In a bid to strengthen relationships and interoperability, the US Coast Guard conducted a multilateral search and rescue drill alongside longtime partners from the UK, Japan, and the west Pacific Republic of Palau in late July. This was reported by USCG Forces Micronesia from Santa Rita, Guam, early in August.

MOU with Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd

Indian Register of Shipping (IRS) and Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd. (GRSE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at Kolkata on 7 July.

Ireland is donating €400,000* to help developing countries and least developed countries (LDCs) increase their trade know-how and play a bigger part in global trade.

According to a statement from Anchorage, Alaska, on 7 August US Coast Guard personnel have been working with partner agencies to monitor a lubricant leak from a container ship that was on passage to Anchorage the previous week.

A port facility security assessment was held in Port Louis, Mauritius  from 1-5 August led by a team of IMO experts.

PIANC, in cooperation with IADC, is organizing an international conference on Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) in Brussels on 6 October 2022.

Questions asked and to be addressed are (i) how can early involvement of the main contractor and its supply chain create value for the developer of an infrastructure project?

IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has welcomed the departure from Odesa of the first commercial ship to leave the port under the United Nations supported Black Sea Grain Initiative to establish a humanitarian maritime corridor for the safe passage of ships from Ukraine. 

Financial assistance must be expanded to help developing and least-developed country (LDC) members establish sustainable fisheries in light of an historic World Trade Organization agreement to curb harmful fishing subsidies. This comment was made by Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at an Aid for Trade Global Review event on 27 July.

Newly arrived tugboat SAAM CONDOR, left, is pictured being welcomed to Peru by her sister tug ALBATROS after being delivered to SAAM Towage by leading Turkish tugboat builder Sanmar Shipyards.

Like her sister, SAAM CONDOR is based on the exclusive to Sanmar RAmparts 2400SX design from Canadian naval architects Robert Allan Ltd. Both tugs will work out of the Port of Callao.

The Normal Amsterdam Water Level (NAP) has been used as the basis for Vessel Traffic Services in the port of Rotterdam for some 200 years. On 1 July, the Port of Rotterdam Authority will abandon NAP in shipping communication. As from that day, it will use the Approximate Lowest Astronomical Tide (ALAT) as a reference for water depths and water levels in the admission policy. Internationally, this reference is common practice in shipping.