Image (c) BP p.l.c. SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)--Asia's crude tanker market may begin to recover due to declining availability of vessels in early August, while increased gasoline demand during summer is also supporting ships carrying clean petroleum products. The rate for a 260,000-metric-ton Very Large Crude Carrier from the Middle East to Japan was last assessed Monday at … [Read more...]
Questions For A Trader
gCaptain has recently expanded into the web design and development business. We recently completed an overhauld of Northeast Maritime Institute's website and our latest venture is a site redesign for Marine Money International (update coming soon). While visiting their Stamford Office I was told of a great blog published by traders working for the cargo futures and … [Read more...]
Poor Loading Plan Of the Week – Cars
. We have seen bad loading plans in the past but this one is a true gem. Thanks to AutosUnleased … [Read more...]
gCaptain Quiz – Unusual Cargo
What is it?? A free gCaptain t-shirt goes out to the first person who can correctly identify this cargo. UPDATE: We have a winner. Charlie of Sea Wolf Engineering correctly identified the cargo as nuclear fuel casks. The owner of the ship, Pacific Nuclear Transport Ltd tells us: The special packages in which PNTL transports nuclear material are called … [Read more...]
Incident Photo Of The Week – M/V Jeppesen Maersk
CargoLaw.com brings us the 2006 incident photos of the M/V Jeppesen Maersk: … [Read more...]
Library Of Congress Releases Maritime Photos
The Library of Congress has announced a partnership with our favorite Web 2.0 photography site Flickr. They tell us: The first incarnation of The Commons is a pilot project we've created in partnership with The Library of Congress. The Library has an enormous photo catalogue, containing over a million photos. The Library team has chosen about 1,500 photos each from two of … [Read more...]
American’s Marine Highway
I am pleased to report a significant amount of positive feedback from mariners when discussing new MARAD (Maritime Administration) initiatives. In addition to being on the forefront of new LNG programs they are aggressively pursuing new ways of providing job opportunities for U.S. Mariners and, the *word on the street* is they are even working with the IRS to protect our … [Read more...]