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High Water Levels Help Shipping Industry After Rough Spring
Xavier Hershovitz, Matthew Myers July 8, 2019 https://www.9and10news.com/2019/07/08/high-water-levels-help-shipping-in...

High water levels have created problems for businesses, cities and homeowners, but more water actually helps the shipping industry.

Thousands of freighters pass through the Soo Locks every year, and record high water levels don’t change much there.

Locsin’s traitorous stupidity
John Nery - July 09, 2019

On July 3, Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. went on TV to paint the Gem-Ver 1 fishermen — those who had almost lost their lives when a Chinese vessel rammed their fishing boat — in the harshest possible light.

“I got the Coast Guard report immediately. Our investigation was finished. It was exhaustive. It’s not, I got to tell you, it doesn’t paint our fishermen in the brightest light,” Locsin told the ABS-CBN News Channel.

Marina to stakeholders: Ensure ‘zero accident’ this rainy season
Lorenz S. Marasigan -July 9, 2019 https://businessmirror.com.ph/2019/07/09/marina-to-stakeholders-ensure-z...

The Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) has instructed stakeholders to “conduct necessary actions to achieve zero maritime accident” this rainy season.

How robust seafaring niche market’ll grow Nigeria’s blue economy, GDP… As NIMASA seeks more maritime jobs for women
Steve Agbota 8th July 2019 https://www.sunnewsonline.com/how-robust-seafaring-niche-marketll-grow-n...

With a coastline of 852 kilometers bordering the Atlantic Ocean in the Gulf of Guinea and a maritime area of over 46,000 kilometers, Nigeria is no doubt a huge maritime destination.

Pinoy sailors remitted $2.14B from Jan-April 2019 – ACTS-OFW
July 7, 2019 https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/pinoyabroad/news/700162/pinoy-sailors-re...

Filipino sailors serving on international vessels have transferred a total of $2.14 billion in cash from January to April this year, 10.7 percent higher than the $1.93 billion they sent in during the same period last year.

Maritime tribunal orders Nigeria to release Swiss oil tanker
July 6, 2019 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/international-spat_maritime-tribunal-orders...

An international tribunal has ruled that Nigeria should release a Swiss-flag-carrying oil tanker and its crew, which has been blocked in the bay of Biafra for over a year.

Near-Term Outlook for Shipping Industry Not Enthralling
08/07/2019

How to Sink the Pirates Plaguing West Africa
08/07/2019

Remember those Somali pirates? Earlier this decade, they brazenly hijacked giant oil tankers, demanded ransoms in the millions of dollars, and gave Tom Hanks yet another chance to play the everyman overcoming a life-defining crisis. Now, thanks to a multinational naval crackdown and tighter security measures by shippers, they’ve been forced back to dry land.

Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd hit clients with highest war risk surcharges to date
Sam Chambers July 5th, 2019 https://splash247.com/maersk-and-hapag-lloyd-hit-clients-with-highest-wa...

Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd are the latest liners to bring in war risk surcharges for cargoes heading in and out of the Arabian Gulf on the back of six tanker attacks in the region over the past two months.

O captain, my captain: sailors who risk jail to save migrants' lives
Lorenzo Tondo 5 Jul 2019 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/05/o-captain-my-captain-sailo...