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Cruise tourists are not influenced by extended shopping opportunities. They spend very little money during the port of call even when they are offered an increased number of spending options.

Cruise tourists are not influenced by extended shopping opportunities. They spend very little money during the port of call even when they are offered an increased number of spending options.

Chaos at sea: Pirates are said to have hijacked the tanker "Aegean II" in the Gulf of Aden, the shipping service "G-Captain" reported at the end of August. Two days later it was reported that men in police uniforms had boarded the "Aegean II". They took the weapons from the private security forces on board the ship and demanded money from the 20-member ship crew. As a Spanish military ship approached, they disappeared as quickly as they had come. It is still unclear whether the perpetrators were pirates - or even Somali policemen...

Time to rock the boat? Cruise ships can destroy the very destinations they sell to us .

Time to rock the boat? Cruise ships can destroy the very destinations they sell to us .

Commercial Ships Could Be Quieter, but They Aren't.

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As they sailed on the turbulent tides of the sea off the coast of Cote D'Ivoire, several thoughts ran through the minds of the 18 crew members on board MT MAXIMUS, a Saudi-Arabian ship. Perhaps, some of the thoughts could have been when they would return home to their loved ones , having spent six months on the sea.Then, an incident that punctured their thoughts and truncated the sailing escapade occurred, with the unprecedented invasion of some armed pirates right inside the ship!

They seize more than 100 kilos of cocaine hidden on board 2 vessels in San Francisco.

African states don't prioritise maritime security - here's why they should.

Unmanned 'ghost' ships are coming - but they could cost the cargo industry dearly.

The global COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has forced small island states to make rapid changes to the way they manage their marine estates following changes in global shipping practices and access which are essential for the supply of food items and island's infrastructure. Following the closure of the border of neighboring French Polynesia, changes had to be made to the PITCAIRN Islands' sole supply vessel route, which resulted in the vessel requiring to set anchor on arrival at the island to conserve fuel. Considering this change and to ensure the continued protection of vulnerable coral habitats the local government has had to make swift decisions to identify anchoring zones that minimize seabed disturbance. Data collected in January 2020, just prior to the pandemic, were assessed using a rapid assessment method and combined with earth observation data to create the first shallow water (s pristine, marine habitats during these unprecedented times.

As the current COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting crew change crisis exacerbates the mental health problem faced by seafarers, various maritime stakeholders have mobilised their resources and strengths to provide a variety of supportive measures to address the issue. This paper aims to find out what measures have been adopted in the industry and how widely they have been experienced/received by seafarers and evaluate their effectiveness. To achieve this aim, this research employed a mixed methods design involving qualitative interviews with 26 stakeholders and a quantitative questionnaire survey of 817 seafarers. The research identified a total number of 22 mental health support measures, all of which were perceived to have contributed positively to seafarers' mental health. However, not all of them were widely available to or utilised by seafarers. The findings also highlighted the importance of family, colleagues, shipping companies, and government agencies, as they are associated with the most effective support measures, namely communication with family, timely crew changes, being prioritised for vaccination, being vaccinated, and a positive and collegial atmosphere on-board. Based on the findings, recommendations are provided.

Surface atmospheric temperatures over the Arctic Ocean are rising faster than the global average, and sea-ice coverage has declined, making some areas newly accessible to ocean-going ships. Even so, Arctic waters remain hazardous to ships, in part, because of the highly variable nature of sea-ice formation and drift in some areas. In this study, we investigated interannual variability in polar class (PC) ship accessibility in the northern BERING Sea and seas north of the BERING Strait (East Siberian, Chukchi, Beaufort) from February 2012 to February 2022. We used sea-ice charts from the U.S. National Ice Center and calculations of the Risk Index Outcome (RIO) for PC3, PC5, and PC7 ships to characterize spatiotemporal trends in PC ship accessibility during the months of February, June, September, and November over the last 10 to 11 years. We also characterized shipping activity on select days in 2021. Overall, PC ship accessibility during the months of February and June increased over the last decade, especially for PC7 ships. However, areas that became more accessible over time did not support heavy ship traffic, possibly because they were not located on preferred transit routes or because they were surrounded by unnavigable ice, which made them inaccessible in practice. Ship accessibility was highly variable in the northernmost, offshore regions of the study site. During June, PC7 ship accessibility was interannually variable in waters south of the BERING Strait, and ships were active in those regions (most were fishing vessels), indicating potentially hazardous conditions during this time of year. Accessibility was considerably less variable over space and time (months, years) for PC5 (ice capable) ships and for PC3 ships (heavy icebreakers). Information from this study can be used by PC ship operators planning safe and successful shipping routes and by coastal states preparing emergency services to protect the maritime community. As governments and the private se

During underwater operations, divers must determine their own trajectories using the Inertial Navigation System (INS) they carry to improve operational efficiency. However, the INS contains a sensor bias that is also incorporated into the quadratic integration process to obtain the displacement, resulting in trajectory drift of the divers during prolonged self-guidance. To overcome the above problem, other aids are needed to correct the accumulated error of the INS. The single-beacon Assisted Inertial Navigation (AIN) method can improve the flexibility of inertial error correction while simplifying the localization equipment, which is suitable for the INS cumulative error correction scenario of divers. However, most of the traditional single-beacon assisted correction methods do not consider the effect of acoustic line bending on hydroacoustic ranging, and at the same time, they do not consider the problem of singular or pathological coefficient matrices introduced by inertial navigation neighbor localization deviations. Based on the above two shortcomings, this paper uses the acoustic velocity profile for acoustic line tracking, combines the localization idea of Mobile Primitives (MP), and proposes an MP-based acoustic line tracking-Assisted Inertial Navigation Localization (AINL) method, which constructs a sliding time window (STW) by taking the historical positioning of divers as a virtual primitive, and combines the nonlinear optimization method for iterative optimization search as a means to improve the accuracy and stability of self-navigation of the divers.

To meet demand for increasingly popular cruise travel, international shipyards are building new ships as fast as they can.

To meet demand for increasingly popular cruise travel, international shipyards are building new ships as fast as they can.

BARGUNA: Robbers abducted 25 fishermen along with three fishing boats from Bay of Bengal while they were catching fish at Patharghata in Barguna on Friday night, reports BSS. President of Barguna district fishing trawler owners association Golam Mustafa CHOWDHURY confirmed the abduction of the fishermen.

BARGUNA: Robbers abducted 25 fishermen along with three fishing boats from Bay of Bengal while they were catching fish at Patharghata in Barguna on Friday night, reports BSS. President of Barguna district fishing trawler owners association Golam Mustafa CHOWDHURY confirmed the abduction of the fishermen.

Elizabeth DEL CARMEN and Juan Felipe CARDENAS, residents on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, describe their fears of what will happen to their community as building begins on the interoceanic canal. They worry that promises of relocation and compensation will not be sufficient and that their families will be badly affected

Elizabeth DEL CARMEN and Juan Felipe CARDENAS, residents on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, describe their fears of what will happen to their community as building begins on the interoceanic canal. They worry that promises of relocation and compensation will not be sufficient and that their families will be badly affected

They waved, cheered and let out sighs of relief as their rubber boat, packed with dozens of mainly Syrian and Afghan refugees, approached the Greek coast guard ship that would rescue them at open sea near the island of Lesbos.

They waved, cheered and let out sighs of relief as their rubber boat, packed with dozens of mainly Syrian and Afghan refugees, approached the Greek coast guard ship that would rescue them at open sea near the island of Lesbos.

Scuba divers in George Town, Grand Cayman, were alarmed this week when they noticed a luxury cruise ship encroaching on a protected coral reef. The MV Zenith, a 700-foot ship with a carrying capacity of roughly 1,800 passengers, was "anchored oddly close to the reef," said diver Scott Prodahl, in a YouTube video on Dec. 8.

Scuba divers in George Town, Grand Cayman, were alarmed this week when they noticed a luxury cruise ship encroaching on a protected coral reef. The MV Zenith, a 700-foot ship with a carrying capacity of roughly 1,800 passengers, was "anchored oddly close to the reef," said diver Scott Prodahl, in a YouTube video on Dec. 8.

Autonomous ships: are they the future of the seven seas?