The ever-increasing scale and complexity of marine transportation requires a proactive approach to risk management. Professional skills, experience and regulation have great advantages but cannot foresee all possible risks in advance. A review of incidents often finds that opportunities were missed to identify and mitigate the risks.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the recent Mpox clade 1b strain outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. This is due to a surge in cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a growing number of countries in Africa constitutes.
In Circular 23/14 of August 11, 2014 entitled Steel Cargo Pre-Load Surveys: all recommendations in regard to the conduct of precautionary surveys of certain steel cargoes to minimize the prospect of spurious steel cargo claims.
A ship in the Red Sea faced multiple attacks on 13 August, including strikes using an Uncrewed Surface Vehicle (USV), attributed to Yemen’s Houthi rebels, 63NM southwest of Al Hudaydah, Yemen.