A humanitarian crisis is taking place at sea and urgent action is needed to protect seafarers’ health and ensure the safety of shipping, the IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has warned. In a strong statement issued ahead of the General Assembly of the United Nations,...

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The Republic of Panama, a country with the largest registered vessels fleet, attracts shipowners with it lucrative privileges such as an open registry, tax exemptions, no minimum tonnage requirements, and its strategic position connecting one of the most important...

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India’s finished steel exports fell for the second consecutive month in August, falling 24.5% to 1.04 million mt compared with July amid higher local demand, provisional data from the Joint Plant Committee showed. Finished steel consumption stood at 7.50 million mt in...

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Relations between India and Bangladesh reached another milestone recently, following the operationalization of the Daukandi (Bangladesh)-Sonamura (Tripura) Inland Waterway Protocol route. This would be the first-ever export consignment from Bangladesh to Tripura...

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In August 1990, Maersk made its humble beginnings in India with a single feeder service between Mumbai Port and Dubai Port. Being served by Maersk Clementine with a capacity of 436 twenty-feet equivalent units of containers (TEU), this was the first step into the...

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