Will the tide turn?
The man at a stall in the wet market in Wuhan held the snake tight in his left hand and swung down his machete on its head. The head was cut but was not severed from the body. The customer standing in front of him shook his head, said something in Chinese, and walked away.
“Why did the customer leave in a huff,” Eldhose Varghese, a quartermaster on a cruise vessel, who had been watching all that had been happening, asked the Chinese man standing beside him.
The man replied something in Chinese but Eldhose who has been around the world several times did not get it.
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Sheikh Karim, a seafarer in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, spends hours on his phone everyday, scrolling through overseas shipping jobs he can’t apply for. Along with the Philippines and China, India is one of the largest suppliers of crew to the global shipping industry. But a huge surge of COVID-19 infections in the .
The Ever Given container ship grounded itself in the Suez Canal for nearly a week in March.Egyptian authorities are holding the ship in local waterways until
Officials in Egypt have seized the Ever Given as authorities in the country demand the ship s owners pay nearly $1 billion for blocking the Suez Canal for