Herr Macron has made a wise decision after consulting with his wife who uses strong arguments. Will we all see Herr Macron wearing dark glasses again?
Thanks for resuscitating somewhere to put general news about shipping, whether worldwide or otherwise.
Here is my first contribution, which should be of interest to a wide audience, as it affects many in the shipping world:
Do not prise the day before sunset Herr Bugge. May the force be with you to continue this useful thread.
U.S. Confirms Attack That Left Three Missing from Product Tanker off Oman
REM: " Hormuz in the news " thread is blocked by 3 consecutive posts ban
Unilaterally declared blocked by USA. No UN sanction. No consultation with allied nations, or IMO:
Are we back in the days of “might makes right”?
If the mighty US Navy wants to enforce blocked of Iranian ports, why are they not doing it inside the Persian Gulf?
Are they afraid of attack by missiles and drones?
Haven’t they heard that the Iranian navy has been sunk, the air force and all other Iranian forces destroyed?:
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/07/nx-s1-5846872/trump-says-irans-military-is-totally-destroyed-heres-where-their-stockpiles-stand
The barnacle problem will get much bigger i think but long stay on anchorage or adrift will make engineers happy as daily slip calculacion may be skipped.
I suspect we will get one of these pretty soon:
OFF TOPIC OBSERVATION : and THAT IS ALSO NEWS
Meantime while searching for the banner above i have discovered another deliberate , planned and discriminatory action which can not be a system auto action but manual intervention or reprograming .
I clicked the pencil edit button on older post containing the banner above and could not edit the post and got instead the banner " do you want to dicard the post" , so i went to the button indicating my former 3 edits and opened the window with edit history offering larger view of my banner.
There in the lower right hand corner is also eddit button with the pencil so i clicked it and the banner pops up asking " do you want to discard your post " .
So the deliberate , prejudiced and discriminatory actions by biased individual having moderators powers is playing games here thinking it will discourage me from participation and provided me now with two options to discard the post .One the " BIN " and another " pencil" . Very nice .
So i made a brief film from my screen for evidential purposes of discriminatory manipulations . And of course my polite requests regarding location of thread or link where to present legitimate grievances has not materialised yet.
What has happened to my flag where i reported abusive , chauvinistic and racial slurs of one of the prominent frequent users? and where is my FIRST FLAG BADGE?
The SV Juren Ae on Majuro lagoon in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Image: PB
Source: Pacific ministers bet on regional shipping pact to unlock climate cash - Islands Business
What a surprise.
Judging by 1000s of pages , where doomsday folks printed their cataclismic predictions about rising water levels and what not i am surprised they are still above the water. Good for them they are not.
Lovely boat and how romantic but may be they show the economic results this lovely concept generates in comparison with other so much hated concepts based on fossil fuels.
These countries make a lot of noise in IMO giving a chance for other virtue signallers to remind others of their existance.
From my desk : lovely , great , steady as she goes but it looks to me like another PR stunt w/o economic significance unless proven on paper with untampered figures.
Now imagine what this countries could achieve if our friends here would allocate all these 500 bln usd for such a lofty purpose instead of spending it somewhere else disturbing the world economy and emptying my effing wallet with therir schema.