One does not wish to provoke any sort of angry response from readers, but is it not time that the definition of piracy was updated?
The Electric Thames project, a collaboration between UK Power Networks, LCP Delta, and Marine Zero, is assessing the viability of using electric vessels to feed stored electricity back into London’s energy network.
Offshore is one of the industries with the biggest risk profiles in the world. When bad things happen in offshore, people die, often there are explosions and sinkings, fires and oil spills, and the environment can be badly polluted, killing seabirds, fish, dolphins and coral, and inflicting billions of dollars of losses on ..
People of my age were brought up to believe that the design of a ship was a sort of necessary compromise between the overall dimensions, speed and consumption, cargo capacity, seakeeping abilities, and, as a secondary afterthought (seafarers believed), habitability.
The recent bridge collapse incident in Baltimore in the US state of Maryland was a tragedy that I believe could and should have been avoided.
In an industry is awash with cash and record profits, it is tragic to see five people confirmed dead in an accident on a Perenco platform offshore Gabon, and one other worker still missing, presumed also killed, as per the most recent update.
Baird Maritime once more highlights the ever important fishing and aquaculture sector by reviewing newbuild vessels entering service around the world.
Zhoushan Putuo Changhong Shipyard in China has completed conversion works on a locally-owned chemical tanker to enable it to operate as a bunkering vessel that will serve ships running on methanol. People of my age were brought up to believe that the design of a ship was a sort of necessary compromise between the overall dimensions, speed and consumption, cargo capacity, seakeeping abilities, and, as a secondary afterthought (seafarers believed), habitability. A new fire safety study by global survival technology company Survitec has revealed that existing firefighting methods used to extinguish machinery space spray and pool fires on conventionally-fuelled vessels are inadequate when dealing with methanol-based fires.
VESSEL REFIT | Haigang Zhiyuan – Chemical tanker re-enters service as China’s first methanol bunkering ship
COLUMN | Anything goes in 2024 ship design [Grey Power]
Study confirms new firefighting guidance needed for methanol-fuelled vessels
Zhoushan Putuo Changhong Shipyard in China has completed conversion works on a locally-owned chemical tanker to enable it to operate as a bunkering vessel that will serve ships running on methanol. People of my age were brought up to believe that the design of a ship was a sort of necessary compromise between the overall dimensions, speed and consumption, cargo capacity, seakeeping abilities, and, as a secondary afterthought (seafarers believed), habitability. A new fire safety study by global survival technology company Survitec has revealed that existing firefighting methods used to extinguish machinery space spray and pool fires on conventionally-fuelled vessels are inadequate when dealing with methanol-based fires.
VESSEL REFIT | Haigang Zhiyuan – Chemical tanker re-enters service as China’s first methanol bunkering ship
COLUMN | Anything goes in 2024 ship design [Grey Power]
Study confirms new firefighting guidance needed for methanol-fuelled vessels
Japanese shipping company Imoto Lines has unveiled the first image of a coastal feeder containership that will be fitted with a hybrid electric propulsion system.
Dutch marine projects company Van Oord has deployed two of its vessels to dredge the harbour at the Prinses Amaliahaven container terminal located on Maasvlakte in Rotterdam.
Terminal Portuario Jinzhao Peru, a subsidiary of Chinese construction company Jinzhao, has been awarded a contract for the design, financing, construction, operation, and maintenance of a new large port in San Juan de Marcona in Nazca province in southern Peru.
Authorities in Guangdong province in southern China have reported that four people have gone missing after the vessel they were serving on struck a bridge in the city of Foshan on Monday, April 22.
Finnish shipping company Meriaura has placed an order for two new cargo vessels in a series to be built by Netherlands-based shipyard Royal Bodewes.
Ship leasing business Seapath, a company under New York-based conglomerate the Libra Group, has placed an order for six deck barges in a series to be built by St Johns Ship Building of Palatka, Florida.
The Australian government’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) have initiated a bilateral program designed to assist the Australian and Singaporean maritime and port sectors in significantly reducing their carbon emissions.
The Port of Gdansk in Poland has awarded local company Porr a contract for the reconstruction of two quays.
WORK BOAT WORLD: Philip Malone has joined UK-based maritime nuclear energy company Core Power as its new Vice President of Engineering.
Zhoushan Putuo Changhong Shipyard in China has completed conversion works on a locally-owned chemical tanker to enable it to operate as a bunkering vessel that will serve ships running on methanol.
Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), via its Mitsubishi Shipbuilding business unit, has handed over a new liquefied carbon dioxide (LCO2) carrier to Kobe-based shipowner Sanya Kisen Kaisha.
Dutch shipping company the Vertom Group has taken delivery of two new multi-purpose cargo vessels built by compatriot shipyard Thecla Bodewes.
Princess Cruises christened its newest cruise ship, the 4,300-guest Sun Princess, in a ceremony at the Port of Barcelona in Spain on Tuesday, April 23.
The Alpine Lakes unit of Australian volunteer search and rescue (SAR) organisation Marine Rescue NSW has taken delivery of a new aluminium rescue boat built by local company Gray’s Marine and Welding to a design by CNC Marine.
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