Container lines are diverting reefer shipments and some vessel calls at Shanghai as congestion worsens at the port due to the prolonged Covid lockdown in the city. As the Shanghai lockdown moves into its third week a severe shortage of trucking capacity, as well as...

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Call for urgent action to protect 1,000 crew trapped in Ukraine ports from the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO). Six weeks into the war in Ukraine and over 100 vessels with 1,000 seafarers onboard are still...

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The Royal Navy’s experimental 700X Naval Air Squadron has completed testing of two heavy-lift cargo drones at RNAS Culdrose, and it is closing in on a shore-to-ship solution that could be deployed at scale.  It is the second time the Malloy Aeronautics...

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In his statement to the Solomon Islands parliament on the draft security agreement between his country and Beijing, Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare stridently but disingenuously denied ‘pitching into any geopolitical power struggle’. Despite the shared...

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A small container feeder has lost power in rough conditions just off the coast of Marin County, California, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.  On the morning of April 8, the feeder Wan Hai 176 left Oakland and got underway on a return voyage to Asia. At about...

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