US Coast Guard Rolls Out New Mentoring Program
Marketplace (Circle Mentoring) - Connects Coast Guard personnel with shared interests in a wide variety of communities to enrich career development.•Fresh Perspectives: Insight From Future Leaders - Empowering emerging leaders to share their insights in a group setting with senior leadership.•Flash Mentoring - One-time/speed mentoring, enables mentees to receive guidance on specific issues or topics from subject matter experts.The program was created as a result of various surveys and studies conducted by the Coast Guard including its Organizational Assessment Survey where 67% of respondents
Port Workers in Argentine Grains Hub to Hold Wage Protests
Port workers in Argentina's main grains hub of Rosario will hold flash protests and block access gates over the weeks ahead as part of wage negotiations in which they are demanding a 40 percent pay increase, a union leader said on Thursday. Wage strikes and protests are common in Argentina, which had an inflation rate of about 40 percent last year. The central bank aims to cut inflation by more than half in 2017. "We are going to hold days of protests in front of the gates of different port facilities. We will hold them one or two days a week until the end of the month up and
EBDG Hires Chief Electrical Engineer
extensive use of USCG and class society rules, and all aspects of electrical drawing development with a focus on large, passenger vessels. Ayers brings to EBDG experience in high voltage engineering and control and monitoring systems. He is highly proficient in onelines, load analyses, Arc Flash studies, fault current studies (including DC short circuit), Over Current Protective Device (OCPD) coordination studies, voltage drop calculations, Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (FMEA), Design Verification Test Memos (DVTM) Periodic Safety Test Procedures (PSTPs), ripouts, cable pull lists,
Petrobras Chairman Ferreira to take Leave
levels. In the past Petrobras has imported fuel to sell at a loss, a serious burden on the company. (Reuters: By Stephen Eisenhammer and Rodrigo Viga Gaier, Reuters) Murilo Ferreira graced the cover of Maritime Professional. http://magazines.marinelink.com/Magazines/MaritimeProfessional/201205/flash
Strike Paralyzes Argentine Grains Port for 2nd Day
of embarkation for grains, oilseeds and derivatives. If a wage deal is not reached by Monday evening, Quiroga said CGT members will start an open-ended strike at Midnight. The labor group is negotiating with CIARA-CEC, Argentina's chamber of grains exporting and soy crushing companies. Flash work stoppages are common in Argentina, where workers demand pay increases in line with annual inflation clocked by private economists at 25 to 30 percent. At a busy time of the year for exporters, smack in the middle of Southern Hemisphere soy and corn harvest season, the captains of small
USMRC to Continue LNG Bunkering PIC Course
marine inspectors and representatives from the USCG’s Liquefied Gas Carrier National Center of Expertise and the American Bureau of Shipping. USMRC also is in the process of developing other maritime training and education programs for the industry on subjects relating to the emerging use of low flash point fuels as marine fuel. usmrc.org
Europe, China Economic News Challenges Shipping Demand
; Commenting on the China Manufacturing PMI survey, Hongbin Qu, Chief Economist, China & Co-Head of Asian Economic Research at HSBC said, “The final reading of the HSBC China Manufacturing PMI stabilised at 48.1 in April, up slightly from 48.0 in March, and revised down from an earlier flash reading of 48.3. The latest data implied that domestic demand contracted at a slower pace, but remained sluggish. Meanwhile, both the new export orders and employment sub-indices contracted”. He continued: “Over the past few days, Beijing has introduced more reform measures, which could
