22 AUG 2020 The benefits of wearing face masks to help slow the spread of COVID-19 are now well understood, but scientists are still searching for better materials to use – and a filter ‘paper’ made up of titanium oxide nanowires is showing a lot of promise. The new material is so good at …
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21 AUG 2020 The chief of Lebanon’s customs agency has been arrested in connection with the deadly ammonium nitrate explosion at the Port of Beirut earlier this month. Badri Daher, director general of the Lebanese Customs Administration, was questioned by judicial authorities in an extended session on Monday. He was …
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20 AUG 2020 The Government of Mauritius today arrested the captain of the bulk carrier Wakashio while it also moved ahead with the plans to tow the forward section of the wrecked ship out to sea and sink it. All of this was happening as increasing questions emerged over why the vessel …
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19 AUG 2020 Greenland’s ice sheet may have hit a tipping point that sets it on an irreversible path to completely disappearing. Snowfall that normally replenishes Greenland’s glaciers each year can no longer keep up with the pace of ice melt, according to researchers at Ohio State University. That means …
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18 AUG 2020 On Saturday, the US Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization to a saliva-based test funded by the NBA and National Basketball Players Association to be available for public use, the agency announced. The test was developed by researchers at Yale and jointly funded by the …
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Liquid air energy storage and regeneration plant 18 AUG 2020 In the area of renewable energy vessel propulsion, the scale of maritime vessel technology allows for application of grid-scale energy storage technologies that would otherwise be impractical for road or rail vehicle propulsion. Initiatives are underway in the UK to …
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17 AUG 2020 The situation at the grounded bulk carrier Wakashio started to deteriorate overnight on Friday, August 14, and on Saturday, August 15 the end came when the 203,000 DWT Panama flagged bulk carrier broke apart. The drama had begun three weeks earlier when the ship sailing from China to Brazil …
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16 AUG 2020 The Singaporean oil and shipping magnate Lim Oon Kuin – better known as OK Lim – has been charged with “abetment of forgery for the purpose of cheating” in connection with an allegedly fraudulent trade financing transaction. According to prosecutors, OK Lim instructed a contracts executive at …
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15 AUG 2020 In one of the more unusual groundig incidents, a Vietnamese-flagged cargo ship went aground in the Philippines today (13th Aug). The Philippine Coast Guard responded to the scene of the accident and reported that their investigators were told, “According to Captain Nguyen Hoai, skipper of MV Globe 6, …
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14 AUG 2020 The installation of scrubbers and the economics of using this technology was one of the hottest topics in the shipping industry in the lead up to the January 1, 2020 introduction of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) global sulfur regulations. The containership industry as of mid-year became …
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