Photo: Jeanne Socrates In September 2019, 77-year-old Jeanne Socrates became the oldest person to sail around the world nonstop alone. Her journey began on October 3, 2018, and ended on September 7, 2019. (Previously, the record was held by Minoru Saito, who was 71 when he completed a nonstop circumnavigation[…]
The widespread effects of COVID-19 have obviously had a major impact on global trade patterns. With so much of today’s containership capacity currently sitting idle all around the world, the existing global economy has to be adjusted accordingly. Yesterday’s panel presentation was entitled ‘Containerships don’t lie: Global Forecast session’ and[…]
Unsurprisingly, the rapid spread of COVID-19 has had a major impact on global shipping markets. As the first country to have the infection, there was an initial halt in demand for goods from China. That, combined with various international lockdown measures has had a complete domino effect on everything from[…]
While MarineTraffic offers information and positioning of vessels, Flightradar24, allows you to track planes, get flight status and airport details in real-time. Essentially, what MarineTraffic does in the water, Flightradar24 does for the skies. In this latest video, CEO of MarineTraffic, Demitris Memos chatted with Mikael Robertsson, Co-founder of Flightradar24[…]
Recently Georgios Hatzimanolis from MarineTraffic sat down with oil analyst Samir Madani from TankerTankers.com for a virtual discussion. Along with chatting about the current state of affairs, Samir also explains his affinity for specific MarineTraffic features – such as the filter options and Mobile App. It’s been about six years[…]