Call for papers
Climate and weather hazards rarely occur in isolation. Their compounding and cascading impacts are reshaping risk landscapes and exposing gaps in how societies forecast, communicate, and prepare.
Reports from IMO indicate that the 2010 HNS Convention has now received the necessary signatures and will enter into force in 18 months.
राष्ट्र-परराष्ट्र: एकतन्त्रदेखि गणतन्त्रसम्म (Fine Print Books, 2024) and A Life in Public Service: Nepal from Autocracy to Democracy (Penguin Books, 2026) are available via all book sellers in Nepal, and the latter also throughout South Asia. 📚💙
Wow, one of the greats. RIP
"I get calls from seafarers at two o'clock, three o'clock in the morning. One seafarer called in a panic, saying: 'We are here bombed. We don't want to die. Please help me"".
- ITF Inspector
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Vessels are increasingly being abandoned during the war on Iran, revealing a hidden failure in the global systems that keep goods—and people—moving. www.wired.com/story/legal-...
Disappointing that @stephencolbert.bsky.social was not pitched on hosting America’s Chef and My Fridge where 7 famous US chefs and Kim Poong cook leftovers for celebrities promoting their upcoming projects.
I was in Valdez in 2008, 19 years after the oil spill. A tour guide took out a shovel on the beach and dug a hole a couple feet deep. Once you got to a certain point then oil would fill up the hole.
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#MetsFerry
"Hapag-Lloyd in an advisory said it’s giving Gulf shippers an extra 10 days’ free time if they have to return diverted empty containers via truck – for a flat fee of $25."
Freightwaves: It’s war: Liner charges for ‘free’ Gulf container storage
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Happy Torrey Canyon Day
I'll also recommend chapter 5 of W.G. Sebald's Rings of Saturn.
Unfortunately not a maritime law case
"Unfortunately, the strait States and user States disagree on the passage regime that applies to the Strait of the Hormuz. It results in a parallel legal regime and in a ‘grey area’ in relation to the governance of the Strait of Hormuz."
"More than 10,000 merchant mariners and hundreds of ships are trapped in the Gulf . . . with most operators unwilling to risk the safety of crews in a potentially deadly crossing of the strait."
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"The facilitation of maritime transport relies on safe and predictable navigation and if the US practice becomes more widespread, it is almost certain that it will affect the global shipping industry and not only the ships of the “dark fleet”."
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Please consider sending an abstract to my panel
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World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons
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I'm also looking at other project opportunities outside of the CFP. Please repost if you can!
Rhesa Shipping Co. SA v Edmunds, The Popi M, [1985] 1 WLR 948 [HL]
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Hand-stitched Indian ship arrives in Oman to rousing welcome: The Indian Navy's traditional wooden sailing vessel, INSV Kaundinya, arrived in Muscat, Oman on Wednesday after a 17-day voyage from Porbandar, India, retracing ancient maritime trade routes. Constructed us… https://ranked.news/135389?u=b
A painting of the Statue of Liberty, constructed out of bricks, in a pose expressing sadness, mourning, or melancholy
Martin Wong, "Untitled (Statue of Liberty)," 1990
"The Big Thaw: Who Governs Antarctica's Ice?"
Pleased to see my 2024 Royal Society of NSW Ideas at the House Lecture has now been published in the proceedings of the society.
#antarctica #internationallaw #climatecrisis
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»Um tolerant zu sein, muß man die Grenzen dessen, was nicht tolerierbar ist, festlegen.«
Umberto Eco
geboren am 5. Januar 1932
Carmel’s confirmation as Marad administrator just went through so good luck to him.
According to the ILO's flagship report 2024-26, dealing with climate shocks and implementing just transition policies 'requires comprehensive social protection systems to be in place ex ante". There is already a massive shortfall:
Guy rubbing his hands behind the tree meme but it’s Mike Wolfe and the crew of American Pickers
