Category: International

Maritime Stakeholders Implore US, UK, UAE, Others On Crew Change Crisis
July 10, 2020 No Responses

Maritime Stakeholders Implore US, UK, UAE, Others On Crew Change Crisis

Thirteen countries have committed to facilitating crew changes and achieving key worker designation for seafarers, following a virtual ministerial summit hosted by the UK government July 9, 2020. This step is said to represent a significant progress to help resolve a growing crisis facing the...
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Maersk Sells Containership For Green Recycling
July 9, 2020 No Responses

Maersk Sells Containership For Green Recycling

Maersk, owner and operator of the world’s largest container shipping fleet, has sold a 9, 640 TEU containership Sine Maersk for demolition in Turkey. The 22-year-old containership has a market value of $ 11.69 million, according to the data from...
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Nigeria To Review Size Of Embassies
July 8, 2020 No Responses

Nigeria To Review Size Of Embassies

The Federal Government is to review the operations of some of its embassies abroad as well the Technical Aid Corps (TAC) scheme. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffery Onyeama, disclosed this when he featured as the special guest on News Agency...
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Largest Online Gathering Of Workers, Employers, Others To Brainstorm On Post-Pandemic Recovery
July 7, 2020 No Responses

Largest Online Gathering Of Workers, Employers, Others To Brainstorm On Post-Pandemic Recovery

More than 50 Heads of State and government, as well as prominent global employers’ and trade union leaders are to take part in global discussions on COVID-19 and the World of Work, which be held online, 7-9 July.A statement issued...
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FIFA Bans Former Top Official, Kattner, For 10 years
July 1, 2020 No Responses

FIFA Bans Former Top Official, Kattner, For 10 years

Soccer’s world governing body FIFA has banned Markus Kattner, a former leading official in the Zurich organisation, for 10 years. The sports governing body fined him one million Swiss francs ($1.06 million) after a probe into bonus payments. FIFA said...
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The World Must Continue To Fight Corruption, Says Commonwealth Scribe
June 17, 2020 No Responses

The World Must Continue To Fight Corruption, Says Commonwealth Scribe

Countries’ response to Covid-19, their long-term development and the meeting of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are all threatened by the “invisible infection” of corruption, the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland, has warned...
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Ford Recalls 2.5m Vehicles
June 11, 2020 No Responses

Ford Recalls 2.5m Vehicles

Ford is recalling about 2.5 million vehicles in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere because of a nagging door latch problem and a brake fluid leak.The door latch recall covers more than 2.1 million cars, SUVs and vans in the U.S. The...
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Pope Donates €1m For Coronavirus Charity Efforts In Rome
June 10, 2020 No Responses

Pope Donates €1m For Coronavirus Charity Efforts In Rome

Pope Francis has offered one million euros (1.1 million dollars) for a new charity fund targeting people in Rome left in dire straits by the coronavirus economic crisis. The fund, called “Jesus Divine Worker,” will be managed by the Roman...
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ILO Seeks Release Of 150,000 Seafarers Trapped On Board Ships
June 9, 2020 No Responses

ILO Seeks Release Of 150,000 Seafarers Trapped On Board Ships

The International Labour Organization (ILO) on has  called for urgent and coordinated action to release the 150,000 to 200,000 seafarers trapped on board ships around the world because of measures to contain the COVID-19  virus.The ILO in a statement on M...
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Opinion: Racism Seeks To Drive Us Apart But There Are Rays Of Hope
June 9, 2020 No Responses

Opinion: Racism Seeks To Drive Us Apart But There Are Rays Of Hope

By Patricia Scotland, Commonwealth Secretary-General Today, I received a message from a parent. Her nine-year-old son, Oscar, had been sitting in his living room during the Covid-19 lockdown, watching coverage of protests, sparked by the death of George Floyd ...
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World Bank Begins APPEALS Project Implementation Review
June 9, 2020 No Responses

World Bank Begins APPEALS Project Implementation Review

The 5thWorld Bank Implementation Support Mission (ISM) of the Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Support (APPEALS) Project commenced on Monday online across all Project Implementation Units (PIUs).  Scheduled to end Thursday, June 11...
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“Post-COVID Recovery Should Lock In Ocean Sustainability“
June 7, 2020 No Responses

“Post-COVID Recovery Should Lock In Ocean Sustainability“

The Commonwealth Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland is urging governments to ensure their countries’ post-COVID economic recoveries are environmentally sustainable and safe for the ocean. Forty-seven of the Commonwealth’s 54 member countries ha...
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UNCTAD Appoints Dona Bertarelli Special Adviser For Blue Economy
June 5, 2020 No Responses

UNCTAD Appoints Dona Bertarelli Special Adviser For Blue Economy

Dona Bertarelli, the fastest woman to sail around the world, philanthropist, ocean conservation advocate and entrepreneur, has been named theUNCTAD Special Adviser for the Blue Economy. Ms. Bertarelli will help UNCTAD promote a sustainable blue economy, partic...
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Again, Messi Misses Training
June 5, 2020 No Responses

Again, Messi Misses Training

FC Barcelona captain Lionel Messi sat out Friday’s training session as he has a small thigh strain, the Spanish league champions have said. Barca returned to full training on Monday for the first time in three months ahead of the...
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