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Insurance union publishes recommendations on safe carriage of electric vehicles
There are growing concerns within the shipping community, including marine underwriters, about fires breaking out on car carriers and Ro-Ro vessels...
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One killed after fire ignites on car carrier off Dutch coast
One person was killed while several others suffered varying degrees of injury after a vehicle carrier caught fire in the North Sea off the Netherlands’...
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VESSEL REVIEW | Auto Aspire – Norwegian-owned car carrier fitted with LNG battery hybrid propulsion
Norwegian shipowner United European Car Carriers (UECC) has taken delivery of a new pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) from Jiangnan Shipyard, a company...
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COLUMN | Learning more about electric cargo fire risks [Grey Power]
Regulation, as the lucky passengers of Titanic might have reflected as they sat in their freezing lifeboats, takes some time to catch up with reality....
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REMINISCENCES | Pushing boundaries is pushing your luck
I was reading some remarks written recently by a very senior pilot who clearly has boarded an awful lot of ships in his long career. He is increasingly...
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Japanese car carrier to trial device that can collect microplastics while underway
Japanese companies Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and Miura have confirmed that development work has begun on a new centrifugal-type microplastic collection...
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UECC takes delivery of second hybrid car carrier in series
United European Car Carriers (UECC) took delivery of a new pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) from China’s Jiangnan Shipyard on Monday, June 13. Auto...
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MOL orders four more locally-built LNG-fueled car carriers
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has entered into agreements with Japanese shipbuilders Nihon Shipyard and Shin Kurushima Dockyard four 7,000CEU car carriers...
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Norway’s Gram Car Carriers forms new PCTC business
Norwegian shipping company Gram Car Carriers (GCC) has formed a new business unit for the purpose of ordering four 7,000CEU dual-fuel, pure car and...
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