus, according to U.S. military officials. Navy Secretary Thomas Modly, above, told the crew of the USS Roosevelt that its former captain, Brett Crozier, ‘was either too naive or too stupid to be a commanding officer of a ship like this.’ Photo: Alex Brandon/Associated Press Mr. Modly was under pressure to resign after an extraordinary chain of events over the last two weeks that has plunged the Navy into disarray as it...

No one can enter or leave Chattogram city until further notice: CMP...

posted on: Apr 7, 2020

No one can enter or leave Chattogram city until further notice: CMP The Business Standard 7 April 2020The directive will take effect from Monday 10 pm and remain effective till further noticePhoto: Salahuddin Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) on Monday said no individual or vehicle except for emergency services will be allowed to enter or leave the port city. CMP Commissioner Mahabubur Rahman told The Business Standard that the directive will take effect from Monday 10 pm and remain effective till further notice. The CMP has imposed the restrictions on the movement of people and all kinds of transport to stem the spread of coronavirus, according to a CMP press release. Check-posts have already been set up at city’s five entry points – City Gate, Oxygen Intersection, Kaptai Intersection, Kalurghat Bridge and Shah Amanat Bridge. Besides, such check-posts have also been set up at various points inside the port...

Launch of Emergency Funding Campaign for Developing World Seafarers...

posted on: Apr 7, 2020

Launch of Emergency Funding Campaign for Developing World Seafarers | in International Shipping News 07/04/2020 Monday saw the launch of a charity crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for developing world seafarers and their families that have been severely impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic. While much of the shipping industry take their responsibilities to their seafarers very seriously, there is still a real challenge facing many seafarers from the poorer regions of the world. Many are in lockdown with casual contracts and unable to work; others are facing difficulties due to lockdowns when they leave ships and are unable to return to their families with costs and little income coming in; and there are even some reports of seafarers being shunned on their return to their homes for fears of the virus. There is also the issue of their families not having income in order to get by and the...

Ships’ Demolition Market Facing the Doldrums...

posted on: Apr 7, 2020

Ships’ Demolition Market Facing the Doldrums in Hellenic Shipping News 07/04/2020 Among other subsegments of the shipping market, one of the most heavily impacted by the current lockdown situation in many countries around the world, is the demolition segment. In its latest weekly market report, shipbroker Clarkson Platou Hellas said that “with the Indian sub-continent having endured its first full week of lockdown, it is now an extremely difficult and unknown time for the industry with tonnage still arriving at the delivery anchorage unable to commence their custom formalities to gain inward clearances into the destinations as the port closures remain in force, and Bangladesh extending their lockdown further till the 12th April. This has placed both the Owners and cash buyers in very difficult and challenging positions with reportedly some cash buyers commencing ‘Force Majeure’ claims. It leaves the delivery of many vessels in the balance and with...

[Updated] Over 150 USS Theodore Roosevelt Sailors Test Positive...

posted on: Apr 6, 2020

Over 150 USS Theodore Roosevelt Sailors Test Positive Credit: U.S. Navy As of Sunday, 50 percent of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt crew had been tested for COVID-19, with 155 positive cases so far. So far there have been no hospitalizations. 1,825 Sailors have moved ashore to hotels in Guam. The Commander of U.S. 7th Fleet Vice Adm. Bill Merz visited USS Theodore Roosevelt leadership in port at Naval Base Guam on April 5. “Know that every day, regardless of what the challenge may be, my number one priority is to sustain the warfighting posture of 7th Fleet, and the most important element of this number one priority is the Sailors,” said Merz. “We simply cannot execute the mission of defending our interests, our friends, and our allies without the fighting spirit of the immensely capable men and women of this team.” The ship arrived in Guam on March 27...

Ships Are Moving, but Exhausted Sailors Are Stuck at Sea Under Coronavirus Restrictions...

posted on: Apr 6, 2020

Ships Are Moving, but Exhausted Sailors Are Stuck at Sea Under Coronavirus Restrictions in International Shipping News 06/04/2020 Oceangoing shipping companies, already hit by crumbling demand and fractured supply chains from the coronavirus pandemic, are facing another problem on their vessels. Thousands of seafarers can’t travel to man ships, leaving growing numbers of crews around the world exhausted and facing illness at sea. Replacing crews is a complicated operation that involves flying a total of more than 100,000 sailors industrywide around the world every month to connect with ships at far-flung ports. The seafarers often replace crew members who have been at sea for months at a time, with occasional brief breaks on land while containers, iron ore, grains and other goods are loaded and unloaded. But the widespread travel restrictions countries have imposed to rein back the spread of the coronavirus have made such movement nearly impossible. “I...

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