20 JUN 2023 The energy ties between Russia and India have been booming for the last year, and container traffic between the two countries is also forecast to grow. With some of the Russian shipping companies facing sanctions from the West, the Indian market presents a new growth opportunity. One …
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19 JUN 2023 On Sunday, four activists from Greenpeace Nordic briefly delayed a tanker carrying wastewater from the Norwegian oil industry to Denmark. The activists used divers and magnets to attach a small sailboat to the hull of the tanker Bothnia, which was transporting about 9,000 tonnes of contaminated wastewater from …
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18 JUN 2023 On Sunday, the Philippine Coast Guard helped extinguish a fire aboard a large passenger vessel off the coast of Bohol. That morning, the PCG received word that the ropax ferry Esperanza Star had caught fire off Panglao, Bohol while under way for Tagbilaran. The vessel had about 120 people …
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17 JUN 2023 Bangladesh, home of the world’s top-paying buyers of end-of-life tonnage, has approved ratification of the Hong Kong Convention on shipbreaking practices (HKC). There are several formal steps further to go, but the decision effectively guarantees that the nation will join the convention and bring it one step …
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16 JUN 2023 The European Commission has unveiled a set of five legislative proposals aimed at modernizing maritime safety rules and preventing pollution from ships. With maritime transport accounting for 75% of the EU’s external trade, the proposals aim to ensure the safety of shipping while protecting the environment. The proposals focus …
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15 JUN 2023 What is IMO 2023? In 2011, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) established rules for new-build vessels to reduce the amount of CO2 generated from shipping called the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI). In 2023, new IMO regulations created the Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) to assess …
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