COVID-19 Pandemic Creates New Cybercrime Risks
By The Maritime Executive 05-15-2020 04:27:42 The confusion attending the COVID-19 pandemic has created new opportunities for cybercrime, particularly cyberattacks targeting the human element. Fraudulent “phishing” attempts and similar deceptive tactics are an omnipresent cyber threat, and they can be even more potent in times of heightened uncertainty and stress. According to Lloyds Register’s cybersecurity outfit, Nettitude, […]
Panama Canal Ensures Secure Draft Levels for Transit
Panamax Locks (File Photo) By The Maritime Executive 05-15-2020 03:55:00 The Panama Canal Authority is ensuring shippers that it has been able to address the water issues in the canal and that it will be able to maintain operations with a secure draft for vessels despite experiencing the fifth driest year in the canal’s 70-year […]
Fifteen Seafarers Abandoned on Ship Without Rudder
Source: ITF By The Maritime Executive 05-13-2020 05:11:10 Fifteen seafarers have been abandoned on a Spanish-flagged ship that does not have a rudder. The crewmembers have been left without electricity, lights, wi-fi, refrigeration, GPS, security or safety lights on MV Celanova (IMO 9268394), reports the ITF. With batteries running low on their mobile phones, the […]
COVID-19 Impacting Weather Forecasts
Source: WMO By The Maritime Executive 05-11-2020 05:24:37 Normally, there are over 10,000 manned and automatic surface weather stations, 1,000 upper-air stations, 7,000 ships, 100 moored and 1,000 drifting buoys, hundreds of weather radars and 3,000 specially equipped commercial aircraft measuring key parameters of the atmosphere, land and ocean surface every day. However, the World […]
UK Government Urged to Exempt Seafarers from Quarantine
file photo courtesy of Diamantino Rosa By The Maritime Executive 05-10-2020 06:03:00 As the UK government announces plans for coming out of COVID-19 lockdwon, the UK Chamber of Shipping has urged it to exempt seafarers and maritime workers from any quarantine restrictions and to provide industry with urgent clarification on the rules around the 14-day […]
Dredger Encounters Likely WWII-Era Bomb on Eve of VE Day
UKD Marlin (ABP file image) By The Maritime Executive 05-08-2020 10:56:24 On the eve of the 75th anniversary of victory in Europe, the trailing suction hopper dredger UKD Marlin encountered what may have been a timely memento of the Second World War. The crew of the ABP-operated dredger believes that they witnessed an undiscovered war-era […]
Study: Australian Sheep Face Dangerous Heat Stress on Export Ships
image courtesy of Animals Australia By Clive Phillips 05-05-2020 07:13:57 It’s been almost three years since thousands of Australian sheep died during a voyage from Australia to the Middle East. My group’s new research provides insight into the heat stress faced by sheep exported in recent years and casts further doubt on the industry’s future. […]
Canadian Navy Helicopter Goes Missing Off Greece
HMCS Fredricton in a Royal Canadian Navy image released April 28 (RCN) By The Maritime Executive 04-29-2020 08:58:32 A helicopter from the Canadian frigate HMCS Fredericton went missing off the coast of Greece on Wednesday, the Canadian Armed Forces has confirmed. Search and rescue efforts are currently under way. The aircraft is a recently-acquired Sikorsky […]
Five Ways That COVID-19 Will Change Shipping
File image By Global Navigation Solutions 04-22-2020 12:59:00 At a time of year when much of the world should be getting some kind of break from work and reflecting on the coming of spring to the northern hemisphere at least, we are instead focussed on the greatest threat to human health in a century. The […]
Pandemic Could Almost Double the Number of Hungry People
Photo: WFP/ Marwa Awad, A family eating their meal in Burkina Faso By The Maritime Executive 04-21-2020 06:37:41 The COVID-19 pandemic could almost double the number of people suffering acute hunger, pushing it to 265 million by the end of 2020, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned. The number of people facing […]
