The World Through a Porthole. A sojourn of Sheila Malhotra’s engrossing artwork at London’s Nehru Centre By James Brewer Marine painters often say that portholes are what truly describe a…
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US Presidential Debate: Trump’s import tariffs are ‘history repeating’ and will cause a spike in ocean container shipping markets – with consumers picking up the cost.
OSLO, Norway – Donald Trump’s proposed import tariffs would see the cost of shipping goods by ocean increase in a repeat of the market spike seen during his first term…
MCA’s seafarer safety lead announced as keynote speaker for charity Port Welfare Conference The Head of Seafarer Safety and Health at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has been announced as the…
30 international UCL students of Dr. Evangelos Markopoulos, studying International Business Development and Strategy attended, as observers of the opening of the 10th session of the sub committee Implementation of IMO Instruments (III)…
9th July 2024 As NATO marks its 75th anniversary, we, as unions representing merchant seafarers across several NATO member states, urge the alliance and its members to recognise the vital…
Stena RoRo has ordered another two E-Flexer RoPax vessels from the Chinese shipyard CMI Jinling (Weihai). The vessels will be delivered in 2027 to the Greek shipping company Attica Group…
Supreme President Savas C. Tsivicos has issued the following statement: The Order of AHEPA strongly condemns the conversion of The Chora Museum, a former historic Greek Orthodox church and UNESCO…
Kallichoron Art Boutique Hotel proudly announces the 10th anniversary celebration event of continued business. Reflecting on 10 years of elevated hospitality, Maria Mavroudi, co-Founder of Kallichoron, said “I take great…
World Sailing marks International Women’s Day with a series of videos celebrating Olympic sailing heroesÂ
To mark this year’s International Women’s Day, on 8 March, World Sailing is releasing a series of videos celebrating female Olympic sailing heroes. The first video will be released on…
A book detailing the history of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has been published to mark 75 years since the adoption of the IMO Convention, creating for the first time…
Assembly of International Maritime Organization has elected Members of its Council for 2024-2025 biennium. The Council is the executive organ of IMO and is responsible, under the Assembly, for supervising…
Strong links between diversity and good leadership in shipping revealed in DSG 2023 Annual Review
•   Survey of 2500+ professionals shows progress on gender, but glass ceiling remains•   Employees keen to see meaningful action now on diversity and inclusion 28 November 2023 – The findings are…
‘The Historical Greek Community of London and its “Chiot” Necropolis of W. Norwood’ John Faraclas writes: A new book by Costas Stef. Kavadas** was released in the spring of this…
LR’s Elina V. Papageorgiou responds to allaboutshipping’s key questions on current matters
In an exclusive interview with AllAboutShipping, Ms Papageorgiou responds to the challenges the shipping industry faces on the growing environmental demands and tackles neatly the methane slip issue, particularly on…
Global maritime leaders sailed full steam ahead into London in their thousands to attend the biennial London International Shipping Week 2023 (LISW23) which took place from 11th to 15th September.…
ILCA 4 Youth World Championship – 22 to 30 July 2023 – Volos, Greece by Anny Zade In the International Laser Class Youth World Championships between 23 and 30 July…
Migration tragedies in focus as Tate Britain features film-maker Sir Isaac Julien By James Brewer With deeply tragic migration endeavours at the top of the news agenda again, the UK’s…
In an extraordinary mission that took nearly 5 years of planning, Fugro has played a key role in locating the wreck of the Montevideo Maru, one of the worst international maritime disasters…
The shipping company gathered together more than 400 of its stakeholders at its stand at Fitur to commemorate its quarter of a century of activity in maritime transport The company…
by John Faraclas A full house – over 200 people, comprising many of today’s prominent members of Greece’s three-century-plus strong London shipping fraternity and other shipping leaders – attended yesterday…
The Executive MBA in Shipping and Logistics, also known as the Blue MBA, is developing key professionals that will lead the sector towards a greener and sustainable future. The maritime industry…
Ottawa: Parnassos commemorates the 100 years from the Smyrna catastrophe with a speech by Philip Augustine
Lecture given on Sept. 14th at the Hellenic Community of Ottawa. In September 1922, Greece’s “Great Idea” of the expansion of the modern Greek state to Asian minor was crushed.…
Continuous Dry Market fall; mixed Wets. Geopolitics on a shifting sand mode with energy about to derail the already weak Global Economy with Covid still mucking about…
The BDI (Baltic Dry Index) lost both the 1,400 and 1,300 points threshold and now stands at 1,279 points – minus 41 since yesterday and 198 since last week’s (12/08)…
The Markets, particularly the Dry ones fell raising eyebrows; let us hope is a tempo fall as summer is here. The despicable war in Ukraine continues and unimaginable things will…
Research and Development work for autonomous vessels is boosted by Kongsberg’s 1m€ support to TUAS
Research and Development work for autonomous vessels is boosted by Kongsberg’s 1m€ support to TUAS Co-operation between Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) and the Norwegian industrial group Kongsberg is…