Yearly Archives: 2019
Dual Use LNG Shipping: A Game Changer for Carbon Management?
Carbon capture, utilization, and storage have been repeatedly written off as not financially viable.
Transportation costs for such an effort would be between...
Ship With 2000 Cars Including 911 GT2 RS Sinks Off French Coast!!
Grande America sank with a large batch of Audi and Porsche cars sank off the coast of France.
Porsche confirmed that there were Porsche...
Ecochlor BWMS Ramps Up Production With a New Factory
According to a Marine Log article, Maynard, Mass., headquartered Ecochlor has announced that their manufacturing partner, ProFlow, Inc., has opened a new factory in...
BMW 1st Automobile Company To Join Ship Recycling Transparency Initiative
German automaker BMW Group has recently become the first automobile worldwide to join the Ship Recycling Transparency Initiative (SRTI)which was Launched in March 2018...
IMO-EU Under Pressure To Align Ship CO2 Emissions-Measuring Systems
As the global drive to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from ships continue the IMO and the European Union (EU) is under pressure to...
Weekly Bulk Report – Week 11, 2019
The Baltic Briefing has released Bulk carrier maritime activity report for the 10th week of this year. The report formulated on 15th March 2019...
French GTT Boosts Spending for High-Tech LNG Ships!
GTT plans to increase R&D spending by about 25% in 2019 to meet IMO 2020 sulphur cap.
The company also plans to develop new...
Cruise Ship Evacuated After Collision With Cargo Ship!
According to NL Times, on March 20, a cruise ship collided with a cargo ship, loaded with cars, on the Waal River near Nijmegen.
What...
Piracy Threat Remains in Indian Ocean “High Risk Area”
The Round Table of International shipping associations plus the OCIMF, announced that the geographic boundaries of the ‘High-Risk Area’ for piracy in the Indian...
Malaysia’s PFLNG Satu Stops Production Ahead of Relocation
Petronas’ PFLNG Satu, world's first floating LNG production facility at the time of its launch, that exported its first LNG cargo April 1,...