26 AUG 2024 The EUNAVFOR operation Aspides issued an update on the burning oil tanker Sounion disputing rumors on social media of oil leaks, but repeated its warning of an “imminent environmental hazard.” There are no reports of any actions to possibly avert the potential disaster while the authorities warned …
Read More »TWO RUSSIAN SEAFARERS KILLED IN CONFINED SPACE ACCIDENT
25 AUG 2024 On Friday, two seafarers lost their lives in a confined-space accident aboard a freighter at the port of Bandirma, Turkey. The Russian freighter Navis 2 arrived in Bandirma on August 21 with a cargo of five thousand tonnes of animal feed, and on Friday, she moved to …
Read More »AI DOESN’T ACTUALLY POSE AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO HUMANS, STUDY FINDS
25 AUG 2024 Science fiction is riddled with artificial intelligence going rogue and turning on their human creators. HAL-9000. The Matrix. Skynet. GLaDOS. Cylons. Humanity, it seems, has a deep fear of the rebellion of the machine. With the rise of ever more sophisticated large language models (LLMs), such as …
Read More »NOSE CAN REVEAL SERIOUS HIDDEN HEALTH ISSUES
24 AUG 2024 Thanks to a quirk known as unconscious selective attention, your brain has learned to ignore your nose. A prominent feature that’s positioned closely to the eyes, the schnoz could get in the way of our vision – but the nervous system cleverly filters it out. You can …
Read More »SOUNION TANKER ABLAZE CAUSING POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER
24 AUG 2024 The Houthis militants released video late on Friday showing explosions aboard the laden Greek tanker Sounion setting the stage for what experts believe will be one of the world’s worst environmental disasters. The vessel is fully laden with approximately 150,000 tonnes (more than 900,000 barrels) of crude …
Read More »FIRST ROTOR SAILS RETROFITTED TO MOL CAPESIZE BULKER OPERATING FOR VALE
23 AUG 2024 The bulker segment continues to be at the forefront of the deployment of wind-assisted propulsion with Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and Brazilian mining giant Vale reporting the first retrofit of rotor sails to a capesize bulker. It adds wind-assisted propulsion to another category of ships in the segment …
Read More »CMA CGM VESSEL ON MV LOSSES 99 CONTAINERS DURING STORM OFF SOUTH AFRICA
22 AUG 2024 CMA CGM’s brand new containership has lost up to 99 boxes overboard in a storm off South Africa (Hudong-Zhonghua) For the second time in approximately a month, one of CMA CGM’s large containerships, the newly inaugurated CMA CMG Belem (13,000 TEU) has lost boxes overboard in storms …
Read More »DALI COMPLETES OFFLOADING CONTAINERS AS SALVAGE OPERATION CONTINUES
21 AUG 2024 Nearly five months after the fatal allision of the containership Dali with Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, offloading of the vessel has been completed in Norfolk, Virginia. TV station WTKR in Norfolk caught pictures of the vessel in recent days with its decks cleared of containers. The …
Read More »HIGH-TECH SAILING SHIP STARTS MAIDEN VOYAGE WITH 1,000 TONNES OF CARGO
20 AUG 2024 Anemos, a one-of-a-kind sail cargo ship operated by French carrier TOWT, has departed on her maiden transatlantic voyage from Le Havre to New York with 1,000 tonnes of cargo. As of this weekend, the vessel was making good time with favorable winds, the line said. Compared to …
Read More »STUDY FINDS HUMANS AGE FASTER AT 2 SHARP PEAKS – HERE’S WHEN TO EXPECT THEM
20 AUG 2024 The progress of a human being through life might be thought of as a mostly gradual succession of changes from the ovum to the grave. But if you wake up one morning, look in the mirror, and wonder when you suddenly grew so much older, you may …
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