27 Dec 2020
Two men appeared in Southampton Crown Court on Saturday, charged with alleged crimes relating to a major security alert in the English Channel that led to British special forces raiding an oil tanker.
Matthew John Okorie, 25 and Sunday Sylvester, 22 were charged with endangering a ship under the UK’s Merchant Shipping Act 1995 and will appear in court again in January for trial. They are two of seven men who were arrested onboard the Nave Andromeda oil tanker in October after the crew reported the presence of stowaways on the ship.
All of those arrested are reported to be of Nigerian origin, and the operators of the Greek ‘owned’, Liberian-flagged ship said they believed the men boarded the ship while it was moored off Lagos.
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Asia holds sway over container ports
Standardised containers were first used to transport cargo by sea on April 26, 1956. During the last over six decades this containerised mode of transport has made a huge impact on global shipping. Lingering trade tensions and high policy uncertainty undermined growth in global economic output and merchandise trade in 2019. Trade volumes expanded by 0.5 per cent in 2019, down from 2.8 per cent in 2018, to 11.8 billion tonnes. In tandem, global container port traffic growth slowed to 2 per cent from 5.1 per cent in 2018.
In 2019, about 811.2 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent unit) were handled in container ports worldwide, reflecting an additional 16 million TEUs over 2018 (UNCTAD Review of Maritime Transport 2020). Though the container trade volume represents about 18 per cent of the global maritime trade, this fastest growing market segment accounts for almost two-thirds of the global maritime trade by value.
Photo: Raj Rana - Unsplash Shipping lines have complained that a new law proposed by India’s Shipping Ministry that pushes for greater transparency on ocean pricing amounts to “government interference”.
The new legislation – Merchant Shipping Bill (MSB) 2020 – is meant to replace existing policies that were enacted several decades ago under the Merchant Shipping Act (MSA) 1958. The MSA is set to be repealed.
The policymakers have set the stage for a regulatory framework to create greater transparency into ocean carrier pricing for export-import and domestic cargo transportation – an issue that has historically been complex and acrimonious.
“Every service provider or agent, in respect of any Indian ship or other ship operating in coastal waters, in relation to import, export or domestic transportation, shall specify the all-inclusive freight in the bill of lading or any other transport document, in such mode and manner as may be no
Asia holds sway over container ports
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Though port development in India hasn’t been impressive, the govt is now taking proactive steps to modernise our ports
Standardised containers were first used to transport cargo by sea on April 26, 1956. During the last over six decades this containerised mode of transport has made a huge impact on global shipping. Lingering trade tensions and high policy uncertainty undermined growth in global economic output and merchandise trade in 2019. Trade volumes expanded by 0.5 per cent in 2019, down from 2.8 per cent in 2018, to 11.8 billion tonnes. In tandem, global container port traffic growth slowed to 2 per cent from 5.1 per cent in 2018.
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