Tag: Pakistan

India has banned transits of goods from and to Pakistan amidst escalating military tensions, with both countries placing port restrictions.

This week’s maritime security landscape by Dryad Global highlights intensifying piracy risks in the Gulf of Mexico, escalating naval tensions between India and Pakistan, and wider geopolitical shifts affecting maritime operations across key chokepoints and shipping lanes.

Pakistan has ratified three International Labour Organization (ILO) instruments that will improve workers’ rights, including seafarers, and protections as well as help empower evidence-based policy formulation to drive decent work.

According to the Pakistani government, the containership project was revived due to the efforts of Special Investment Facilitation Council.

The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) and the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) joined forces to rescue 12 crew members from the Indian merchant vessel MSV Al Piranpir, which sank on 4 December in the Arabian Sea during its voyage from Porbandar, Gujarat, to Bandar Abbas, Iran.

The Indian Navy successfully rescued 23 Pakistani sailors along with their Iranian fishing vessel from a pirate attack in the Arabian Sea.

According to GMS’s latest weekly ship-recycling report, as freight markets push further on, global ship recycling markets remain deprived of tonnage, making it an increasingly suffocating environment for ship recyclers to operate in.

According to GMS’s latest weekly ship-recycling report, in spite of Chinese New Year holidays having concluded over a week ago, the ongoing & unending lethargy that is permeating through global ship recycling markets is now being exclusively driven by the relentless & futile shortage of tonnage that is expected to continue until Spring.

According to GMS's latest weekly ship-recycling report, despite Chinese New Year Holidays, a pervading theme of an unrelenting dearth in the overall availability of tonnage across global ship recycling markets has been enduring for several quarters now, resulting in another dry and dreary week of market inactivity and silence across all recycling destinations.

BIMCO, Bangladesh, India, Norway, Pakistan and the ICS, have submitted a paper ahead of the 81st Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) meeting on 18-22 March 2024, to highlight the need to solve possible conflicting requirements of the Hong Kong Convention and the Basel Convention which could have severe consequences, if unresolved.