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Nine shipping and port companies sign up to global digital collaboration
Katherine Si | Feb 28, 2020 https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/technology/nine-shipping-and-port-comp...

Nine shipping companies and terminal operators have signed an agreement indicating their intention to become shareholders of the proposed Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN).

Global shipping has been hit by the coronavirus. Now goods are getting stranded
Hanna Ziady February 20, 2020 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/05/business/shipping-coronavirus-impact/...

OFWs and the law of diminishing returns
Edwin de Leon - February 28, 2020 https://opinion.inquirer.net/127668/ofws-and-the-law-of-diminishing-returns

I have a recurring weariness that a point has been reached whereby the collective gains from all the OFW deployments have been adverse to the overall national interest.

Cargo vessel from virus-hit China under probe for 'misrepresentation'
Gaea Katreena Cabico - February 28, 2020 https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2020/02/28/1996796/cargo-vessel-virus...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Coast Guard said it is investigating a cargo vessel with travel history to China after its captain allegedly declared false information on the ship’s clearance details.

Virus-hit ship’s Filipino crew eyed for Bagong Bayani Awards
Lade Jean Kabagani February 27, 2020 http://www.canadianinquirer.net/2020/02/27/virus-hit-ships-filipino-crew...

MANILA – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is mulling the nomination of the Filipino crew of the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship for Bagong Bayani Awards (BBA), a national search for the country’s outstanding and exemplary overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).

Crew of ship from China barred from Bacolod port
Gilbert Bayoran February 27, 2020 - https://www.philstar.com/nation/2020/02/27/1996315/crew-ship-china-barre...

BACOLOD CITY, Philippines – The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has prevented 19 crewmembers, including 15 Chinese, of a merchant vessel from disembarking at the Bredco Port in this city.

Liner bankruptcy potential at highest levels recorded
Sam Chambers February 28th, 2020 https://splash247.com/liner-bankruptcy-potential-at-highest-levels-recor...

Container shipping has been warned in a new report it could face another Hanjin Shipping style collapse with one key liner bankruptcy indicator on red alert. The potential for liner bankruptcy potential is at its strongest in the 10 years that US consultants AlixPartners have been tracking this specific data set.

Toxic chemicals and seafarer’s heart diseases
ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO -| February 25,2020 https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/290253/toxic-chemicals-and-seafarers-...

Seafarer’s medical conditions, including cardiovascular diseases, can be attributed to their constant exposure to hazards such as toxic chemicals and the varying temperature, coupled by stressful tasks in his employment.

Virus Disrupts China’s Shipping, and World Ports Feel the Impact
Keith Bradsher and Niraj Chokshi Feb. 27, 2020

Even where factories are back in operation, getting freight to docks has been impeded by roadblocks and quarantines.

SHANGHAI — Some docks in China are clogged with arriving shipping containers or iron ore. Warehouses overflow with goods that cannot be exported for lack of trucks. And many factories are idle because components are not reaching them.

'Hugely disruptive': Coronavirus torpedoes global shipping
Reuters 27 Feb 2020 https://www.aljazeera.com/ajimpact/disruptive-coronavirus-torpedoes-glob...

Supply chain disruptions placing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of shipping business in jeopardy, says official.