Featured News & Trends
January 2023
Maritime universities
Turkey with an extended coastline has 16 world class universities providing essential maritime disciplines which no doubt makes for significant inflow of remittances.
Scent of Blood and Sharks
Research shows that in reality the Scent of Blood does not attract Sharks and its a myth. As explained by Cristina Zenato ,
Facilitating Seafarers
Istanbul Airport facilitates Seafarers by opening a separate Desk at Immigration as they are a significant source of foreign exchange & remittances
Reclamation and destruction of Mangroves
Destruction of Mangroves through Reclamation without acquiring Hydrographic study data damages the marine aquatic habitat of shrimps and endangered marine species drastically reducing
Lithium batteries impact on environment
The hype about renewables must cater to the safe and environmentally friendly disposal of millions of lithium batteries as dumping into or near
Renewables
Renewables like wind and solar energy may not be the panacea for solving the worlds energy requirements. The global warming impact of renewables
Aramco Carbon Capture Fund
Saudi Aramco management being amongst the founding members of the oil and gas climate initiative announced the establishment of a sustainability fund to
Fishing
China's lofted success in developing its economy has been correlated with its dramatic rise in education particularly at the secondary stage leading to the tertiary level.
Maritime Logistics
The International Monetary Fund is cautioning of a catastrophe perhaps as severe as the food emergency of 2007-08. Concerns are mounting of the capacity
NEOM
An 86 berth Marina has been designed at NEOM , KSA .Is this project an ambitious attempt at High end Tourism as the
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