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Live Animal Export: Can farmers find an alternative in only 40 weeks?

March 25th, 20191 Livestock carriers have the oldest age profile in deepsea shipping. The sulphur cap should ensure many of them find their way to beaches in South Asia soon, writes Dr Lynn Simpson. Another day of ovine gridlock on a sheep ship. No indicators, no brake lights, no problem; nowhere to go. Images like this will soon be historical. Why?...

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Live Animal Export: Industrial insecurity

February 13th, 20190 Regular livestock contributor Dr Lynn Simpson makes her 2019 debut warning there’s still plenty to fix in this trade. Where to start? A quick update of current live export issues in Australia will help. April 2018, video footage from five voyages on the Awassi Express was shown on ‘60 Minutes’. The footage, filmed by a...

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Live Animal Export: Review dismembers current Australian regulations

November 7th, 20181 Dr Lynn Simpson gives her verdict on the Moss review looking into Australia's Live Animal Export industry. Several months late the government has finally released the Moss review. Akin to waiting for a deadbeat kid to give their parents a damning, school report card. Philip Moss was tasked with investigating the true culture of...

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Live Animal Export: Australian export licence permanently cancelled

August 22nd, 20184 Dr Lynn Simpson reports on a remarkable day as the livestock trades edge ever closer to oblivion. After decades of failed regulation, Australia’s largest exporter of sheep has had its licence permanently cancelled by the Australian Department of Agriculture. Today, it was announced that Emanuel Exports can no longer export live...

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Live Animal Export: The global trade is dying

August 16th, 20186 Dr Lynn Simpson reports on the pullback from live animal exports seen across the world in recent months. Too many animals have died at sea during ‘live’ export; no sane person could dispute that. Now the global trade is on a terminal trajectory. We live in a more enlightened time. As such we are witnessing the well overdue...

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Live Animal Export: As one DAWR opens, another Daw closes

August 7th, 20182 Dr Lynn Simpson looks at what has happened to the Australian livestock export trades since April’s dramatic 60 Minutes exposé forced politicians to act. What’s happening with the live export of sheep from Australia, I keep getting asked. In short - not much, by that I mean nothing, no live export of sheep by sea. However,...

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Live Animal Export: Seafarer ethics, morals, bravery and honour

May 29th, 20184 Splash's livestock expert Dr Lynn Simpson praises the brave choices made by one Pakistani seafarer who may have changed the livestock trades forever. Fazal Ullah is a man that any decent person on the planet should be proud of. He has my profound admiration. As a new seafarer he joined a ship to be a navigational officer. Little...

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Live Animal Export: Ignorant, defiant or stupid?

May 18th, 20188 Splash livestock expert Dr Lynn Simpson is disappointed with changes made to the animal export industry in Australia this week. She calls for an end to the trade. Sheep die every day at sea. They shouldn’t be there. There is a clear trend that trying to deliver sheep by sea on ships, let alone through hot, humid weather is a...

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Live Animal Export: The dead sheep handicap

April 18th, 20182 Dr Lynn Simpson reimagines the Australian livestock trade scene post-60 Minutes as a horse race. Who will make it past the final furlong? Regulatory failure, lies and melting to death in a bed of hot sewerage whilst snuggled up to your dead friend’s body. Could be the promo to a fictional horror film? Unfortunately its...

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Live Animal Export: Who really cares?

April 5th, 20186 Our livestock expert Dr Lynn Simpson returns today, with some serious questions for Australia’s Department of Agriculture. I mean, seriously. It’s only a few million live animals and maybe a thousand or so potentially exploited crew who suffer each year. Most of us haven’t had the ‘pleasure’ (deep sarcasm there folks) of...

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Blue Star Line files for bankruptcy

Odfjell sells majority stake in Jiangyin terminal to Yangzijiang Shipbuilding

MSC forks out $50m to get cocaine-bust ship trading again

Banchero Costa: 51 years as a broker

MSC forks out $50m to get cocaine-bust ship trading again

Ridgebury Tankers splashes $82m on four suezmaxes from Koenig Cie

US and Canada crack down on Asian gypsy moths entering port

Danish fleet surpasses America’s into fifth spot

Bihar International orders up to eight tankers at New Times Shipbuilding

Japan mulls changing its constitution in order to protect oil supplies through Hormuz

Iranian VLCC at centre of diplomatic storm with the UK set to depart Gibraltar

Tanker rift between the UK and Iran escalates

Keppel secures newbuild dredger and FPSO modification contracts

KMTC boxship struck by chemical blaze sent for demo

Japan mulls changing its constitution in order to protect oil supplies through Hormuz

Japanese VLCC contract win highlights India’s weak tanker fleet

Odfjell sells majority stake in Jiangyin terminal to Yangzijiang Shipbuilding

Cargill takes action in China as African swine fever shows no sign of abating

Bihar International orders up to eight tankers at New Times Shipbuilding

Northern Offshore and SinoGeo create jackup rig joint venture