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MAERSK container ship breakdown in Gibraltar Strait, towage
NIKOLAY TORKIN January 30, 2020 http://www.maritimebulletin.net/2020/01/30/maersk-container-ship-breakdo...

How has coronavirus affected ports and shipping?
Max Schwerdtfeger • 29 January 2020 https://www.porttechnology.org/news/how-has-coronavirus-affected-ports-a...

The first month of 2020 has seen numerous threats to free trade and the flow of cargo around the world, including escalating tensions between the US and Iran and Brexit.

Mixed reactions trail seafarers’ wage deduction
BAYO AKOMOLAFE 28 Jan 2020 https://www.newtelegraphng.com/mixed-reactions-trail-seafarers-wage-dedu...

The Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) 2006, which permits deductions from seafarers’ wages to their union bodies, has stressed the need by each maritime administration to regulate private crew agencies that indulge in illegal deduction of wages.

Six Seafarers Fall Ill as Coronavirus Outbreak Continues
01-28-2020 https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/six-seafarers-fall-ill-as-cor...

Six seafarers aboard a French-operated container ship have fallen ill during a voyage from China to Egypt, raising concerns that they could be the first reported mariners to have contracted the new coronavirus strain originating in Wuhan.

Valuing the sacrifices of a modern-day seafarer
Yashika F. Torib January 29, 2020 https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/01/29/business/maritime-business/valuin...

Seafarers wrestle over a wide array of stress-inducing pressures at sea, things that include but are not limited, to the lack of shore leave, increased paperwork, working with fewer people, isolation and homesickness.

Greek seafarers face ‘extinction’ unless owners and unions work together
David Glass | Jan 27, 2020 https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/ship-operations/greek-seafarers-face-e...

Greek shipowners and seafarer unions need to work together other wise the Greek seafarer will become extinct warns Union of Greek Shipowners (UGS), president Theodore Veniamis.

No injuries as fishing vessel, cargo ship collide off Martha’s Vineyard
Curt Brown 28 Jan 20202 https://www.southcoasttoday.com/news/20200128/no-injuries-as-fishing-ves...

A 70-foot fishing vessel out of Tiverton and a 605-foot tanker collided Monday about 25 nautical miles south of Martha’s Vineyard, the Coast Guard said.

Ocean shipping in coronavirus crosshairs
29/01/2020 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/ocean-shipping-in-coronavirus-cross...

The only risk to improved tanker fleet utilization in 2020-21 is “a black-swan economic event that punishes global oil demand,” wrote Evercore ISI analyst Jon Chappell in his latest shipping forecast.

Enter the black swan.

Oil companies must explain how their new “Super Pollutant” shipping fuels ever came to market: IMO must act to stop new “Super Pollutant” shipping fuels in Arctic and globally
28/01/2020 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/oil-companies-must-explain-how-thei...

IMO under pressure to regulate new ship fuels over Arctic warming
Chloé Farand 27/01/2020

New marine fuels introduced at the start of January could lead to an increase of the shipping sector’s climate impacts

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) is under pressure to regulate new shipping fuels introduced this month which may be accelerating warming in the Arctic.

From 1 January this year, stricter sulphur levels for ships have come into force to reduce air pollution and human health impacts such as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.