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How the Supply Chain Broke,...

The New York Times How the Supply Chain Broke, and Why It Won’t Be Fixed Anytime Soon Confession: We...

posted on: Oct 24, 2021

সমুদ্রবন্দরসমূহে ৩ নম্বর সতর্ক সংকেত...

সমুদ্রবন্দরসমূহে ৩ নম্বর সতর্ক সংকেত নয়া দিগন্ত অনলাইন১৮ অক্টোবর ২০২১ – চট্টগ্রাম, কক্সবাজার, মংলা ও পায়রা সমুদ্রবন্দরসমূহকে তিন নম্বর...

posted on: Oct 18, 2021

Nepal can use Mongla and...

Nepal can use Mongla and Paira ports: PM Hasina Prothom Alo English Desk 17 Oct 2021 Nepalese ambassador Banshidhar...

posted on: Oct 18, 2021

Confronting the sexual abuse narrative...

Confronting the sexual abuse narrative pervading an indifferent shipping industry 14th October 2021 Human Rights at Sea EDITORIAL 14...

posted on: Oct 17, 2021

BMAAA Notice 01/21: JMAAA & ABMAA already merged...

posted on: Oct 14, 2021

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Coca-Cola Turns to Bulkers Amid Container Shipping’s Chaos...

posted on: Oct 11, 2021

Coca-Cola Turns to Bulkers Amid Container Shipping’s Chaos By Tappasan Phurisamrit / Shutterstock Coca-Cola Turns to Bulkers Amid Container Shipping’s Chaos Mike Schuler Total Views: 18983 October 5, 2021 Share this article The chaos in container shipping has forced some brands like Home Depot, Ikea and Costco to get creative with their supply chains. We can now add The Coca-Cola Company to the list. According to Alan Smith, a Procurement Director of Global Logistics at the beverage giant, the shortage of shipping containers and space on ships has had the company thinking outside the box (or containers) for its supply chain. In a social media post, Smith revealed the company loaded 3 bulk carriers last week with 60,000 tonnes of materials to keep productions lines running across the world. This is equivalent of 2,800 TEU that would have been shipped on containerships, Smith said. While not quite the strategy...

MV Rena Shipwreck: New Zealand’s Worst Maritime Disaster in Photos...

posted on: Oct 11, 2021

MV Rena Shipwreck: New Zealand’s Worst Maritime Disaster in Photos Rena seen separated in two pieces after spending months shipwrecked on the reef. Photo taken January 8, 2012. Image Credit: Maritime NZ MV Rena Shipwreck: New Zealand’s Worst Maritime Disaster in Photos Mike Schuler October 5, 2021 gCaptain The MV Rena was traveling at a speed of 17 knots when it grounded on Astrolabe Reef off the coast of New Zealand on October 5, 2011, during a voyage from Napier to port of Tauranga. At the time, the ship was carrying over 1,300 containers and 1,733 tonnes of heavy fuel. What resulted became the country’s worst maritime environmental disaster which took years to clean-up. Investigators eventually found that it was the failure of the master and crew to follow proper voyage planning, navigation and watchkeeping practices, as well as the ship manager’s insufficient oversight of vessel’s safety management system, as the...

China’s Energy Crisis Is Hitting Everything From iPhones to Milk...

posted on: Oct 11, 2021

China’s Energy Crisis Is Hitting Everything From iPhones to Milk Yantian Port Free Trade Zone. File photo editorial credit: Weiming Xie / Shutterstock.com China’s Energy Crisis Is Hitting Everything From iPhones to Milk Bloomberg Total Views: 2065 October 8, 2021 Share this article By Jeff Sutherland and Tom Hancock (Bloomberg) — The hit from China’s energy crunch is starting to ripple throughout the globe, hurting everyone from Toyota Motor Corp. to Australian sheep farmers and makers of cardboard boxes. The extreme electricity shortage caused by soaring prices of coal in the world’s largest exporter is set to hurt China’s own growth, and the knock-on impact to supply chains could crimp a global economy struggling to emerge from the pandemic. The timing couldn’t be worse, with the shipping industry already facing congested supply lines that are delaying deliveries of clothes and toys for the year-end holidays. It also comes just as...

July-September export earnings witness 11.37 per cent growth...

posted on: Oct 6, 2021

July-September export earnings witness 11.37 per cent growth Prothom Alo English DeskPublished: 04 Oct 2021 Bangladesh export earnings in july-September notched a 11.37 per cent growthProthom Alo file photo The export of goods during the first quarter (July-September) period of the current fiscal year (FY22) made a strong turnaround witnessing a healthy growth of 11.37 per cent thanks to the highest ever single month export earnings of over $4.16 billion last month, reports BSS. The export of goods during this three-month period fetched $11,021.95 million surpassing the strategic target of $10,433 million having a growth of 5.65 per cent over the strategic target. The export performance of Bangladeshi goods in the first quarter of the last fiscal year (FY21) was $9,896.84 million, according to the latest statistics of the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB). The EPB figures showed that the single month export earnings in this September witnessed a whopping...

প্যান্ডোরা পেপারস: আব্দুল আউয়াল মিন্টুর নাম এসেছে...

posted on: Oct 5, 2021

প্যান্ডোরা পেপারস: আব্দুল আউয়াল মিন্টুর নাম এসেছে Abdul Awal Mintoo, BMA 5th batch Nautical সমকাল প্রতিবেদক ০৫ অক্টোবর ২১ আব্দুল আউয়াল মিন্টু অনুসন্ধানী সাংবাদিকদের আন্তর্জাতিক জোট আইসিআইজে প্রকাশিত প্যান্ডোরা পেপারসে বাংলাদেশি ব্যবসায়ী আব্দুল আউয়াল মিন্টুর নাম এসেছে। নেপালের ধনকুবের বিনোদ চৌধুরীর সঙ্গে ব্যবসায়িক সম্পৃক্ত ব্যক্তি হিসেবে মিন্টুর নাম এসেছে। সেন্টার ফর ইনভেস্টিগেটিভ জার্নালিজম, নেপাল (সিআইজে-এন) এ তথ্য প্রকাশ করেছে, যা নিয়ে প্রতিবেদন তৈরি করেছে নেপাল টাইমস। এতে বলা হয়, বিনোদ চৌধুরী ব্রিটিশ ভার্জিন আইল্যান্ডে সিনোভেশন নামে একটি কোম্পানির নিবন্ধন নিয়ে অর্থ পাচার করেছেন। ওই কোম্পানির সঙ্গে বিশ্বের অন্যান্য দেশের যেসব ব্যক্তির লেনদেন বা সংযোগের তথ্য এসেছে, সে তালিকায় রয়েছে বাংলাদেশের ব্যবসায়ী আব্দুল আউয়াল মিন্টুর নাম। তবে মিন্টু ওই কোম্পানির সঙ্গে কোন ধরনের লেনদেন করেছেন, তার কোনো তথ্য নেপাল টাইমসের প্রতিবেদনে নেই। সিআইজে-এন আইসিআইজের অংশীদার সংগঠন। আইসিআইজে প্যান্ডোরা পেপারসের ডাটা উন্মুক্তভাবে প্রকাশ না করলেও অংশীদারদের সঙ্গে বিনিময় করেছে। প্যান্ডোরা পেপারস হচ্ছে আইসিআইজে প্রকাশিত প্রায় ১ কোটি ২০ লাখ নথি ফাঁসের...

Time for an International Standard for Port Cybersecurity...

posted on: Oct 5, 2021

Published Oct 3, 2021 2:54 PM by CIMSEC [By CDR Michael C. Petta] Port industry leaders recently submitted cybersecurity guidelines to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for consideration. The IMO Member States should seize this opportunity and amend the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code to enact cybersecurity standards for ports and port facilities. Specifically, IMO Member States should amend the code, using the new industry guidelines as a model, to require port facilities to conduct regular cybersecurity assessments and develop distinct cybersecurity plans. The IAPH’s Cybersecurity Guidelines for Ports and Port Facilities Earlier this month the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH), a trade association representing ports across the globe, announced the publication of cyber guidelines for ports and port facilities. With help from the World Bank, the IAPH developed these cybersecurity guidelines to mitigate, according to the publication’s executive summary, “the top risk for port authorities and the wider port...

4 decades of unplanned shipbreaking taking toll on agriculture in Sitakunda...

posted on: Oct 2, 2021

4 decades of unplanned shipbreaking taking toll on agriculture in Sitakunda Star News+Sat Oct 2, 2021https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZUyTjT7iJvI?wmode=opaque&controls=1 For the last few years there has been a marked decrease in yield in agricultural land surrounding the Sitakunda shipbreaking yard in Chattogram. Local farmers have complained that most of the flowers in vegetable farms of the area are falling off before harvest time. The Daily Star published a report on the hardships of the farmers in this area. Watch today’s episode of Star News+ to know more about the...

World Maritime Day 2021: Bitter-Sweet and still failing to effectively tackle Impunity and Abuse at Sea...

posted on: Sep 30, 2021

Human Rights at Sea World Maritime Day 2021: Bitter-Sweet and still failing to effectively tackle Impunity and Abuse at Sea 30th September 2021 OPINION 30 September 2021 London. UK. World Maritime Day is celebrated annually on 30 September with a new theme. This year it is framed as “Seafarers: at the core of shipping’s future” which seems ironic that something so obvious (workers enabling businesses to operate) is being so positioned and promoted in 2021. The truth is that it has taken a global pandemic to refocus the shipping sector’s attention on the real critical vulnerability of the assessed $17 Trillion supply chain: the seafarer, along with the protection of their fundamental human and labour rights. The truth is that even without the 2020 pandemic, seafarers and their families would still be suffering. It has taken the UN Secretary General to declare a ‘humanitarian crisis at sea’ before we...

Prantik: The story behind Bangladesh’s first marine salvage company...

posted on: Sep 29, 2021

Prantik: The story behind Bangladesh’s first marine salvage company The Business Standard 29 September 2021 PANORAMA https://s7.addthis.com/dc/amp-addthis.html?_amp_=2109102127000TBS sat down with the passionate founder of the country’s first marine salvage company to hear his story and that of his company The submerged Southern Queen being refloated. Photo: Courtesy In 2001, a ship named Southern Queen caught fire at Chattogram port’s Jetty no 1. In a bid to save the vessel, and also to stop the fuel from burning, the port authority sank it deliberately by pumping water into it. By the following morning, nothing but the masts of the vessel were visible. The entire ship was underwater. Golam Sarwar, an ex-mariner, was painfully watching the debacle. Sarwar had left his marine life only a few years back to start a ship repair company called ‘Prantik’. As a sailor himself, he does not like to see ships sink. “A thought crossed...

Ctg shipbreaking yard worker dies after being hit by metal object...

posted on: Sep 29, 2021

Ctg shipbreaking yard worker dies after being hit by metal object The Daily Star A worker from a shipbreaking yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda died today after being hit by a flying metal object. Star Digital Report Wed Sep 29, 2021 The deceased was identified as Md Taslim (30) of the Bhatiyari union in the upazila. For all latest news, follow The Daily Star’s Google News channel. Abdullah Al Sakib Mubarrat, deputy inspector general (Chattogram directorate) of Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishment, told The Daily Star that a flying piece of a metal object hit Taslim while working at the Khawaja Ship Breaking Yard in Madam Bibir Hat area around 1 pm. Taslim was critically injured and was taken to Chattogram Medical College Hospital where he died later, the DIG said. The source of the flying metal object is yet to be known. A total of 12 workers...

THERE IS NO END TO LEARNING

posted on: Sep 28, 2021

THERE IS NO END TO LEARNING by F R Chowdhury 29 September 2021 The process of learning starts soon after we are born. We keep looking at everything surrounding us. First we recognize the faces of our parents and then we start recognizing the faces of others in close proximity. We keep listening to the surrounding and that is why we first learn to speak in our own mother tongue. Primary school education consists of most essential knowledge without which it is almost impossible to survive in today’s world. Then we go to secondary and high school. It is after H.Sc. that we decide our chosen field of further studies – medicine, engineering, accountancy, law or defence services etc. etc. One more has been added to this long list – and that is a career in the merchant marine. In the colonial days ocean going ships engaged in international...

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