1. OneCare Group joins RightShip’s Zero harm innovation partners programme to prioritise seafarers’ Wellbeing at Sea. OneCare Group joins RightShip’s Zero Harm Innovation Partner Programme, an initiative aiming to encourage the development of new solutions towards a zero-harm maritime industry.
https://cyprusshippingnews.com/2024/12/10/onecare-group-joins-rightships-zero-harm-innovation-partners-programme-to-prioritise-seafarers-wellbeing-at-sea/
https://cyprusshippingnews.com/2024/12/10/onecare-group-joins-rightships-zero-harm-innovation-partners-programme-to-prioritise-seafarers-wellbeing-at-sea/
2. Container Terminal sets record for efficiency. The automated container terminal at Qingdao Port, a subsidiary of Shandong Port Group, achieved an average productivity of 60.6 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) per hour during an unloading task on Monday. This marks the 11th time that the terminal has set a world record for automated terminal efficiency.
https://cyprusshippingnews.com/2024/12/10/container-terminal-sets-record-for-efficiency/
https://cyprusshippingnews.com/2024/12/10/container-terminal-sets-record-for-efficiency/
3. Port automation a key sticking point in union, USEC ports negotiations ahead of 15 Jan deadline. The 15 January deadline for finalizing a new labor agreement between unionized dock workers at US Gulf and East Coast ports and the negotiating entity for the ports is nearing with no clear progress on a key remaining issue – automation.
https://cyprusshippingnews.com/2024/12/10/port-automation-a-key-sticking-point-in-union-usec-ports-negotiations-ahead-of-15-jan-deadline/
https://cyprusshippingnews.com/2024/12/10/port-automation-a-key-sticking-point-in-union-usec-ports-negotiations-ahead-of-15-jan-deadline/
4. The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore and MISC forge partnership to drive innovation and Advance Digital Maritime Solutions. The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and MISC have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen collaboration in innovation, research and development (R&D) and test-bedding activities, to advance digital transformation in the maritime industry.
https://cyprusshippingnews.com/2024/12/10/the-maritime-and-port-authority-of-singapore-and-misc-forge-partnership-to-drive-innovation-and-advance-digital-maritime-solutions/
https://cyprusshippingnews.com/2024/12/10/the-maritime-and-port-authority-of-singapore-and-misc-forge-partnership-to-drive-innovation-and-advance-digital-maritime-solutions/
5. Merchant shipping gives Syria a wide berth in the wake of Assad’s ousting. Syria has become a no-go zone for international merchant shipping following the ousting of the Assad family from power.
Ships are giving the Middle Eastern nation a wide berth in the wake of the uprising that saw Bashar al-Assad fly to Russia over the weekend, ending more than 50 years of rule from his family.
https://splash247.com/merchant-shipping-gives-syria-a-wide-berth-in-the-wake-of-assads-ousting/
https://splash247.com/merchant-shipping-gives-syria-a-wide-berth-in-the-wake-of-assads-ousting/
6. How the Houthis fired liner earnings to extraordinary highs. No shipping sector has profited more this year from the ongoing Red Sea crisis than the container industry. The Houthis in Yemen have delivered the most profitable year in the history of liner shipping aside from the covid era earlier this decade.
https://splash247.com/how-the-houthis-fired-liner-earnings-to-extraordinary-highs/
https://splash247.com/how-the-houthis-fired-liner-earnings-to-extraordinary-highs/
7. Premier Alliance launch delayed as US demands more details. The Premier Alliance, a new Asian liner grouping, had planned to start selling bookings later this week, something that will now likely have to be put on hold following intervention from the US.
The Premier Alliance is made up of members of the soon-to-disappear THE Alliance, minus Hapag-Lloyd, who is leaving it to join forces with Maersk in what will be called the Gemini Cooperation.
https://splash247.com/premier-alliance-launch-delayed-as-us-demands-more-details/
https://splash247.com/premier-alliance-launch-delayed-as-us-demands-more-details/
8. Arctic Shipping Sets New Records With Hundred Transit Voyages Carrying 3m Tonnes of Cargo in 2024. Even in the face of widening Western sanctions Russia managed to increase Arctic transit cargo by almost 50 percent over 2023. Its main Arctic shipping lane, the Northern Sea Route, recorded 97 transits carrying close to 3m tons of cargo; both figures surpassing previous highs. Total cargo volume along the route, including transits and traffic originating in Russia, stands around 40m tonnes in 2024.
https://gcaptain.com/arctic-shipping-sets-new-records-with-hundred-transit-voyages-carrying-3m-tonnes-of-cargo-in-2024/
https://gcaptain.com/arctic-shipping-sets-new-records-with-hundred-transit-voyages-carrying-3m-tonnes-of-cargo-in-2024/
9. Sanctioned Russia Oil Tanker Turns Back From Detour Around UK. A tanker hauling Russian crude from the Baltic Sea to India that was observed heading toward the Shetland Islands — a route that would have taken it on a detour around the northern tip of the UK — made a sudden turn and instead took a more-typical journey through the English Channel.
https://gcaptain.com/sanctioned-russia-oil-tanker-turns-back-from-detour-around-uk/
https://gcaptain.com/sanctioned-russia-oil-tanker-turns-back-from-detour-around-uk/
10. Taiwan Raises Alert as China Deploys 90 Ships in Likely Drills. Taiwan raised its alert level on Monday saying China has set up seven zones of reserved airspace and deployed naval fleets and coast guard boats in what a security source described as the first military drills across a broad swathe of the region’s waters.
https://gcaptain.com/taiwan-raises-alert-as-china-deploys-90-ships-in-likely-drills/
https://gcaptain.com/taiwan-raises-alert-as-china-deploys-90-ships-in-likely-drills/