16 DEC 2023 China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) has unveiled plans for what could potentially become the world’s largest nuclear-powered containership. Plans for the 24,000-TEU-class ship was unveiled Tuesday at Marintec China expo in Shanghai. The vessel will utilize a fourth-generation Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) to generate electricity. “The ultra-large …
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15 DEC 2023 Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods on Saturday rejected the International Energy Agency’s recent claim that using wide-scale carbon capture to fight climate change was an implausible “illusion,” saying the same could be said about electric vehicles and solar energy. “There is no solution set out there today …
Read More »14 DEC 2023 The US and two of its closest parters are set to test a new way to track Chinese submarines using artificial intelligence. Crews flying Pacific missions on the US Navy’s top maritime surveillance and attack aircraft will be using AI algorithms to rapidly process sonar data gathered by underwater …
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13 DEC 2023 The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has called for new VTS safety measures after the anchor-drag incident that caused an oil spill off the coast of California in October 2021. The spill released around 588 barrels of crude oil into San Pedro Bay and caused about $160 …
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12 DEC 2023 Shipping receives nowhere near the media coverage given to aviation, yet the sector also accounts for around three percent of global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. Its footprint must be tackled rapidly if international climate targets are to be met. Solutions to decarbonize shipping exist, most notably in the form of …
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11 DEC 2023 We’ve got some unfortunate news for you. Are you sitting down? Perhaps you shouldn’t be ! A new cross-sectional meta-study by an international team of researchers has ranked the movements and positioning we commonly engage in each and every day in order of benefit to your heart. …
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10 DEC 2023 War risk insurance premiums edged up for Red Sea voyages after three vessels were attacked in the area on Sunday and fears grow over worsening perils for commercial shipping, maritime and insurance sources said on Monday. The incidents are the latest in a series of attacks in Middle …
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08 DEC 2023 The Suez Canal Authority is reporting that it was able to recover after an Ocean Network Express (ONE) containership hit a bridge disrupting today’s northbound convoy. At least six vessels had been caught despite the accident happening in a section of two-way traffic and the authority’s efforts …
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10 DEC 2023 Finland will demand its investigators be allowed on board the NewNew Polar Bear, a Hong Kong-flagged vessel whose anchor ripped up a subsea gas pipeline near Finnish waters in October, President Sauli Niinisto said. It remains unclear whether the ship dragged its anchor for hundreds of kilometers “intentionally or …
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09 DEC 2023 Bureau Veritas (BV) has launched its first classification Rules for hydrogen-fuelled ships (NR678) to support the safe development of hydrogen propulsion in the maritime sector. The newly introduced rules outline the technical requirements for the secure bunkering, storage, preparation, distribution, and utilization of hydrogen as a fuel …
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