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Panama Canal is clogged with ships, and the pandemic is making it worse
Oct 30, 2020, https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/panama-canal-is-clogged-with-s...

The Panama Canal is a crucial waterway for cargoes from the US, the fastest growing LNG supplier, to reach markets in Asia, the biggest consumer,delays coupled with soaring charter rates may force cargo owners to choose alternative routes

Solons puzzled why Filipino seafarers got infected with coronavirus on their way to job destinations
Ben Rosario October 29, 2020 https://mb.com.ph/2020/10/29/solons-puzzled-why-filipino-seafarers-got-i...

Covid: The 400,000 seafarers who can't go home
Tim McDonald 30 Oct 2020 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54549612

Seafarers face many frustrations, including prolonged contracts and cancelled flights home. This image is part of the "Still At Sea" photography competition, held by the ITF Seafarers' Trust.

Abandoned seafarers return home after three-month ordeal
Sam Chambers October 30, 2020 https://splash247.com/abandoned-seafarers-return-home-after-three-month-...

A group of 24 seafarers abandoned since July after their ships were detained in Ravenna Port in Italy for alleged non-payment of bunker supplies have finally been repatriated.

Smart Ports are the Gates to the Maritime Industry’s Digital Future
28/10/2020 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/smart-ports-are-the-gates-to-the-ma...

Demand for Seaborne Trade to Remain Low for the Next 12 Months
30/10/2020 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/demand-for-seaborne-trade-to-remain...

Sea labor market war: Filipino crews under attack?
Mikhail Voytenko October 27, 2020 https://www.maritimebulletin.net/2020/10/27/sea-labor-market-war-filipin...

IMEC, ITF open 300-crew Covid-19 facility in Manila
Lee Hong Liang | Oct 29, 2020 https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/casualty/imec-itf-open-300-crew-covid-...

The International Maritime Employer’s Council (IMEC) and the International Transport Worker’s Federation (ITF) have opened up sizable quarantine and testing facilities in Manila to accommodate up to 300 seafarers, amid the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.

Reshaping the industry during the global pandemic
Lindsay James 28 October 2020 https://www.cruiseandferry.net/articles/reshaping-the-industry-during-th...

Hans Eivind Siewers from DNV GL says that, beyond remote surveys, the pandemic has turbocharged the industry’s digitalisation journey by at least half a decade

Drug smuggling in commercial shipping
29 October 2020 https://splash247.com/drug-smuggling-in-commercial-shipping/

With the maritime industry continually improving anti-narcotics operations around the world, traffickers are finding increasingly novel and ingenious ways of smuggling drugs. Ian Short and Sam Jones from law firm Campbell Johnston Clark explore the indirect legal and commercial consequences to shipowners and charterers arising out of delays and losses caused.