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WITH tensions mounting in the Black Sea as relations between Russia and Georgia collapse, security at ports in the region is understandably tight. At Constantza, the Romanian navy has taken extra precautions to protect its warships, with a wall of MSC containers (pictured) erected on the quayside to ensure there are no unwelcome intruders.
View from a bridge
Iceland’s Blue Lagoon is a popular swim spot for cruise passengers. The rocky pool is heated by natural geothermal energy and set in a lunar landscape.
Just one problem — clothes lockers at the lagoon need to be opened electronically, which leads to some lost souls wandering about a concrete warren of changing rooms. Many asked why a very expensive system was chosen instead of old-fashioned lockers with a simple key attached to a wristband or disk.
Back at their ship, however, passengers appreciated the wonders of electronics that, on each cabin TV screen, show the view ahead from the bridge.
Agility by name...
LOGISTICS provider Agility recently trucked 47 pallets of medical supplies to the International Medical Corps’ warehouse in Sadr City, one of Baghdad’s poorest and most dangerous neighbourhoods, which is home to around 3m people. The supplies — which included oxygen saturation monitors, administration regulators, nebulisers, food pumps and paediatric equipment as well as syringes, surgical gloves and wheelchairs — will be distributed to up to 10,000 residents. The unrest in the city has led many primary health care centres to close down and one of the main hospitals, Shaheed Al Sadr, has come under rocket attack, resulting in supply shortages.
Twins on board
“SISTERS are doing it for themselves” is a pop anthem that is providing an increasingly apt slogan for the empire of John Fredriksen.
Mr Fredriksen’s 24-year old twin daughters Kathrine (left) and Cecilie now grace the boards of several of the shipping magnate’s public companies, as the dynastic succession takes shape.
Kathrine, who set the pace earlier this year with her appointment as a director of Frontline, is gravitating to the energy-related companies.
She has not only been re-elected to the board of the multi-billion dollar tanker vehicle but also voted in as a director of Golar LNG, another of Mr Fredriksen’s energy shipping companies, as well as Seadrill, the offshore drilling venture.
Cecilie has just been elected a director of Golden Ocean, her father’s quoted dry bulk shipping company, while she also sits on the boards of the Fredriksen-controlled, Oslo-based collection agency Aktiv Kapital, and the leading seafoods company Marine Harvest.
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