"Russia earlier ordered the #AzovSea closed to the movement of commercial vessels until further notice, but kept Russian ports in the #BlackSea open for navigation."
4/Turkish-Owned Ship Hit By Bomb Off Ukrainian Port City – Turkish Authority
“The Marshall Islands-flagged Turkish-owned #YasaJupiter ship was struck by a bomb off the coast of Odessa...it is en route to Romanian waters, has no casualties and is safe,”
5/Ukrainian Port City of #Mariupol Comes Under Fire
"Local authorities said 26 people were being treated for wounds in hospital after an eastern district of Mariupol was shelled & “an attempt by Russian troops to break through” into the city was thwarted." gcaptain.com/ukrainian-port…
6/War In Ukraine Will Magnify The Global Trade Crisis
11/Carriers urged to avoid the Black Sea as Turkish bulker gets hit off #Odessa
"A high degree of uncertainty regarding the freedom of navigation throughout the wider #BlackSea...No attempt should be made to access the Sea of #Azov.”
12/Russian Navy Captures Ukraine's Outpost on Snake Island
"The Russian Navy warships Moskva and Vasily Bykov bombarded the island with deck guns before sending Russian soldiers ashore to take control of the facility, according to Ukrainian media."
13/Chinese Trade is Unlikely to Offset Sanctions on Russia
"Energy is by far Russia’s biggest export to Europe. It delivers 40% of Europe’s gas supplies & about 27 percent of its oil.-.70% of Russia’s oil exports go to Europe, compared with 18% to China." maritime-executive.com/editorials/chi…
14/U.S. Navy Left The Black Sea Unprotected Allowing Russia To Invade Ukraine
Bigger question is why the Biden Administration did not allow the military to be a deterrent to Putin?
What difference could a few NATO warships in Black Sea have on Putin?
1/Your moment of #sealift comes courtsey of the @USMC.
Latest word is USNS GySgt Fred W. Stockham of Maritime Prepositioning Squadron 2 based in Diego Garcia, which has just completed an extensive shipyard availablity, along with its cargo, has been told not to backload.
2/The ship arrived at the Marine Corps Depot at Blount Island on Feb 14 and was scheduled to commence backload as part of the routine maintenance cycle. @MSCSealift & the crew were told that is was cancelled. The ship will be shifted into a reduced operating status.
3/ The ship is one of three LMSRs assigned to MPSRON 2. Sisler is currently up in Norway conducting an exercise and USNS Seay is in the shipyard in Boston scheduled to backload next.
There are questions about some of the other ships.
1/I presented my paper "World War II Expeditionary Logisitics and Support in the Pacific" at the 2022 Virtual Expeditionary Warfare Conference.
The focus was on early WWII Pacific naval logistics, specifically oil and repair from Dec 41 to Feb 43...
2/Most histories - @navy1944 & #IanToll - focus on the exploits of the fast carrier task forces and the six @USNavy carriers: Enterprise, Lexington, Saratoga, Yorktown, Hornet & Wasp.
Yet, behind the scenes, these fast carriers required an extensive logistics network...
3/Built for commercial service under Merchant Marine Act of 1936, these tankers included national defense features: high speed, twin screws & provisions for guns/comms.
Six of them served as fast oilers in the Pacific: Neosho, Cimarron, Platte, Kaskaskia, Guadalupe & Sabine...
2/Ocean shipping containers do not typically venture far from the harbors. What most people see on the roads and highways are not intermodal containers, but 40 or 53ft trailers. The material from overseas is offloaded at sites close to the port and repacked for delivery.
3/When you hear about a truck shortage, it is not one of trucks & drivers. For a truck to load, it has to bring a chassis to load a container on. Usually, it has an empty to return. As the terminals are full, there is little room to store them, making moving boxes slow.