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The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) has closed the port to large ships because of a strike announced by the Verdi union over wages, it said on Wednesday."Due to the massive restrictions to be expected from the announced warning strikes, the administration…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/hamburg-port-closed-large-ships-due-union-503837The Solomon Islands has awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to a Chinese state company to upgrade an international port in Honiara in a project funded by the Asian Development Bank, an official of the island nation said on Wednesday.The United States and its allies…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/china-firm-wins-solomon-islands-port-503838
https://www.marinelink.com/news/china-firm-wins-solomon-islands-port-503838A new consortium comprising UK-based mining company Anglo American, Tata Steel, CMB, VUKA Marine, Freeport Saldanha, and ENGIE plans […]
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https://www.offshore-energy.biz/maritime-mining-and-energy-majors-to-create-a-green-corridor-for-iron-ore/China’s first ship powered by a 500 KW hydrogen fuel cell has been put into operation by China Three Gorges Corporation. The service ship, Three Gorges hydrogen ship No.1, uses homegrown hydrogen fuel cells and a lithium battery system and will be used for transportation, patrol and emergency services in the Three Gorges reservoir area. …
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https://splash247.com/chinas-first-hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered-ship-starts-operations/A consortium of global shipping organisations and the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) have received approval in principle from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), the US ship certification agency, to use a carbon capture system onboard an oil tanker. The project’s seven-member consortium includes the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD) in Singapore, …
https://splash247.com/landmark-carbon-capture-project-onboard-a-stena-bulk-tanker-moves-ahead/
https://splash247.com/landmark-carbon-capture-project-onboard-a-stena-bulk-tanker-moves-ahead/Five shipping bodies have joined forces to create common action on important safety issues, with the carriage of lithium-ion batteries high up on the agenda. The five organisations – Cargo Incident Notification System (CINS), Confidential Human Factors Incident Reporting Programme (CHIRP), Container Owners Association (COA), International Cargo Handling Coordination Association (ICHCA), and Ship Message Design …
Shipping is braced for a reputation hammering in the event of a major dark fleet “oil on feathers” incident. Authorities around the world are trying to keep tabs on the fast-growing shadow fleet of tankers hauling Iranian, Venezuelan, and Russian oil in often substandard, elderly tonnage. The latest near disaster occurred on Sunday when the …
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https://splash247.com/shipping-braces-for-reputation-hammering-as-dark-fleet-accidents-proliferate/A new player in the chemical tanker arena will be listed on the Norwegian over-the-counter market following an initial public offering backed by UK-based Tufton Investment Management. The Oslo-based Stainless Tankers has raised around $67m to buy a fleet of seven 20,000 dwt stainless steel chemical tankers. The ships will be managed by Tufton, which …
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https://splash247.com/new-tufton-backed-shipowner-stainless-tankers-set-to-list-in-oslo/Norwegian seismic player PGS has secured a contract with an undisclosed major for a 3D exploration acquisition. The 2013-built Ramform Titan is set to mobilise for the survey in late June and complete the survey in August. No further details have been disclosed about the project. Earlier this month, the Oslo-listed firm secured work for …
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https://splash247.com/pgs-awarded-3d-survey-contract/DeepOcean has strengthened its fleet with a two-year time charter agreement for the multipurpose support vessel (MPSV). The Norwegian offshore energy contractor said the 2013-built ship chartered in from Fosnavaag-based shipowner Olympic Subsea, will be utilised for subsea inspection, maintenance, and repair (IMR), light construction and recycling services in the offshore renewables and oil and …
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