Hitachi, Ltd. (hereinafter “Hitachi”), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (hereinafter “MOL”), and Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “JAL”) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to conduct Japan’s first(Note 1) pilot test on Kume Island, Okinawa Prefecture,...
Paris MoU and Tokyo MoU – CIC on cargo securing Through a press release issued on 03 August, the Paris and Tokyo MoUs published their questionnaire for this year’s CIC. The questionnaire contains ten questions to verify compliance with cargo securing requirements....
The drought in Europe is so severe that it is jeopardizing countries’ economic growth and forcing them to take extreme measures like blowing up riverbeds. Gripped by a summer of weather extremes, Romania recently shut down its sole working nuclear reactor cooled by...
Operational Overview Two parallel adaptations are now visibly reshaping the world’s crude flows. In the Black Sea, Ukraine’s drone campaign has widened beyond Russia’s own shadow fleet to Western-affiliated vessels legally operating under the G7 Oil Price Cap, with a...
Disruption in the Strait of Hormuz has exposed the vulnerability of global trade to a single maritime chokepoint, with early data showing sharp falls in exports of energy, fertilizers and industrial products. Exports of natural gas dropped by a staggering 95 per cent....