India’s logistics costs fell to 7.97 percent of GDP in FY24, down from 8.84 percent a year earlier, with small firms facing the heaviest burden, the DPIIT report shows.
Galaxy Leader is owned by British company, operated by Japanese firm, & registered in Bahamas. Israel strongly condemns Iranian attack against international vessel, says PM office.
46-year-old Anand Francis Fernandes, one of 16 Indian sailors aboard MV Anastasia that was stranded in Chinese waters since September 2020, returned to India Monday.
Sixteen Indian sailors aboard Swiss-Italian cargo vessel MV Anastasia are expected to return by 14 February after the vessel carried out a crew change in Japan.
Investors discovered that strict Covid protocols had left hundreds of seafarers stranded on cargo ships, turning them from engines of global commerce into floating prisons.
The sailors are on two ships, the Indian MV Jag Anand and Swiss-Italian MV Anastasia, that have been denied permission to offload Australian coal they are carrying.
Covid has wrought havoc everywhere, but in the nominally regulated shipping industry it’s fueling a worrying practice: the abandonment of ships, cargo & seafarers.
China wants international shippers of meat and soybeans to attest that their cargo meets safety standards, a requirement companies are wary of for fear of liability.
In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.
IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.
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