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10 MAY 2021  On Tuesday, salvors hoisted and removed the engine room section of the grounded ro/ro Golden Ray, loading it onto a deck barge for transport to a recycling facility in Louisiana.  The lift marks the culmination of a long, three-month process to saw through the heavily-reinforced hull section using …

9 MAY 2021  A new report on scrubber washwater suggests that shipping now produces more tonnes of the effluent in a year than the tonnes the cargo it carries.  Based on numbers from the pre-COVID era (2019), the team at the International Council for Clean Transportation calculated that scrubber-equipped ships …

7 MAY 2021 Reduced Chinese reliance on fossil fuel imports and rising demand for renewables inputs would have major effects on trading relationships. Diplomacy is not always diplomatic. This fact of international life was on full display during the recent meeting of top US and Chinese diplomats in Alaska. It …

6 MAY 2021  Germany will soon be accepting a shipment of 59 containers of hazardous waste from the Port of Beirut, which is still working to rebuild after the devastating blast at its grain terminal last year. The heavy lift ship Amoenitas, operated by Combi Lift, is at Beirut and …

5 MAY 2021  On Tuesday (4th May), an Egyptian court upheld a previous court order for the seizure of the container ship Ever Given, leaving the vessel stranded in the canal’s Great Bitter Lake until further notice. The Suez Canal Authority obtained the order on April 13, and the court has …

9 MAY 2021 Scientists already know the oceans are rapidly warming and sea levels are rising. But that’s not all. Now, thanks to satellite observations, we have three decades’ worth of data on how the speeds of ocean surface currents are also changing over time. In research published on 23 April in …

8 MAY 2021 Like everything in this pandemic, the knowledge we have about how COVID-19 affects pregnancy has changed since we first learnt about the virus at the start of 2020. Unfortunately, gathering information and research in this area has been slower than many doctors would like, and a new study has now found that …

7 MAY 2021 One hundred companies control 60 percent of the ocean economy. Can they work with policymakers, scientists and civil society to lead the sustainable way? Humanity has depended on the ocean for millennia. But the extent and diversity of today’s ocean use is unprecedented. Many ocean-based industries are …

6 MAY 2021  If you’ve ever been seasick, “stable” may be the last word you associate with the ocean. But as global temperatures rise, the world’s oceans are technically becoming more stable. When scientists talk about ocean stability, they refer to how much the different layers of the sea mix …

5 MAY 2021  The maritime sector seeks to reduce carbon emissions using ammonia, methanol, hydrogen and battery power and even liquefied air as the basis for propulsion. While solar, wind, ocean current and wave power contribute to the production of several forms of carbon-free propulsion energy, advances in lower cost …