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Foundation Skills training for Caribbean stevedores

... because ports cannot function effectively without trained people achines may give a port some capabilities but, by themselves, they will not make a port great. People do … those that are trained t

Inter-American Committee on Ports – priorities for 2022

Capacity building, disaster risk management, empowerment ndications are that despite the sustained displacements created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of a resilient Inter-American Committee on P

Seafarers need better support

Seafarers need better support * … says Capt. Rawle Baddaloo, Co-Leader CARIBMEPA 2021, August 1: I cannot say Happy World Seafarers Day as it is far from happy. Seafarers are key workers and they need

NEW DAWN, NEW NORMAL – The Human Impact

2021, April 2: COVID-19 IS NOT THE WORLD’S FIRST PANDEMIC and certainly not the deadliest. It is, however, the most widespread and disruptive the world has ever seen. The reason is simple: a global ec

NEW DAWN NEW NORMAL: IMO Support in post-pandemic Caribbean

Seafarers at the core of shipping’s future ◊ Ratification of IMO regulations still an issue BY Colin P. Young * The international maritime regulatory framework has allowed international shipping to ke

CIP: Improved disaster risk management for Caribbean ports

Improved disaster risk management for Caribbean ports 2020 December 01: Record-breaking hurricane activity in the Atlantic during 2020 emphasised the timeliness and urgency of the Improved Disaster Ri

STRANDED AT SEA: ICS sounds alarm – seafarers must be made ‘Key Workers’

2020 October 01: The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), on International Day of the Seafarer (June 25, 2020) sounded the alarm about the plight of seafarers. And, within a week, posted on its w

GLOBAL TRADE: Should the Caribbean be concerned?

GLOBAL TRADE: Should the Caribbean be concerned? 2020, October 1: There is growing concern (if not fear) that the world appears to be re-embracing the old principles that characterized the Westphalian

Stranded at Sea: Human rights, contracts and the law during a pandemic

By Deniece M. Aiken * 2020, October 1: Governments should heed the call to protect their nationals at sea by officially according their seafarers ‘key worker’ status. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19

STRANDED AT SEA: Seafarers ‘stuck at sea’ a threat to global stability

STRANDED AT SEA: Seafarers ‘stuck at sea’ a threat to global stability Make them global-essential ‘Key Workers’ 2020 October 01: As the sun rose on World Maritime Day 2020, the fate of almost one mill

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