Crew Abandoned for 11 Months Calls for Action Staging a Hunger Strike
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Crew abandoned aboard a bulk carrier in Kuwait - ITF photo
The crew of a bulk carrier abandoned by its owner and flag state is staging a hunger strike to call attention to their plight according to the International Transport Workers’ Federation. Desperate to get their back wages and return home the crew turned to this drastic action.
The crew, which consists of Indian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, and Bangladeshi seafarers, has been stuck on the ship, the Ula, abandoned for the past 11 months at the port of Shuaiba, Kuwait. According to the ITF, the hunger strike began on January 7 in their effort to get off the ship and recover more than $400,000 in wages owed to them.
México.-Los neoliberales arruinaron a la marina mercante, afirma AMLO
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Periódico La Jornada
sábado 16 de enero de 2021 , p. 7
Durante el periodo neoliberal, la marina mercante fue desmantelada, “la acabaron, la arruinaron”, expuso el presidente de la República, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. En visita de inspección a las instalaciones del puerto de Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, ponderó la intervención de la Secretaría de Marina en el manejo de los puertos del país:
“En tiempo del desarrollo estabilizador –resultante de la posguerra– se logró tener una marina propia, desarrollada. Esto se terminó, ya no hay marina mercante propia, y la Secretaría de Marina, con una visión generosa, está llamando a que participen los marinos mercantes. Es relevante que los puertos estén manejados por la Secretaría de Marina. Qué vamos a lograr con esto: primero
Gran acogida en el primer ferry para camiones que parte del Puerto de Cartagena rumbo a Toulon
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GRUPO CALICHE, HERMANOS INGLÉS O GRUPO PRIMAFRIO HAN TRANSPORTADO VEHÍCULOS EN ESTA PRIMERA EXPERIENCIA PILOTO
Diego Sánchez
CARTAGENA. La noche de este pasado sábado ha comenzado a operar por primera vez en el Puerto de Cartagena una nueva línea marítima que conecta la Región de Murcia con el sur de Francia a través de un servicio de tráfico ro-ro, en una ruta directa semanal.
El ferry, con capacidad para una veintena de camiones, 17 de ellos con enganche eléctrico, dispone de rampa de entrada y de salida, por lo que los vehículos
Decarbonization Project Will Conduct Tests on Bulker and Cruise Ship
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BAR Technologies and Cargill previously proposed the WindWing sail (BAR Technologies)
A new research effort, which is focusing on combining emerging technologies to promote low-carbon shipping, will test its technologies on in-service vessels. The project, which is named CHEK (deCarbonizing sHipping by Enabling Key technology symbiosis on real vessel concept designs), is receiving funding from the EU Horizon 2020 program to accelerate innovation with tests of a sail on a dry bulk carrier as well as a hydrogen-powered ship engine on a cruise ship.
“No current or emerging ‘silver bullet’ technology alone will be able to reduce CO2 emissions from maritime transport in accordance with the IMO's ambitious 2050 goals,” says CHEK project coordinator, Doctor Suvi Karirinne,
Brexit Trade Problems: What’s Gone Wrong and Can it be Fixed?
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File image courtesy Port of Dover
Queues of lorries at borders and empty supermarket shelves confirm what most already knew: the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) has increased trade barriers between the EU and the UK.
So what problems are arising, and can anything be done to improve them?
1. Rules of origin
Upon announcing the deal on Christmas Eve, Boris Johnson claimed it would “enable UK goods to be sold without tariffs, without quotas in the EU market”. This has since been proven to be misleading.
Goods traded between the EU and UK avoid tariffs and quotas only where they originate from whichever side exported them. This is governed by the rules of origin, which aim to ensure that goods imported from, say, India into the