Category: English news

***Will Drone Cargo Ships Sail the Seven Seas? Courtesy Rolls-Royce Holdings Drone ship concept The prospects for driverless cars and aerial drones delivering packages for Amazon.com (AMZN) made headlines in 2013. But when Oskar Levander, Rolls-Royce Holdings’ (RR/:LN) vice president for innovation in marine engineering, advocated Далее

***Plight of stranded TMT crew improves Eleven sailors stranded off Malta on the Today Makes Tomorrow (TMT) vessel A Ladybug since last summer have been flown home, but some crews have not been so fortunate The plight of crew stranded Далее

***The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Curing the Sea Blind About the video: Ships are growing larger and larger, and yet they take up less and less space in our imagination. So laments Rose George. The journalist has brought the significance Далее

***Portuguese dockers end 18 month dispute Dockers in Lisbon have voted to end 18 months of industrial action over port deregulation legislation introduced by the Portuguese government in February last year. The vote followed an unexpected negotiating breakthrough at a Далее

***Portsmouth demo to tackle Condor Ferries’ ‘social dumping’ Trade unionists and ITF inspectors will protest at Portsmouth, England, tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon against the employment practices of ferry operator Condor Ferries. Representatives of ITF-affiliated unions, including the RMT and Unite the Далее

Global unions welcome Finnish food chain report Global unions welcome Finnish food chain report Global unions the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) and IUF (International Union of Food, Agricultural and Hospitality Workers) today welcomed the release of research by Finnish Далее

***ITF: Pelaut Indonesia Terancam Menganggur REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — Federasi Pekerja Transport Internasional (ITF) mendesak pemerintah Indonesia segera meratifikasi Konvensi Pekerja Maritim (Maritime Labour Convention, MLC) karena terancam jadi pengangguran karena tidak direkrut kapal internasional. “Jika pemerintah tidak segera meratifikasi MLC Далее

***TRADE UNIONS STILL CONCERNED OVER FUTURE OF AIR TRAFIC CONTROL European trade unions are still up in arms over the reduction of air traffic control budgets proposed for the 2015-2019 period. These cuts were ratified by member state experts during Далее

***ITF помог получить приморским морякам двухмесячную задолженность по зарплате Владивосток. 6 января. ИНТЕРФАКС – ДАЛЬНИЙ ВОСТОК – Международная федерация транспортных рабочих (ITF) в ходе недели борьбы с “удобными флагами” защитила права приморских моряков и помогла им вернуть свыше 4 млн Далее

***Borealis buys IMTC containerships Interested in this topic?Set up a custom email alert and we’ll tell you everytime we write more like this. Maersk Vancouver is one of three containerships acquired by Borealis. Maersk steps in over laid-up vessels to Далее