18 MAR 2020 One of the easiest to use and most cost-effective ballast water treatment systems has been awarded Type Approval by the U.S. Coast Guard. The system, from Danish company Bawat, is the only treatment system available to shipowners that relies on heat pasteurization to kill off potentially dangerous …
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17 MAR 2020 China’s Belt and Road initiative (BRI) continues to defy simple explanations. Initially used as a means to promote and frame the country’s key foreign policy initiatives, it has now morphed into somewhat of an umbrella term for all sorts of Chinese overseas activities. Is this development evidence …
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16 MAR 2020 International transfers of major arms during the five-year period 2015–19 increased by 5.5 percent compared with 2010–14, according to new data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The largest exporters of arms during the past five years were the U.S., Russia, France, Germany and China, …
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15 mar 2020 The ReCAAP ISC has released its February report noting there has been an increase in incidents in India. 10 incidents of armed robbery against ships were reported in Asia in February. Four of these incidents were reported in India, and one further incident in India occurred in …
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15 MAR 2020 Biofouling is, or should be seen as, public enemy number one when it comes to impacting on marine ecosystems and handicapping vessel performance worldwide. However, given that cleaning practices can be as invidious as the fouling itself, and no silver bullet solution exists, the industry faces a …
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14 MAR 2020 People who recover after being infected with the novel coronavirus can still be left with substantially weakened lung capacity, with some left gasping for air when walking quickly, doctors in Hong Kong have found. The Hong Kong Hospital Authority made the findings after studying the first wave of patients …
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14 MAR 2020 The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released a Marine Accident Brief about the March 10, 2019 accident involving the towing vessel Rivers Wilson, which was pushing six loaded barges, when it contacted the Norfolk Southern railway bridge near Jackson, Alabama. The NTSB determined that the probable …
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13 MAR 2020 If you have a baby, you may be worried about them catching the coronavirus, particularly after media reports of an Australian infant diagnosed with it. The good news is, the evidence so far is babies almost never get seriously ill from the coronavirus. And even if infected, they may have no symptoms. …
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13 MAR 2020 IBM and marine research organization Promare have announced that a new artificial intelligence captain (AI Captain) will enable the Mayflower autonomous ship to self-navigate across the Atlantic later this year. With the three hulls of the trimaran Mayflower currently reaching the final phase of construction in Gdansk, Poland, a prototype of …
Read More »12 MAR 2020 The race is on to identify an effective vaccine for the COVID-19 virus. Once discovered, the next challenge will be manufacturing and distributing it around the world. My research group has developed a novel method to stabilize live viruses and other biological medicines in a rapidly dissolving film that …
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