MANAGEMENT - Portside Caribbean

SEA LEVEL RISE: Port managers must take the lead

Sea level rise (SLR) will spell the end for many Caribbean ports as we know them today. By Rawle Baddaloo* 2021, August 1: Recent accounts of exceedingly high atmospheric temperatures on the North Ame

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

Eastern Caribbean’s Maritime Single Window about to open

2020, December 01: When the former British, French, Spanish and Dutch colonies moved into various forms of political independence, their peoples adopted or adapted methods and procedures inherited fro

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: 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

BERTHING/UNBERTHING ACCIDENTS – Preventing catastrophe

Managing to prevent catastrophe By Capt. Rawle Baddaloo* 2020, October 1: The ultra large container ship the Milano Bridge collided with multiple ship-to-shore gantry cranes and, in the same incident,

Port protection demands comprehensive protocols

Port protection demands comprehensive protocols 2020, October 1: The response to a global pandemic must be immediate and precise. Time is of the essence and imprecision is counter-productive if not tr

IMO 2020: National laws urgently necessary

WHAT PORT MANAGERS SHOULD KNOW IMO 2020: National laws urgently necessary By Deniece M. Aiken * 2020, April 2: Burning forests in Australia, melting ice caps in the Arctic and the upsurge of hurricane

SEA LEVEL RISE Not yet a hot topic in the Caribbean?

SEA LEVEL RISE Not yet a hot topic in the Caribbean? 2020 April 2: As oceans get warmer, sea levels rise and the land (and all that is on it) disappears, because nothing will stop the sea. And the lan

Improper declaration, shipboard fires – a major problem getting worse

Improper declaration, shipboard fires - a major problem getting worse Malcolm Maclean, an American businessman and transport entrepreneur, invented the modern intermodal shipping container and on Apri

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