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Independent Livestock Observer Documents Heat Stress on Bahijah

By The Maritime Executive

December 1, 2018

The Australian Government has released the first and only summary to date out of more than 18 independent observer reports from live export voyages. The three-page document provides a snapshot of t...

Cyber Risk Mitigation: “How” not “What”

By Oliver Schwarz

December 1, 2018

With the release of the seventh edition of the SIRE Vessel Inspection Questionnaire (VIQ7) in September 2018, tanker owners and managers are scrambling to review their cyber security best practice and...

Flashback: Does Anyone Recognize This Device?

By Mike Waters

December 1, 2018

Does anyone remember this device? It was a device invented and used in the early 1960's to develop expanded ship plates. Prior to this they were only developed by building full size mock-ups of the...

New CMI President Wants Closer Ties with IMO

By Wendy Laursen

December 1, 2018

Christopher O. Davis of Baker Donelson was elected president of the Comité Maritime International (CMI) last month, and MarEx spoke to him about his ambitions. The CMI, formally established in 1897...

Seafarer Mental Health: Taking a Holistic Approach

By Yves Vandenborn

December 1, 2018

Captain Yves Vandenborn, director of loss prevention at The Standard Club, says improving the mental health of seafarers is critical but cannot be done in isolation. It needs to be part of a holistic...

Time to Rethink Safety in Enclosed Spaces

By Wendy Laursen

December 1, 2018

Crew members are often blamed for deaths in enclosed spaces. Human error; so it would seem. But, there are those in the industry who believe that others should be held accountable, that new action sho...

Canada to Trial Maritime Awareness System

By The Maritime Executive

December 1, 2018

The Government of Canada has provided over $2.5 million to four British Columbia coastal communities to increase availability of maritime data as part of the nation's Oceans Protection Plan. The fu...

China Trials LNG Tank Shipment

By The Maritime Executive

December 1, 2018

A feeder container ship loaded with 130 LNG tank containers sailed northward from the Port of Yangpu of Hainan Province to the Port of Jinzhou in November. The shipment of 25,000 cubic meter conta...

Former President George H. W. Bush Passes at 94

By The Maritime Executive

December 1, 2018

Former U.S. President, naval aviator and Texas oil pioneer George Herbert Walker Bush died at age 94 on November 30. He was the 41st president of the U.S. (1989-93) and father of the 43rd president...

Singapore Announces Ban on Open-Loop Scrubber Discharge

By The Maritime Executive

November 30, 2018

On Friday, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) announced that it will not allow ships with open-loop scrubbers to discharge scrubber wash water in port after January 1, 2020. In order t...

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