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Aframax tanker hijacked in Black sea by armed militants
STEPAN KOTCHERGA December 23, 2018 http://maritimebulletin.net/2018/12/23/aframax-tanker-hijacked-in-black-...

Limiting shipowner liability: how to have your cake and eat it
Emeka Akabogu 02 January 2019 https://www.internationallawoffice.com/Newsletters/Shipping-Transport/Ni...

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Hijacked Margate boat owner describes moment SBS commandos abseiled onto container ship to seize four migrants threatening crew with metal bars
Tariq Tahir, Tom Newton Dunn, Political Editor and Nick Parker 22nd December 2018

THE owner of a hijacked cargo ship has spoken how the “very fast and quick” Special Boat Service operation overpowered the stowaways.

Around 25 members from X Squadron of the Special Boat Service — sister regiment to the SAS — abseiled onto the ship yesterday evening.

Former China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation GM expelled from CPC, office
18/12/2018 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/former-china-shipbuilding-industry-...

Sun Bo, former general manager and deputy chief of the leading Party members’ group of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, has been expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and dismissed from office for multiple violations.

Steering seafarers’ pay to a new high-water mark
Mark Dickinson 20 December 2018 https://www.equaltimes.org/steering-seafarers-pay-to-a-new?lang=en#.XB19...

[Editor’s note: on behalf of the International Federation of Transport Workers, Mark Dickinson was lead negotiator for the seafarers at November’s minimum wage negotiations at the ILO].

MOL Cooperates in Demonstration Test of Class Survey Using Drones – Conducting Flight Test on Vessel in Service
21/12/2018 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/mol-cooperates-in-demonstration-tes...

South Korean government launches blockchain pilot for container shipping industry
Dec 18, 2018 https://tokenpost.com/South-Korean-government-launches-blockchain-pilot-...

South Korea’s Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning has launched a blockchain pilot in collaboration with the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries to explore the technology’s potential in the container shipping industry, CoinDesk reported.

Stowaways threaten cargo ship crew off British coast
22 Dec 2018 https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/stowaways-threaten-cargo-ship-...

LONDON (AFP) - Four stowaways armed with iron bars are threatening the crew of a cargo ship off the English coast and demanding to be taken ashore, a spokesman for the ship owner said.

Is 2018 the year that China’s BRI ran out of steam?
Andre Wheeler December 20th, 2018 https://splash247.com/is-2018-the-year-that-chinas-bri-ran-out-of-steam/

Recent press headlines scream that China’s Belt Road Initiative (BRI) is in decline, or as Bloomberg claims in a recent headline, Asia is falling “out of love with China’s Belt Road Initiative”.

Breaking News: Chinese COSCO executive leaps to his death from Taipei hotel
Keoni Everington 2018/12/21 https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3601564

Chinese executive from COSCO Shipping leaps to his death from Sunworld dynasty hotel in Taipei

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) -- A Chinese business executive from China's state-owned COSCO Shipping Lines Co., Ltd. fell to his death from the window of the 15th floor of a hotel in Taipei City in an apparent suicide.