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Damen Coordinating European Innovation Project LeanShips

Jun 15, 2015

The European Innovation Project LeanShips – Low Energy And Near To Zero Emissions Ships – will demonstrate the effectiveness and reliability of energy saving and emission reduction technologies at real scale. LeanShips is one of the first…

Rolls-Royce Wins Order for Live Fish Carrier

Jun 15, 2015

Rolls-Royce has signed an order for a Live Fish Carrier. This will be the third vessel developed by Rolls-Royce for the Norwegian ship owner Sølvtrans AS, one of the world’s largest transporter of live fish. The Rolls-Royce designed vessel…

Bulgaria Orders Green Energy Producers to Cut Output by 60%

Jun 14, 2015

Bulgaria's power grid operator ordered all renewable energy producers on Sunday to reduce their output by 60 percent in an attempt to balance production and consumption in the Balkan country, the state-owned company said.The grid operator…

China Reaffirms 2030 Climate Commitments

Jun 14, 2015

China's Premier Li Keqiang reaffirmed the government's commitment to achieve peak carbon emissions by 'around 2030',  the State Council said in a statement issued late on Friday.The statement contained no new commitments ahead of crucial…

New Edition of Danish List of Lights

Jun 14, 2015

A new edition of the Danish List of Lights has been published that provides the readers with a complete overview of the lights around Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland. The 2015 edition replaces the previous List of Lights from 2013…

AMSA GM Elected Chairman of IMO's Safety Committee

Jun 14, 2015

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority’s (AMSA) Navigation Safety and International Relations General Manager Brad Groves has been elected as Chairman of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Maritime Safety Committee for 2016…

LISW15 Lines Up Speakers

Jun 13, 2015

London International Shipping Week 2015 (LISW15) is pleased to announce the line up, so far, of high level government and industry speakers for the official LISW15 Conference being held at the Grosvenor House Hotel on London’s Park Lane, on Thursday 10th September…

IACS's New Rules to Enhance Safety of Large Boxships

Jun 13, 2015

The International Association of Classifications Societies (IACS) has adopted new Unified Requirements that will further improve the safety of Large Container Ships by enhancing consistency between pre-existing Class Society provisions in this area…

Peel Ports, JNPT in Historic Partnership

Jun 13, 2015

At a formal event presided by ShriNitinGadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport,Highways and Shipping in the presence of ShriAnil Desai, Member of RajyaSabhainMumbai, India’s No.1 Container Terminal Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust,  have today…

Norway’s DSD Shipping in Second US Indictment

Jun 13, 2015

Norwegian firm Det Stavangerske Dampskibsselskab AS (DSD Shipping), and four of its employees, are now under three-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Lafayette, LA, all relating to alleged environmental crimes and their cover ups…

Shipping Company Sentenced for Dumping Oil

Jun 12, 2015

Dauelsberg GmbH & Co. KG, a German company, was sentenced in U.S. federal court June 3 to pay a total of $750,000 in fines and community service payments for violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships by intentionally discharging 1,780…

Paris Climate Summit - A Missed Opportunity

Jun 12, 2015

As the annual Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) closed today in the Bulgarian capital, the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC) called the meeting’s adoption of a resolution on climate change a “missed opportunity” to…

SDSU Scientists Track Global Warming In Ice Patterns

Jun 12, 2015

SDSU scientists analyzed a half-mile slice of  Western Antarctica ice core to help determine that climate change begins in the Arctic and moves southward, according to chemistry professor Jihong Cole-Dai of the SDSU Ice Core and Environmental Chemistry Lab…

Shippers Prosecuted for Garbage Dumping

Jun 11, 2015

Two shipping companies and their masters have been prosecuted by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) for two separate marine pollution incidents within the Great Barrier Reef. Tokyo based Perses Maritima Ltd and the master of…

USS Rushmore Aids 65 People Near Indonesia

Jun 11, 2015

USS Rushmore (LSD 47) rendered assistance to 65 people on makeshift bamboo rafts in the waters between the Indonesian islands of Kalimantan and Sulawesi June 10. Shipboard lookouts spotted the distressed persons waving orange and white flags…

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