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Could Cyber Attacks Spell Doom for the Maritime Industry?
Eric Manning June 12, 2021

Do you know how truly massive the global maritime industry is? Billions of tons of vital goods like food, medicine, and oil are shipped around the world every year, and any interference with these ships can cause massive economic impacts. We saw these economic impacts earlier this year when a shipping vessel lodged itself in the Suez Canal, blocking the passage of other vessels. This blockage cost the world nearly $10 billion in trade each day it was stuck.

Environmental Regulations Increasing in Maritime Transport Industry
22/06/2021 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/environmental-regulations-increasin...

Maersk Line, the largest container shipping company in the world, has recently proposed carbon tax imposition on ship fuels in relation to global carbon reduction efforts.

Seafarers Need To Strike, Says Frank Coles
John Konrad June 21, 2021 https://gcaptain.com/seafarers-need-to-strike-and-send-a-statement-of-di...

Philippines has 4 new cases of COVID-19 Delta variant, 35 carriers of other strains
Katrina Domingo, Jun 21 2021 https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/06/21/21/philippines-has-4-new-cases-of-co...

MANILA - Four Filipinos have tested positive for the COVID-19 Delta variant, bringing the total number of Filipinos infected with the variant to 17, the government said Monday.

Polynesian seafarers sighted Antarctica a thousand years before Europeans: Study
Daniel Martins Sat., June 19, 2021, https://ca.news.yahoo.com/polynesian-seafarers-sighted-antarctica-thousa...

Antarctica has long featured in Western history as the site of the last golden age of exploration, but new research suggests Polynesian seafarers may have beaten Europeans to the punch by more than a thousand years.

Marubeni, NYK, and TDG agree on joint promotion of electronic money platform business for Seafarers
Baibhav Mishra - June 21, 2021 https://seanews.co.uk/technology/marubeni-nyk-and-tdg-agree-on-joint-pro...

Marubeni Corporation (Marubeni), NYK Line, and Transnational Diversified Group (TDG)* have agreed on Marubeni’s acquisition of a stake in MarCoPay Inc., an electronic money platform business founded by NYK Line and TDG.

Pinoy seafarer in foreign ship bound for Iligan tests positive for COVID-19
RIchel V. Umel - June 20, 2021 https://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2021/06/pinoy-seafarer-in-foreign-...

ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 20 June) – An Iligan-bound ship from Indonesia was not allowed to dock at the port here on June 16 after a Filipino seafarer on board manifested symptoms of COVID-19 and later tested positive.

London-Greek owners slam failure to recognise seafarers’ key role
David Glass | Jun 21, 2021 https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/ship-operations/london-greek-owners-sl...

London-based Greek shipowners have slammed governments and regulators for failing to recognise the key role seafarers and shipping staff play in ensuring global trade continues in the tumultuous circumstances now being experienced.

This cargo ship's captain died aboard. The crew was stuck at sea for weeks, with a potential Covid outbreak on its hands
Teele Rebane and Livia Borghese, June 20, 2021 https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/19/europe/italy-captain-capurro-intl-hnk...

Angelo Capurro in La Spezia, Italy, in 2017.

New Compensation Offer Made Over Suez Canal Blockage
Reuters June 20, 2021 https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/new-compensation-offer-made-over-sue...

ISMAILIA, EGYPT - The owners of a container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March have made a new offer in a compensation dispute with the canal authority, and a court ruling on the case was postponed for two weeks on Sunday to allow more time for negotiations.