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• 07 November 18 IMO 2020: Scrubber Installations Are Booming and There’s A Very Good Reason for That Over the course of the past couple of months, there has been news of mass installations of scrubbers on board entire company fleets, ranging from tankers, to dry bulk carriers and container ships. And... Read more ›
• 03 November 18 First Ship-to-Ship LNG Bunkering at Rotterdam Shell has achieved the Port of Rotterdam‘s first ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operation using the specialized LNG bunker vessel, Cardissa. She refueled the Sovcomflot vessel Gagarin Prospect, the world’s first LNG-powered Aframax tanker, delivered from... Read more ›
• 30 October 18 Denmark’s Minister for Industry, Business and Financial Affairs confirmed as speaker at Copenhagen Shipping Summit Denmark’s Minister for Industry, Business and Financial Affairs confirmed as a speaker. Denmarks new maritime mega event in Copenhagen can now report that Denmark’s Minister for Industry, Business and Financial Affairs, Rasmus Jarlov is now... Read more ›
• 30 October 18 Setting the scene for LNG as marine fuel in East Med A Poseidon Med II event at the University of Nicosia on 18th October 2018.  The achievements and milestones of the European co-funded project Poseidon Med II (PMII), was the focus of the discussion on October... Read more ›
• 27 October 18 Carnival Corporation: Stop destroying the environment your customers pay to see! A company that runs cruises through Arctic waters is coming under increased pressure to stop using a cheap-but-dirty fuel that is destroying the environment its passengers pay to see. Carnival Corporation’s customers and the... Read more ›
• 25 October 18 MSC Boosts Controlled Atmosphere Reefer Fleet MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company, the second largest container shipping company in the world, is set to expand its reefer fleet after placing a record order for 5,000 refrigerated containers. The specialised containers will be... Read more ›
• 24 October 18 ‘JUST-IN-TIME’ Sailing Reduces CO2 Footprint If sea-going vessels were better informed about the availability of berths and adapted their speed accordingly, substantial savings could be made in terms of fuel and CO2 emissions.     This conclusion is based... Read more ›
• 23 October 18 Sea Traffic Management (STM): an effective tool for decarbonisation and safety of navigation In recent years, the transport in line with communication, liberalization, and international standardization shaped the four pillars of globalisation. Maritime transport known as the backbone of the global trade as more than 90 percent... Read more ›
• 21 October 18 Tackling maritime emissions – IMO rolls out ship and port toolkits To reduce emissions across the maritime sector, national authorities need to first quantify those emissions and then develop a strategy to reduce them. A new set of toolkits to assess and address emissions from... Read more ›
• 17 October 18 Responsible cruising and its economic impacts The US federal budgetary funds for construction and maintenance of a port are often linked to factors such as transportation cost saving and total tonnage, but seldom to the number of passengers served. In light of... Read more ›