SNCM seafarers strike to avoid receivership

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Published on Saturday, 29 March 2014 22:59
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Andrew Spurrier
26 March 2014
 
SNCM ship Danielle Casanova. Photo: SNCM

Sailings to Corsica and North Africa by French Mediterranean ferry company SNCM were brought to a standstill today (26 March) as seafarers went on strike in an attempt to prevent the company being put into receivership.

The seafarers are striking for 24 hours, but have warned that they are ready to renew their action on a daily basis if they fail to get a satisfactory response to their demands from the French government.

They are looking to have the company brought under French state control by forcing out its leading private sector shareholder, Veolia. Veolia is in a joint venture with state financial institution Caisse des Depots in Transdev, which has a 66% holding in the Marseilles-based

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Ship masters 'should check conditions in Singapore Straits'

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Published on Saturday, 29 March 2014 22:53
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Ship masters 'should check conditions in Singapore Straits'

Given the amount of land reclamation and general works in the Singapore Strait, ship masters should seek up-to-date information about sea conditions prior to entering, said UK-based protection and indemnity organisation Standard Club. The Standard Club was commenting on the recent collisions in the Singapore Strait, which have raised concern among the city-state's shipping community. The collisions also prompted the Singapore Flag State to produce an updated Guide to the Singapore Straits, in cooperation with the Singapore Shipping Association. In the evening of 29 January, COSCO's container ship Fei He collided with Cido Shipping's chemical tanker Lime Galaxy off Jurong Island. Less than 24 hours later, an NYK box ship, NYK Themis, collided with

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Watchkeeper: How big can containerships grow? BIMCO

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Salvors were meeting in London last week, at the International Salvage Union Associate Members’ day, with giant containerships and the difficulties of salvaging them a topic for consideration. The extraordinary explosion in ship size over the past ten years has been an amazing feature of modern shipping, with salvors, like ports and pretty well everyone else, struggling to keep up with the technology. “Whatever we think about containerships will probably happen and sooner than you think”, commented David Tozer of Lloyd’s Register, whose job was to bring the salvors completely up to date.

He suggested that there was no sign that ship sizes had reached the end of their extrapolation, with the economic justification for bigger ships taking more boxes more cheaply an unarguable rationale.

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Jefe de Máquinas y escritor. RAMIRO PINILLA

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Published on Saturday, 29 March 2014 09:21
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              Ramiro Pinilla . Marino Civil y escritor

                                                                                                     

 

"Tengo 89 años. Nací en Bilbao y vivo en Getxo. Soy escritor. Tengo tres hijos y vivo en pareja. Soy de izquierdas, y fui  comunista por antifranquista. La naturaleza nada tiene que ver con Dios:  dejé de creer.

El secreto de la longevidad es no enfadarse por bobadas y  minucias" (La Vanguardia)

Le veo la mar de  bien.

 ¡Porque como muchas naranjas! Tres o cuatro al día: ese es mi secreto de  salud.

 Algún otro tendrá.

 Paseo cada mañana, leo... y, sobre todo, ¡evito discutir! Esto es lo  fundamental. Yo ya he aprendido a no alterarme por minucias. Sólo por lo  importante.

 ¿Y qué es lo importante?

 La mayoría de lo que nos sucede durante el

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