by Stas | Aug 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Natalie Ruffner Seafarers are integral parts of the shipping and maritime industry. Given their importance, one could assume that they are treated as such. Unfortunately, this is not the case. With the start of the pandemic in 2020, many seafarers were stripped of...
by Stas | Aug 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Kevin Policarpo Captain Tejinder Singh is among the 100,000 sailors that are still stuck onboard their ships as a new variant of Covid-19 is spreading around the world. The captain of a bulk carrier from India, Singh notes that being at sea for long periods of time...
by Stas | Jul 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Photo: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company BY STAS MARGARONIS Dan Hutcheson, president of VLSI Research, a long-time analyst of the global semiconductor industry, says recent automotive semiconductor shortages will ease, but the United States must...
by Stas | Jul 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Source: ASCE By Benita Margaronis Think back to the days when you were in high school and college, what was the one thing that you feared seeing at the end of every semester? It was your report card! If your grades were good your parents would let you go to that super...
by Stas | Jul 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Source: ASCE By Kevin Policarpo American infrastructure has been in stagnation for several decades with a few areas being graded at B or C according to the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) 2021 Report Card For America’s Infrastructure[1], which is...
by Stas | Jul 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Stas Margaronis For centuries people believed that a poet named Homer wrote the epic poems the Illiad and the Odyssey, the foundations of literature in Western Civilization. However, in 1923 a young University of California classics student argued, in his master’s...
