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DNV Says Shipping is Moving from “Ambition to Action” on Decarbonization
Momentum is building in the shipping industry with a growing number of initiatives to address decarbonization, concludes DNV. Th...
Read More >>ICJ Climate Ruling May Help Fight Against Shell's S. Africa Drilling Plans
[By Angela van der Berg] The International Court of Justice’s landmark advisory opinion on climate change&...
Read More >>MOL Develops Innovative Designs for Wind-Assisted LNG Carriers
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines continues to work to advance wind-assisted propulsion, building on the concepts after deploying its first ri...
Read More >>Land-Based Tests Underway for Seawing Automated Kite System
Japan’s Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (“K” LINE) reports its subsidiary Oceanic wing completed the first phase of land...
Read More >>Study: Collapse of Key Atlantic Ocean Current May Begin As Early As 2060
In the past few years, there has been a growing body of research looking into the potential weakening of the Atlantic me...
Read More >>Italian Coast Guard Detains Boxship for Not Ensuring it Meets Emissions Reg
Guardia Costeria is reporting that it has detained a smaller containership after it was unable to determine that the vessel was...
Read More >>Ghana Adopts a New Fisheries Law to Curb IUU Fishing
In the past decade, the scourge of IUU (illegal, unregulated and unreported) fishing in West Africa has grown into a bil...
Read More >>UK Funds Project to Combine Carbon and Emission Capture in Southampton
The UK is supporting the next step in emission capture systems that can be deployed in ports as a cost-effective means of reduci...
Read More >>Report: Methanol and Ammonia Fuel Are Quickly Moving from Theory to Reality
The age of methanol and ammonia-powered vessels is quickly emerging, finds a new report from the Global Maritime Forum’s G...
Read More >>The Untold Plight Of North Korean Seafood Workers in China
In February 2023, Donggang Jinhui Foodstuff, a seafood-processing company in China, threw a party. It had been a success...
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