The Shipping Forecast is a BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the coasts of the British Isles. It is produced by the Met Office and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The forecasts sent over the Navtex system use a similar format and the same sea areas. The waters around the British Isles are divided into 31 sea areas, also known as weather areas (see map below) There are four broadcasts per day at the following (UK local) times:
0048 – transmitted on FM and LW. Includes weather reports from an extended list of coastal stations at 0052 and an inshore waters forecast at 0055 and concludes with a brief UK weather outlook for the coming day. The broadcast finishes at approximately 0058.
0520 – transmitted on FM and LW. Includes weather reports from coastal stations at 0525, and an inshore waters forecast at 0527.
1201 – normally transmitted on LW only.
1754 – transmitted only on LW on weekdays, as an opt-out from the PM programme, but at weekends transmitted on both FM and LW.
According to BIMCO’s chief shipping analyst, Niels Rasmussen, they forecast that global container volumes will grow between 0% and 1% in 2023, and between 3% and 4% in both 2024 and 2025 ... Our forecast for fleet growth in 2023 has been adjusted downwards as it appears that more ...
Despite significant improvements in forecasting capabilities, weather continues to play a crucial role in ship strandings, as well as causing disruptions in voyage planning and necessitating route diversions ... said Tim Huxley, CEO of Mandarin Shipping and chair of the committee.
The upbeat forecast from Enbridge, which operates the Mainline oil pipeline system that ships the bulk of Canada's crude exports to the U.S., follows peer TC Energy (TRP.TO) estimating higher adjusted core earnings for 2024 on Tuesday ... The company forecast adjusted core ...
Such is the volatility in the market Q4 forecasts are often broad, unfocused affairs, with Maersk, for example, predicting anything from a US$970 million loss to a US$530 million gain ... In ZIM's case, that has meant ordering bigger more efficient ships, but demand is forecast, by most observers, to stay at around half of capacity growth until 2027.
A convergence of factors, ranging from climate impacts on key fruit crops, to weak Chinese demand and geopolitical tensions, have dampened the short-term outlook, with total seaborne reefer cargoes for 2023 forecast to decline -0.5% YoY, according to Drewry’s Reefer Shipping Forecaster report published recently.
DETROIT -- The 1975 sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald not only inspired an iconic ballad by Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot, it also led to the advancement of Great Lakes weather monitoring and forecasting that has helped ships navigate storms ever since.
DETROIT — The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald not only inspired an iconic ballad from Canadian crooner Gordon Lightfoot, it also led to the advancement of Great Lakes weather monitoring and forecasting that has helped ships navigate storms ever since ... Meteorologists had forecast ...
DETROIT — The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald not only inspired an iconic ballad from Canadian crooner Gordon Lightfoot, it also led to the advancement of Great Lakes weather monitoring and forecasting that has helped ships navigate storms ever since ... Meteorologists had forecast ...
26 (Xinhua) -- Thirteen crew members aboard a cargo vessel are missing after the ship sank off the Aegean Sea island of Lesvos on Sunday ...EarlySunday morning, the captain of the cargo ship reported a mechanical failure to the authorities ... The ship was carrying salt from Egypt to Istanbul, Turkey.
Thousands of Aussie travellers excited for a two week cruise around New Zealand have been left gutted after their itinerary was flipped and the ship was rejected by border control ...New Zealand’s strict border control stopped the ship from entering the country’s waters because the hull had not been cleaned beforehand.