Transports
The EU Mobility Package: interpretative notes - an Italian perspective
By ASLA - Associazione degli Studi Legali Associati
ANALYSIS
The "green" revolution of the PNRR also passes through the ports
By ASLA - Associazione degli Studi Legali Associati
golden ray
US Coast Guard: “Large oil leak during Georgia ship demolition”
Demolition crews began working in November to remove the ship by cutting it into eight giant chunks and placing them on barge
europe
CureVac COVID-19 vaccine records only 48% efficacy in final trial readout
"In this final analysis, CVnCoV demonstrates a strong public health value in fully protecting study participants in the agegroup of 18 to 60 against hospitalization and death and 77% against moderate and severe disease”
regulation
Shipping, heating and cars targeted in EU carbon market revamp
Free carbon permits will end for industries covered by theEU's planned carbon border levy, the draft said, a proposal manufacturing sectors are expected to resist.
Russia
Putin says the time will come when he names his possible successor
Putin, a KGB officer in the Cold War, came to power afterbeing named acting president in December 1999 by his ailing predecesor Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first post-Soviet president.
green logistics
EU steers shipping towards carbon trading market to curb emissions
EU countries and the European Parliament, which has said itwants shipping added to the ETS in 2022, would need to negotiatefinal rules, which could take around two years.
covid
EU Commission wants tougher rules for consumer credit deals
The proposal also includes caps on the total cost of creditand the annual percentage rate of charge, rules on tacitlyaccepted overdrafts and an obligation by the creditor or theprovider of crowdfunding credit services to assess thecreditworthiness of the consumer.
FOCUS
Mental health and wellbeing in the offshore sector
If a week is a long time in politics, then two weeks’ quarantine in a foreign hotel room overlooking a car park can seem an eternity
Against distorting foreign subsidies
European Commission launches the shield to protect our ports from non-EU takeovers
By ASLA - Associazione degli Studi Legali Associati
Under new NAFTA
U.S. unions lodge first Mexico labor grievance
Mexico City - U.S. unions on Monday filed the first labor rights petition against Mexico under a new regional trade pact, vying to bring a complaint against an auto parts company on the border that they say has denied workers the right to independent representation
As relations curdle
China suspends economic dialogue mechanism with Australia
Beijing - China "indefinitely" suspended on Thursday all activity under a China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue, its state economic planner said, the latest setback for their strained relations: "Some Australian Commonwealth Government officials launched a series of measures to disrupt the normal exchanges and cooperation between China and Australia out of Cold War mindset and ideological discrimination," China's NDRC said
Analysis
From ZES to ZLR strengthened: an opportunity for the country in administrative simplification
By ASLA - Associazione degli Studi Legali Associati
Analysis
Does the revival of air transport also involve the vaccine?
By ASLA - Associazione degli Studi Legali Associati
Analysis
Brexit consequences on the shipping industry
By ASLA - Associazione degli Studi Legali Associati
But concerns over vaccine hesitancy
EU eyes 'Vaxproof' document to revive travel
Brussels - The European Commission is working on a vaccine certificate, dubbed 'Vaxproof', that could help restore cross-border travel, EU officials said, but the plan is dividing EU nations. The issue has been discussed for months but has led to no compromise because of fears over vaccine hesitancy and privacy. The EU executive Commission is working on a system for mutual recognition in all 27 EU countries of a certificate proving the holder has been vaccinated
Analysis
Minimum costs of transport: almost return to the the past
By ASLA - Associazione degli Studi Legali Associati
Costa Rica
Scanner operators at APM Terminals among arrested for facilitating exit of container with cocaine
Moín - Two women in charge of operating the scanners at the APM Terminals dock, in Moín (Limon) were detained for providing false information about a container loaded with fruit and containing 990 kilos of cocaine morning.The drug hidden in the shipment of pineapple that left the Limon megaport was seized on August 17 in the port of Rotterdam
Tensions with Greece
Turkish survey ship begins operations in East Mediterranean
A Turkish seismic survey ship has reached the location in the eastern Mediterranean where it will operate and has begun to take readings
Analysis
EU ship recycling legislation, news on the hazardous materials front
By ASLA - Associazione Studi Legali Associati
Cheng Feng
HNA Group chairman barred from flying, vacationing on firm's failure to pay court-ordered $5,300
Beijing - The chairman of cash-strapped HNA Group has been barred from taking flights and high-speed trains and going on vacations due to the Chinese conglomerate's failure to pay a court-ordered $5,300 in a lawsuit
The crisis
EU must consider severe sanctions on Turkey, Greece says
European Union leaders should impose “severe” economic sanctions on Turkey for a limited time if Ankara does not remove its military vessels and gas drilling ships from waters off Cyprus
New rules
Royal Canadian Navy drops 'seaman' title for gender-neutral term 'sailor'
Ottawa - The Royal Canadian Navy is ditching the term “seaman” in favour of the gender-neutral “sailor,” the organization said Thursday: “By adopting gender neutral designation for junior members of the Royal Canadian Navy, we demonstrate to all Canadians that the Canadian Armed Forces will welcome anybody who wants to serve their country and uphold the values of inclusion and diversity"- Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said in a statement
ANALYSIS
The covid 19 impacts for container demurrages e detentions costs: an italian perspective
By ASLA - Associazione degli Studi Legali Associati
The Event
At the EuroScience Open Forum in Trieste, scientists and experts discuss autonomous ships
Trieste - On 1 September 2020, the EuroScience Open Forum - Esof, the largest interdisciplinary scientific meeting in Europe, will begin in Trieste. An extraordinary event dedicated to scientific research and innovation
Energy exploration in the Mediterranean
Cyprus: EU "appesament" of Turkey in exploration row will go nowhere
Cyprus on Monday criticised European Union partners over what it said was diffidence amounting to “a policy of appeasement” in dealing with Turkey
Worth of 20 million dollars
380 kg of Cocaine found in container at London Gateway Port
London - British officials have seized about £15.2m ($19.4m) worth of cocaine hidden in the floor of a refrigerated container at the London Gateway port in Essex. Border Force officers found 380 kg of the drug in a container carrying bananas from Costa Rica to Germany, after an X-ray revealed an anomaly in the insulation cavity
Crackdown on foreign garbage
China to keep issuing scrap import quotas till end of 2020
China’s environment ministry said it would keep up its system of approving import quotas for solid waste, including scrap metal, until the end of 2020