Merchant Shipping

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Lloyd’s Register apologises for its role in trafficking enslaved people from Africa

The Guardian 22 Jan 2025

Founded in 1760 as the Society for the Registry of Shipping by merchants and underwriters who met at Edward Lloyd’s ...

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SIDEUP expands its eCommerce logistics services to Oman

GCC Business News 22 Jan 2025

The company works on connecting the best shipping companies through its platform, offering smart solutions to facilitate shipping operations for merchants and companies.

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Container Lines Eye a Less Profitable Future With Calm in Red Sea

The Maritime Executive 22 Jan 2025

As carriers pulled in every available ship to cover the extra time and distance on Asia-Europe routes, a looming overcapacity problem evaporated, replaced by an unexpectedly tight market and a boom in freight rates.

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Five ways to cut emissions from shipping

The Conversation 22 Jan 2025

Without major progress on this front, up to 20,000 merchant ships could still depend on fossil fuels by 2050, according to Lloyd’s Register, the international shipping classification provider, which also provides energy transition advisory services.

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Taking Taiwan: Will Xi or won’t Xi?

Asiatimes 22 Jan 2025

He was counting the wrong ships ... And the world’s second-largest merchant marine has more than enough shipping to deliver up to six brigades and 60 days of supplies (particularly if they build an artificial harbor).5.

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Movies playing in Southeast Michigan, new releases Jan. 24

The Oakland Press 22 Jan 2025

Based on a chapter from Bram Stoker’s novel “Dracula”, about the merchant ship Demeter, which was chartered to carry 50 unmarked wooden crates from Carpathia to London.

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Galaxy Leader crew’s 14-month incarceration by the Houthis nears its end

Splash24/7 21 Jan 2025

Armed Houthis stormed the ship via ... The Houthis said on Sunday that so long as the ceasefire remains in place between Israel and Hamas, international merchant ships may now transit the Red Sea.

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Yemen's Houthi Rebels Signal Plan to Release Seized Car Carrier

The Maritime Executive 21 Jan 2025

After announcing a long-awaited halt to attacks on merchant shipping in the Red Sea, Yemen's Houthi militant group said Tuesday that it is preparing to release the car carrier Galaxy Leader, which it captured in late 2023.

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Trump vows to take Panama Canal, urges Putin to make Ukraine deal

Naharnet 21 Jan 2025

Donald Trump cast himself both as a peacemaker and fierce defender of U.S ... Capitol ... At his inauguration, Trump complained that US merchant and Navy ships were "being severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way, shape or form." ... Former U.S ... .

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Trump urges Putin to make Ukraine deal

Manila Standard 21 Jan 2025

“We didn’t give it to China, we gave it to Panama ... At his inauguration, Trump complained that US merchant and Navy ships were “being severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way, shape or form.” ... “He should make a deal ... .

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Houthis maintain Israeli ban while allowing all other ships to pass

Splash24/7 20 Jan 2025

The Houthis said yesterday so long as the ceasefire remains in place, international merchant ships may now transit the Red Sea ... to a major rerouting for most ships heading between Asia and Europe.

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Ocean rates could fall as Houthis say they will end Red Sea attacks

Freight Waves 20 Jan 2025

Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they will cease attacks on Israel and on merchant shipping in the Red Sea as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect Sunday.

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Missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea leaves Norfolk for its final deployment

Stars and Stripes 20 Jan 2025

The strike group saw the first air-to-air engagement against drones and the first combat employment of the precision-guided Joint Direct Attack Munition bombs as the carrier defended merchant ships ...

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Saving lives and limbs on the high seas: the extraordinary world of early modern ship’s surgeons

The Conversation 20 Jan 2025

By the 17th century, surgeons were a regular presence on English merchant and naval ships ... In his mid-17th medical journal written aboard the merchant vessels Peregrine and Phoenix, ship’s surgeon John Conny recorded his daily treatment of the crew.

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Yemeni Houthis to Limit Red Sea Attacks to Israeli-Linked Ships

Oil Price 20 Jan 2025

... Operations Coordination Center, through which the Houthis communicate with merchant shipping, has said.

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