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 by the Sustainable Shipping Initiative, reports the Economic Times.
SRTI...
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 make more stringent compliance rules and a detailed structure of...
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 highlights the situation in the bulk carrier market including trading...
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 variants of their flagship technologies, such as NO96 Flex, and...
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 happened?
The collision with the cargo ship pushed the cruise ship...
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 Ocean have been reduced, reports Marine Insight.
How was ‘High-Risk Area’...
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, 2017 stops production.
Its second floating LNG facility under construction...
Weekly Maritime Security Report – Week 10, 2019
Protection Vessel International has released the Maritime Security Report for Week 10 of 2019. The report formulated on 12th March 2019 highlights the various security breaches that have happened over the past week.
Iran: Navy...
ABB Helps Ferry Achieve Exceptional Fuel Savings with Optimization Project
ABB's chiller optimization solution for passenger ships achieves over 18% energy savings on La Suprema.
ABB and GNV have completed a first-of-its-kind retrofit of a technology that optimizes the performance of chillers for HVAC...
France Cleans Up Cargo Ship Oil Spill in The Atlantic
French authorities began a clean-up operation on Grande America after it sank off the French Atlantic Coast.
The 214-metre-long vessel sank in the west of the French town of La Rochelle, carrying 2,200 tonnes of...