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14 MAY 2022  Historically, the Arabian Peninsula has played a pivotal role in maritime trade development. It now acts as a bridge that connects South Asia’s manufacturing hubs to consumers in Africa and Europe. It provides much of the fuel, and since the start of the oil boom in the …

  12 MAY 2022  Shipping’s long-term trend towards higher safety and fewer losses continued in 2021, according to marine insurer Allianz, but several high-profile incidents show that cargo fires are a “priority concern” for the industry – particularly for car carriers. Over the course of the past year, two vessels were lost …

11 MAY 2022  The Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN) has launched a one-of-a-kind online platform that shows the frequency with which corruption is reported at individual ports. The Global Port Integrity Platform (GPIP) is based on MACN’s catalogue of incident data, including more than 50,000 incident reports collected since 2011. It …

10 MAY 2022 Some 252 million years ago the world was going through a tumultuous period of rapid global warming. To understand what caused it, scientists have looked to one particular event in which a volcanic eruption in what is now Siberia spewed huge volumes of greenhouse gas into the …

09 MAY 2022 The European Union is set to soften its sanctions package on Russian oil exports after a weekend of wrangling, though it aims to keep a key shipping provision that will hinder Moscow’s ability to export its crude. The bloc will drop a proposed ban on EU-owned vessels …

08 MAY 2022 Climeon’s latest waste heat recovery solution, HeatPower 300 Marine, received a positive reception when it was introduced to the industry at Seatrade Cruise Global in April. The low-temp waste heat recovery system (WHR) is designed by marine engineers for application in the maritime industry and heralds a new era …

05 MAY 2022    On the evening of April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up at the Macondo well site, 45 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana. The explosion resulted in the deaths of 11 workers and, within two days, the loss of the rig. The resulting spill …

04 MAY 2022 The Dunning-Kruger effect is a purported bias in human thinking that leads us to misjudge our abilities in contrast to our actual skill level. It is named after American social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, who since the late 1990s have conducted a series of investigations into our ability to self-assess our own performance at …

03 MAY 2022 Germany container shipping company Hapag-Lloyd has announced plans to equip its entire container fleet with real-time tracking devices as it looks to become a “first-mover” in the use of the technology. Hapag-Lloyd first introduced real-time monitoring of its approximately 100,000-unit reefer container fleet in 2019. With the …

02 MAY 2022 As the war in Ukraine drags on, the maritime industry will continue to feel mounting pressures, not least of which is the exploitation of the environment by cyber threat actors. Russia knows how critical the maritime sector is to both its own survival and the effectiveness of …