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Shipping Professionals set-up Network in Mumbai

Mixing Business with pleasure can yield quick results

AWO’s Allegretti: The Jones Act is Settled Law

AWO’s Allegretti: The Jones Act is Settled Law
Maybe; maybe not. Allegretti also correctly points out that only continued, vigorous advocacy on behalf of protecting cabotage will prevent detractors from chipping away at what’s left of it.

Maersk Line sails into negative territory

Don’t expect anything good this year is the bleak assessment from the world’s largest box carrier.

Canadian icebreaker Labrador

Canadian icebreaker Labrador
The first major Canadian icebreaker.

Web-based Mentoring in the Maritime Industry - An Introduction

Web-based Mentoring in the Maritime Industry - An Introduction
Mentoring in the maritime industry is a long-held and incredibly valuable tradition. However, due to the unique nature of the maritime working environment, the opportunities to form and sustain mentoring relationships are actually very limited. Fortunately, these limitations can be overcome through web-based mentoring. This article discusses the potential for web-based mentoring in the maritime industry: what it is, whether it can work, and what its benefits are.

Light dues collection likely at all ports

Trade upset over move to levy duty for ‘on deck cargo’

Sperm whale

Sperm whale
A magnificent animal, once hunted almost to extinction.

Soak it in super glue first - that’s the only way the PSS will stick on Asia-Europe

Just days after shippers on the transpacific were warned of an impressively high peak levy, peak season surcharge fever has arrived on Asia-Europe.

G E Shipping delivers VLCC to buyers

All three VLCCs that were taken delivery of by Great Eastern Shipping this year have been handed over to the buyers

MarPro, Risk, BPA & You

MarPro, Risk, BPA & You
The initial BPA Worldwide Brand Report for Maritime Professional magazine and online community has been accomplished. You should care. Here’s why:

Peak season prediction gets the surcharge machine moving

Never slow to seize a revenue-gathering opportunity, transpacific carriers expecting cargo to build through the summer were swift to slap down the peak levy.

Falkland Islands

Falkland Islands
A long-disputed archipelago in the South Atlantic

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ECDIS 'Top Guns' Announced

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UK based ECDIS training & consultancy company, ECDIS Ltd, celebrate two years of awarding a HDMM sponsored monthly prize to students UK based

Wrecked Russian Cruiser 'Drydocked'

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Russian cruiser sealed off from the sea to allow final demolition An excavation pier around the Russian warship Murmansk that took three years to build has now been sealed,

China's GPS 'Beidou' to be Enhanced

China will launch three more satellites for its Beidou GPS system The Third China Satellite Navigation Conference in progress in Guangzhou, South China’s Guangdong Province,

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The Gamma Propulsion System

At first blush, The Gamma Propulsion System (TGPS) appears it will revolutionize the shipping industry. Considering Gamma's claimed propulsion efficiency and a significant reduction in power requirements to boot, shippers should be scrambling to Gamma’s door step. Gamma asserts it threw out the t...
Posted on 5/15/2012 2:10:41 PM

Job Openings

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