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Explosion onboard a Chemical Tanker in Yangtze River
[image for representation only] An explosion took place on a Chemical Tanker, Qiu Feng 6, a Chinese-flagged vessel, on May 20 and injured two crew members of the ship. A video of the incident has surfaced online, indicating that the crew was possibly washing the tanks when the said explosion took place. The fire was successfullyContinueContinue reading “Explosion onboard a Chemical Tanker in Yangtze River”
How a Shipwrecked Crew Survived 10 Days Lost at Sea
By Eric Barton, OutsideOnline On November 25, 2019, Chris Carney and his two-man crew, Pete Brown and Jun “Sumi” Sumiyama, set off from Japan on their way to Hawaii in a 42-foot sailboat, the Coco-Haz III. They had four weeks to cross the world’s largest ocean. The boat’s owner, a retired Japanese dentist, needed the trip done in a hurry—he’dContinueContinue reading “How a Shipwrecked Crew Survived 10 Days Lost at Sea”
How Africa risks reeling from a health crisis to a food crisis
By Libby George LAGOS (Reuters) – In Nigeria’s Benue state, the food basket of the country, Mercy Yialase sits in front of her idle rice mill. Demand is high across the nation, but she already has mounds of paddy rice that are going nowhere amid the COVID-19 lockdown. “I can’t mill because the marketers areContinueContinue reading “How Africa risks reeling from a health crisis to a food crisis”
Crude tanker storage, orderbook dynamics could balance demand lull
Source: S&P global Teekay Tankers is looking toward potentially bullish tanker supply factors, namely discharge delays, floating storage and the orderbook environment to combat depressed crude cargo demand in the near and medium term, CEO Kevin Mackay said Thursday. “In the near term, we anticipate that rates will remain volatile due to a continued mismatchContinueContinue reading “Crude tanker storage, orderbook dynamics could balance demand lull”