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Remains of three missing crew found onboard Maersk Honam
Sam Chambers March 13th, 2018 http://splash247.com/remains-three-missing-crew-found-onboard-maersk-honam/

Salvors have found the human remains of three of the four missing crewmembers onboard the fire stricken 15,000 teu Maersk Honam boxship. Maersk said it now assumed that the missing fourth seafarer was also dead taking the death toll to five from the huge fire that ripped through the bow of the one-year-old ship last week.

Shape up or ship out? What lies ahead for shipping crews in the wake of technological change
Clyde & Co LLP March 12 2018 https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=b3255e93-86b0-4c0b-8375-2...

Europe sails towards electrified shipping fleets
12/03/2018 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/europe-sails-towards-electrified-sh...

Hong Kong shipping group OOIL wary of a Trump trade war
MAYUKO TANI March 12, 2018 https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Hong-Kong-shipping-group-OOIL...

Beijing regulators yet to sign off on Cosco's buyout deal

Singapore will remain world's top bunkering hub post 2020: Maersk executive
Rajesh Nair 12 Mar 2018 https://www.platts.com/latest-news/shipping/singapore/singapore-will-rem...

Singapore will continue to be the world's largest ship refueling destination going into 2020 and beyond, Maersk regional trading head Peter Beekhuis said Friday at the S&P Global Platts Asian Refining Summit in Singapore.

Libyan army seizes foreign ship entering eastern military zone
Xinhua 2018-03-12 http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-03/12/c_137032301.htm

TRIPOLI, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Libya's eastern-based army, led by General Khalifa Haftar, seized a foreign ship that entered a banned military zone in eastern Libya, a spokesman said on Sunday.

Maersk Shanghai: Container Containing Acid Yet to be Found
2018-03-10 https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/maersk-shanghai-container-con...

The U.S. Coast Guard, NOAA and Environmental Protection Agency are continuing to monitor 76 shipping containers lost from a container ship off North Carolina, but are yet to locate one containing 5,900 pounds of sulfuric acid.

Fire on container ship under control, no word on missing crew
Mar 09, 2018 https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/transportation/shipping-/-...

Rescuing the Maritime Sector
March 9, 2018 https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/03/09/rescuing-the-maritime-s...

Eromosele Abiodun writes that the Nigerian Maritime Industry Forecast 2018–2019, released by NIMASA, shows that the agency‘s drive to improve operating conditions and position the country‘s maritime sector for greater efficiency is on course

Frank Coles savages shipping institutions holding back tech change
March 8th, 2018 http://splash247.com/frank-coles-savages-shipping-institutions-holding-b...

Mark T. Vassel reports this week from Transas’s annual global conference in Vancouver.

The shipping industry must undergo a wholesale cultural shift to manage the disruption that is coming or the promise of all the emerging technology that has been capturing recent headlines will never be realised.