New MR Tanker Design Use Fossil Fuels To Reach IMO 2050 Targets
An MR tanker, designed by Sweden’s FKAB Marine Design, has been granted approval in principle (AiP) by Italian classification society RINA, claimed as the first AiP of a design using currently viable technology and...
UN Reaches Agreement To Unload Yemen’s Oil Tanker ‘Time Bomb’
The UN has co-ordinated a deal in Yemen to unload more than 1 million barrels of crude oil from the rusting FSO Safer tanker and make safe what officials and experts have described as...
Bulker Crew Poisoned During Cargo Ops
Ten people aboard a Turkish-owned bulker sustained poisoning from possible toxic fumes aboard the ship during loading, reports the Maritime Executive quoting the Russian media and investigating authorities at the Russian port of Nevelsk.
Violation...
[Watch] How Ports Manage To Stack Massive Shipping Containers
Shipping containers are so large that they are often used to build swimming pools and even homes. This begs the question: how do ports manage to successfully stack all these massive containers?
They do this through a very...
This Chinese Company Expands Its Robo Taxi Fleet!
Chinese self-driving car developer AutoX has expanded its robo taxi fleet to more than 1,000 vehicles in that country.
AutoX’s AV fleet is among the largest in China, running several commercial autonomous taxi...
Omicron Is Not A Mild Variant, Warns Harvard Epidemiologists
The experts emphasize the importance of stopping considering the new South African variant as slight.
For the experts, what made the new variant not have such an impact on hospitalizations is that a...
Low Vaccine Shelf Life Hurts Rollout For World’s Poorest
Some countries have had to destroy expired doses, including Nigeria which dumped up to 1 million AstraZeneca vaccines in November.
An internal WHO document reviewed by Reuters detailing vaccine stocks in several central...
Hapag-Lloyd Launches A New Service To Link China With Europe
Driven by increased demand, German container shipping major Hapag-Lloyd is launching a new service that will link Southern China with Northern Europe, reports Offshore Energy.
About the new service
Available from 1 April 2022, Hapag-Lloyd will...
Is Russia Still Continuing Its Military Drills?
A Russian attack on Ukraine is "still very much a possibility" and the human cost would be "immense", US President Joe Biden has said, reports BBC.
End of military drills
Mr Biden said Russia had massed...
Updates On The Global Port Congestion
Container shipping analysts around the world have this week been providing updates on the global port congestion.
In total, Linerlytica tallies 10% of the global boxship fleet – or 2.53m teu – is...