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More about general average liability for cargo owners – potentially daunting…
April 19, 2024

Today I’ll revisit a concept I talked about on Monday’s show.. General Average – an ancient maritime principle that governs how losses in a ship disaster are shared between stakeholders. I was talking

Port of Woodland to add marine terminal on the Columbia River
April 18, 2024

Continuing our discussion about changes in ports and cargo service on the Columbia, today well talk about the decision by the Port of Woodland to buiild a marine terminal and being serving cargo ship

Could Astoria take over container service here on the Columbia? Unlikely.
April 17, 2024

Today well talk about a listener comment regarding the Port of Portlands decision to suspend container service this fall out of its Terminal 6 facilities. A person suggested that containers be shipp

Port of Portland announces end of containership service to Terminal 6
April 16, 2024

The big maritime news locally this week is the announcement by the Port of Portland that they will end container ship service to the Ports Terminal 6 as of October 1. The decision will mean the Colum

The expensive law of “general average” and how it applies to cargo ship disasters
April 15, 2024

Theres an ancient tenet of maritime law that is cropping up in reports about the catastrophe in Baltimore harbor with the containership Dali. Its called general average, and it has to do with who

The close of our series on USCG rescue swimmers
April 12, 2024

This week weve heard a series from the Ship Report archives on USCG rescue swimmers. Today ends that series.

More about Coast Guard rescue swimmers
April 11, 2024

Were hearing a weeklong series about USCG rescue swimmers this week. Today is part 4.

Rescue Swimmer series continued
April 10, 2024

Were hearing excerpts this week from an interview I did with a USCG rescue swimmer based at Air Station Astoria.

More on rescue swimmers
April 09, 2024

Well delve more into the lives ofUSCG rescue swimmers today with this look into the Ship Report achives, as I continue to recover from this plague of a cold that has me in its grip.

The work of USCG Rescue Swimmers
April 08, 2024

Today, well take a look back in the Ship Report archives at a great interview I did years ago with a local USCG rescue swimmer. In the meantime, Ill work on getting over this bad cold that has put m