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India’s white and parboiled non-basmati rice consignments are being held up at major ports by Customs Authorities, despite the Government easing the curbs on shipments from the country.
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The current situation in Ukraine is fast moving. Dangerous sea areas and changes in the operational status of ports may occur at any time. Updates received from correspondents are published below. You are strongly advised to contact local agents for the latest advice should you have a vessel trading to Ukraine.
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A total of 79 incidents were reported to the IMB Piracy reporting Centre between Jan – Sep 2024. These are broken down as 62 vessels boarded, 9 attempted attacks, 6 vessels hijacked and 2 fired upon. Violence against and the threat to crews continues with 111 crew taken hostage, 11 crew kidnapped and 3 threatened.
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A safety alert to draw lessons learned from an incident in which chemicals made contact with a cook’s eyes onboard.
During the routine cleaning of the galley after dinner service was complete, the vessel cook was using Foaming Oven Cleaner, which contained Sodium Hydroxide. He had sprayed the cleaner into the cooker hood, leaving it a while for the cleaner to activate. He then went back to inspect the area that was being cleaned when some of the chemical cleaner dropped from the cooker hood, falling between the cook’s prescription glasses and his left eye.