The cruise ship Carnival Vista floats aboard the semisubmersible heavy lift ship Boka Vanguard, July 2019. The Vanguard served as a temporary substitute for a drydock while work on the Vista was completed. 03 JAN 2021 As 2020 draws to a close and the 2021s approach, it is a good …
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SUPER FUEL? CAN HYDROGEN FUEL LIVE UP TO ITS HYPE?
02 JAN 2021 Pick a color – any color? Blue, green, brown or gray. Those are the colors assigned to the various forms of hydrogen depending on how it’s produced. Hydrogen has suddenly become the Superman of renewable energy. Rather than saving Metropolis, it’s needed to save the world from …
Read More »THE TOP TEN EDITORIALS OF 2020
01 JAN 2021 2020 was a year for the record books. The industry dealt with a global pandemic, a crew change crisis, a record-setting hurricane season, an oil market downturn, a complete halt on cruising, and (on the upside) a highly profitable moment for ocean carriers. Our editorial contributors shared …
Read More »THE IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON SHIPPING
31 DEC 2020 The Covid-19 pandemic still rages unabated in April 2020, affecting lives, businesses, individuals and industries in ways that will change the world forever. The International Labor Organization predicts that as many as 25 million jobs worldwide could be wiped out by a worldwide recession brought about by …
Read More »WORLD’S LARGEST ICEBERG BREAKS APART MENACING SOUTHERN OCEAN
27 DEC 2020 Britain’s Royal Air Force released new images of the world’s largest iceberg reporting significant changes confirmed by the British Forces South Atlantic Islands (BFSAI) during its routine patrols of the region. Using an RAF Airbus 400M the crew was able to investigate and photograph changes to the …
Read More »MERCHANT SHIP HIT BY NAVAL MINE IN SOUTHERN RED SEA
26 DEC 2020 A merchant vessel has been hit by a sea mine in the southern Red Sea, Saudi state-owned outlet Al-Ekhbariya reported on Friday. The outlet attributed the report to the Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi rebel forces in Yemen, and asserted that the mine was deployed by Houthi militias. …
Read More »GROSS DROPLET TEST SHOWS MASKS ARE HIGHLY EFFECTIVE AT LIMITING YOUR FLYING SPIT
01 JAN 2021 Getting coughed on has never been a pleasant experience, but 2020 has made it a whole new level of nope. Even with vaccines being rolled out, our main lines of defence against COVID-19 are still physical, with distancing from each other and wearing a mask being chief amongst them. …
Read More »NEW CORONAVIRUS MUTATION, WILL IT AFFECT THE VACCINE? HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
31 DEC 2020 The emergence of a new variant of coronavirus has sparked renewed interest in the part of the virus known as the spike protein. The new variant carries several peculiar changes to the spike protein when compared to other closely related variants – and that’s one of the reasons why …
Read More »INFLUENCING SHIPPING INDUSTRY’S CLIMATE PERFORMANCE BY SCORING LENDERS
30 DEC 2020 In a first-of-its-kind climate report, 15 of the major lenders financing the shipping industry disclosed the climate alignment score of their ship finance portfolios. Released in The Poseidon Principles Annual Disclosure Report 2020, the climate assessment offers banks insight into their lending decisions, compares performance with competing …
Read More »$80M IN ABANDONED COCAINE WASHES UP IN MARSHALL ISLANDS
29 DEC 2020 Police in the Marshall Islands have confiscated over 1,400 pounds of cocaine that came ashore in an abandoned boat on a remote atoll. With a value of $80 million, it is the largest drug bust in the island nation’s history. Last week, a small fiberglass boat washed …
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