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IMO urges collaboration for security in Gulf of Guinea The Punch Published 22 July 2021 The International Maritime Organization has urged member states, national authorities, the United Nations and other relevant organisations to strengthen law enforcement, arrest and prosecute pirates within their jurisdictions in accordance with international law and national legal frameworks. The Secretary-General, IMO, Kitack Lim, said this on Wednesday while speaking at the inaugural meeting of the Gulf of Guinea Maritime Coordination Forum/Shared Awareness and Deconfliction. The meeting ...

INSIGHT-SOS: Stranded and shattered seafarers threaten global supply lines Reuters 13 hrs ago * COVID curbs leave 100,000 commercial seafarers stranded at sea * Another 100,000 are stuck on shore, unable to earn a living * Only 2.5% have been vaccinated, shipping body estimates * Shipping industry turmoil could threaten global supply lines (Adds latest IMO figures on key workers classification) By Jonathan Saul and Roslan Khasawneh LONDON/SINGAPORE, July 20 (Reuters) - "I've seen grown men cry," says Captain Tejinder Singh, who hasn't set foot on dry land in more than seven months and isn't...

Another 100,000 are stuck on shore, unable to earn a living Only 2.5% have been vaccinated, shipping body estimates Shipping industry turmoil could threaten global supply lines LONDON/SINGAPORE, July 20 (Reuters) - "I've seen grown men cry," says Captain Tejinder Singh, who hasn't set foot on dry land in more than seven months and isn't sure when he'll go home. "We are forgotten and taken for granted," he says of the plight facing tens of thousands of seafarers like him, stranded at sea as the Delta variant of the coronavirus wreaks havoc on shore. "People don't know how their supermarkets ar...

Maritime Activity Reports, Inc. July 20, 2021 Credit: keki/AdobeStock "I've seen grown men cry," says Captain Tejinder Singh, who hasn't set foot on dry land in more than seven months and isn't sure when he'll go home. "We are forgotten and taken for granted," he says of the plight facing tens of thousands of seafarers like him, stranded at sea as the Delta variant of the coronavirus wreaks havoc on shore. "People don't know how their supermarkets are stocked up." Singh and most of his 20-strong crew have criss-crossed the globe on an exhausting odyssey: from India to the ...

Synopsis The SCA demanded more than $900 million for the salvage operation to free the Ever Given and other losses, later lowered to $550 million. The Ever Given's owners and insurers had disputed its detention and the compensation claim. AFP In the wake of the Ever Given's grounding, the SCA has accelerated a plan to widen and deepen the southernmost section of the canal, and to extend a second lane further north that was built in a 2015 expansion. ISMAILIA: The Ever Given, one of the world's largest container ships, resumed its journey and left the Suez Canal on Wednesday, 106 days after be...