American Club Circular no.23/21 – (Revised) Sanctions refresher: Venezuela and Cuba OCTOBER 27, 2021 CIRCULAR NO. 23/21 TO MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION Dear Member: SANCTIONS REFRESHER: VENEZUELA AND CUBA OCTOBER 27, 2021 CIRCULAR NO.…
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American Club circular no. 23/2 – sanctions refresher: Venezuela and Cuba OCTOBER 26, 2021 CIRCULAR NO. 23/21 TO MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION Dear Member: SANCTIONS REFRESHER: VENEZUELA AND CUBA OCTOBER 26, 2021 CIRCULAR NO.…
Obituary – Capt. Angel Bravo Solis On 18 March 2020, Captain Angel Bravo Solis, Master Mariner and Salvage Master from Cuba, passed away in Havana, at the age of 69,…
Piraeus, Greece – 30 Aug 2017: Cruising royalty Jane McDonald is back doing what she does best – taking her audience with her on the high seas to explore cruising life in…
Annual Ceremony Celebrates Excellence in Travel & Tourism Piraeus, Greece — Celestyal Cruises, the only home-porting cruise operator in Greece and the preeminent sea cruise line serving Greek destinations and…
First Cruise Sailed from Montego Bay November 18th, arrived in Havana on the 21st Celestyal Cruises, the true specialist in destination centric cruising, is delighted to announce its fourth year…
Guests will visit Cuba’s Isle of Youth for an authentic Cuban beach experience 7th June, 2016: Celestyal Cruises is pleased to announce its newest port of call Punta Frances for the upcoming 2016-2017…
Piraeus, Greece: Celestyal Cruises today announced it will sail year-round in Cuba beginning 21 November 2016. Following its third successful season in Cuba, during which the company was the only…
The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has amended the Cuban Assets Control Regulations (CACR) (the CACR Amendments). Douglas Maag and Daniel Correll write: According to…
Amidst the economic and geopolitical turmoil one should not lose the appetite for gains; John Faraclas explains: With plus four points, the BDI at 322 is more than an attractive…
On September 18, 2015, the US Departments of Treasury and Commerce announced further revisions to the Cuban Assets Control Regulations and the Export Administration Regulations consistent with the continued opening…
The “Celestyal Crystal” a cruise ship with a very colourful life visited Chios on the 24th of September. The 1980 built vessel had also the honour to accommodate and entertain…
Crowley-Managed Philadelphia Express Provides Assistance to Distressed Cuban Rafters near Key West
(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.; Sept. 27, 2015) – The Crowley-managed, Philadelphia Express– a 3, 237 TEU container ship – recently provided assistance to nine Cubans on a makeshift raft adrift near Key West, Fla. As the…
Capers Volatility and Uncertainty reigns in the shipping markets; geopolitics of the edge…
Our thirty-eighth weekly recapitulation of the shipping markets, their respective main indices and world geopolitics affecting same in 2015 and beyond, tonight Friday the 18th of September 2015, with John…
Sanctions update: Navigators Insurance Company Settles with US Sanctions Regulator
According to OFAC, between May 2008 and April 2011 US-based Navigators and its London branch: issued global protection and indemnity (“P&I”) insurance policies that provided coverage to North Korean-flagged vessels…
Our forty-ninth weekly recapitulation of the markets and world geopolitics affecting same, tonight Friday the 19th of December 2014 with John Faraclas of AllAboutShipping in London. • The BDI…
Clyde & Co Update: President Obama Announces Significant Easing of Cuba Sanctions
President Barak Obama has announced that his Administration “is taking steps to chart a new course in [US] relations with Cuba.” In addition to a broad expansion of diplomatic relations…
9 May 2014 – A team of ITF civil aviation representatives built stronger ties with Cuban workers as part of a solidarity mission to the country between 27 April and 2…
03 May 2014 – The North Korean vessel “Chong Chon Gang, ” which was detained in Panama in 2013 as it tried to cross the Panama Canal with undeclared Cuban…
7 March 2014 – ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) president Paddy Crumlin today called on the UK government to rethink its refusal of a visa to René González, who was…
North Korea gave Cuba extensive military support in the 1980s, former President Fidel Castro said on Wednesday as the United Nations investigated a cargo of hidden Cuban arms discovered last month in the hold of a North Korean ship.…