United Nations Archives - Baird Maritime

March 24, 2023

OPINION | The UN High Seas Treaty: maintaining biodiversity?

Written by Ken Sumanik on March 24, 2023. Posted in Fishing Boat World Features, Fishing Boat World Vessel Reviews, Regulation & Enforcement, Seabed Mining, Work Boat World Features.

The December 7-19, 2022, UN Biodiversity Conference of the Parties (COP 15) in Montreal, Quebec, led to an agreement to protect 30 per cent of land and oceans by 2030 and ..

February 20, 2023

COLUMN | Pointless? BP, Equinor and Net Zero; Vestas and a huge loss; Capricorn and NewMed split; Isabel dos Santos enjoys luxurious impunity; Yemen’s rial rises, even as Safer corrodes! [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on February 20, 2023. Posted in Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Maintenance, Offshore Processing & Storage, Offshore Wind, Offshore World, Salvage Operations, Work Boat World Features.

Last month, Scottish singer Lewis Capaldi topped the UK charts with his excellent ballad Pointless. “Everything is pointless without you,” the Brit-award winning arti ..

September 6, 2022

OPINION | The CO2 emissions issue: are we failing the oceans?

Written by Eugene Lapointe on September 6, 2022. Posted in Fishing Boat World Features, Regulation & Enforcement, Work Boat World Features.

We live in a new maritime environment. Once maritime cooperation could be equated with putting down pirates. But Captain John Silver no longer sails the Spanish Main; Hen ..

March 2, 2023

Royal Navy seizes skiff carrying anti-tank missiles in Gulf of Oman

Written by Baird Maritime on March 2, 2023. Posted in Ships (Naval).

The Royal Navy has seized anti-tank weapons and ballistic missile components being smuggled in international waters in the Gulf of Oman after a high-speed chase on a susp ..

January 16, 2023

COLUMN | Floating LNG projects in Israel, Malaysia and Congo get green light; Shell faces more Prelude woes; Australia seeks tighter offshore regulation to protect rock art and “sea country”; Canada’s First Nations take LNG equity [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on January 16, 2023. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Processing & Storage, Offshore World, Work Boat World Features.

Last week, we looked at Europe’s rush to build floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs) to import liquified natural gas (LNG) into Europe (here). Of course, Eu ..

March 23, 2022

International Organisation for Migration donates RIB to Philippine Coast Guard

Written by Baird Maritime on March 23, 2022. Posted in Non-Naval (Maritime Security), RIBs and RHIBs.

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) of the United Nations formally handed over a new rigid inflatable boat (RIB) to the Philippine Coast Guard in a ceremon ..

February 27, 2023

COLUMN | Heading for a showdown in the South China Sea? [Naval Gazing]

Written by Trevor Hollingsbee on February 27, 2023. Posted in Non-Naval (Maritime Security), Ships (Naval), Work Boat World Features.

Tensions around the Spratly and Paracel Islands in the South China Sea (SCS) have been on a rising curve since China’s de facto annexation of Mischief Reef in 1995. The ..

September 8, 2022

Canada to contribute CA$2.5 million to UN-led salvage effort on FSO off Yemen

Written by Baird Maritime on September 8, 2022. Posted in Offshore Processing & Storage, Salvage Operations.

Harjit S. Sajjan, Minister of International Development and Minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada, has confirmed that the Canadian go ..

February 4, 2022

OPINION | Navigating the limits in the South China Sea

Written by Donald R Rothwell on February 4, 2022. Posted in Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Maritime Security, Naval, Work Boat World Features.

Barely noticed, but nevertheless of some international legal consequence, is the latest effort by the United States to cast doubt upon the legality of Chinese maritime cl ..