10 FEB 2022 The owner of the tanker that collided with the Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad in 2018 has agreed to pay about $27 million in compensation to the Norwegian government for the loss of the warship. The Helge Ingstad collided with the tanker Sola TS off the Sture oil terminal in Norway’s Hjeltefjord on November …
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17 FEB 2022 All of America’s leading mariners’ unions have joined together to oppose the creation of an open-registry flag in the U.S. Virgin Islands, describing it as an “exercise in labor arbitrage designed to generate registry fees.” If created, the USVI flag would be “the first, and only, international US open …
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16 FEB 2022 Plastic contains thousands of chemicals. Until now, we haven’t known if these leach into the environment to any great extent. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of chemicals from plastics can leach into water under natural conditions. This water may contain substances that we know are toxic under laboratory conditions, …
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15 FEB 2022 Our eyes are continuously bombarded by an enormous amount of visual information – millions of shapes, colors, and ever-changing motion all around us. For the brain, this is no easy feat. On the one hand, the visual world alters continuously because of changes in light, viewpoint, and …
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14 FEB 2022 Thanks to a combination of sensing the Earth’s magnetic field through vision and an in-built compass that allows them to orient themselves according to magnetic intensity, migratory birds don’t have much trouble finding their way. Those biological gadgets, known as magnetoreception, allow birds to not only know which direction to head in …
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06 FEB 2022 A Danish-registered product tanker clipped the breakwater while arriving in Kaohsiung, Taiwan earlier this week. The vessel took a severe list before authorities cleared it to dock and begin an emergency unloading. The 74,999 dwt Torm Emilie was entering the port of Kaohsiung when it apparently misjudged the harbor …
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05 FEB 2022 Port facilities across northern Europe are all reporting what appears to be a spreading cyberattack targeting the region’s oil operations. After initial reports of disruptions in Germany, reports are now also coming in from the Netherlands and Belgium saying that it is impacting the loading and unloading …
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13 FEB 2022 Next Tuesday at the National Press Club in Washington, former US Deputy Secretary of State and the first Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte will be providing opening remarks, and Albert Bryan, Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, will announce a new US Flag open ship registry, in what some maritime …
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12 FEB 2022 Japanese shipping giant Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) plans to enhance the safety of its fleet with a navigational risk monitoring system capable of predicting the danger of grounding and alerting shore side teams. A day after successfully concluding the world’s first sea trial of unmanned ship operation …
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11 FEB 2022 Antibiotic resistance is often seen as a ‘future problem’, but newly published data have revealed it’s affecting far, far more lives than you might imagine. In fact, the new estimates show that in 2019, there were 4.95 million deaths associated with bacterial antimicrobial resistance, making it the …
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