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24 MAR 2021 Tugs and diggers have so far failed to dislodge a massive container ship stuck in the Suez Canal on Wednesday, increasing the chances of prolonged delays in what is arguably the world’s most important waterway. Work to re-float the ship was suspended until Thursday (25th March) morning …

28 MAR 2021 The grim pall of the COVID-19 pandemic ensures that 2020 will go down as an infamous year in the history of human disease. But this dark chapter held some surprises we can be thankful for, too. In a new study, researchers found that a predicted 2020 outbreak of a mysterious paralyzing …

27 MAR 2021 The International Maritime Rescue Federation (IMRF) has released the results of the first survey to examine the representation of women across the maritime search and rescue (SAR) sector. The #WomenInSAR survey, which was supported by Trinity House, attracted more than 1,600 participants from women and men in …

26 MAR 2021  Despite new treaty requirements, U.S. customs data suggests that American exporters and the ocean carriers that transport their cargo are still shipping plastic waste to recycling plants in developing countries. These operations are often associated with uncontrolled dumping, allowing “recycled” plastic to escape into waterways and wash …

25 MAR 2021  Expressing its serious concern about the maritime security situation in the Gulf of Guinea, the Danish government announced that it plans to deploy a frigate to the region in the fall of 2021. The decision to deploy a naval vessel to the region comes after the Danish …

24 MAR 2021 By Alex Longley and Alaric Nightingale (Bloomberg) — The market for moving oil across the world’s oceans is currently so bad that owners of the industry’s biggest supertankers are actually subsidizing the delivery of cargoes. Strange to think, then, that shares of two of the market’s biggest pureplay …

23 MAR 2021 Fishing trawlers that drag big nets along the ocean floor potentially release more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as the world’s commercial aviation industry. The first study to estimate the real carbon footprint of bottom trawling globally has found this type of fishing releases roughly 1.47 billion tonnes …

25 MAR 2021 Shipping faces a trillion-dollar challenge: How do you transition away from a high-carbon status quo to an uncertain, decarbonized future? It’s a tall order and will take a long list of technological and operational changes to pull it off – along with a tremendous amount of money. …

24 MAR 2021 Pi (π) is a constant describing the ratio between a circle’s circumference and its diameter. It is an irrational number usually summarized to two decimal places as 3.14. The Greek letter for P was chosen by the 18th century Welsh mathematics teacher William Jones, most likely to stand for …

23 MAR 2021 In 2015, research led by Jenna Jambeck, a professor at the University of Georgia, identified China as the world’s largest source of plastic waste reaching the ocean – accounting for nearly one-third of the total in 2010. Many Chinese researchers thought that figure too high but had …