12 MAR 2021 The royal navy has tested cutting-edge software to map the seabed close to shore in hours – not days or weeks. Survey vessel HMS MAGPIE was able to chart the waters around Plymouth purely using the same kind of regular radar system installed on shipping the world over, along …
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11 MAR 2021 The volume of goods transported by container shipping each year has quadrupled since 2000, and about 600,000 submarine cables have been laid on the seafloor in that time, which now carry almost all international telecommunications. The energy generated by offshore wind farms has increased 400-fold in the …
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10 mar 2021 Container shortages severely disrupted trade in the second half of 2020, just as consumer demand began catching up to pre-pandemic levels. Indian shippers, just like their European, Australian, and US counterparts, began to feel the heat of the crisis as ocean freight rates skyrocketed to exorbitant levels. …
Read More »09 MAR 2021 We all desperately want this global pandemic to end, but that won’t happen for many more years if the wealthiest nations don’t share their vaccines with the rest of the world, argue health experts. By mid-February 2021, 191 million vaccination shots had been administered, and more than three quarters …
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08 MAR 2021 Recent posts on social media have claimed that the newly approved COVID-19 vaccines cause infertility. The biological mechanism by which the vaccines work, on top of data from animal and human studies, strongly suggest that this is not true. When the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020, few could anticipate …
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07 MAR 2021 Saudi Arabia plans to ship gas to South Korea where it will be used to make hydrogen, and the carbon dioxide produced in the process will be transported straight back to the kingdom. Hyundai OilBank Co. will take liquefied petroleum gas cargoes from Saudi Aramco which it …
Read More »06 MAR 2021 You utter “automation,” and everyone is immediately transposed to a sci-fi future where robots rule the world, cars fly and crewless ships sail the world’s oceans. Even within the marine industry, we often forget that ‘unmanned vessel’ isn’t the only arrow in the automation quiver. In fact, …
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05 MAR 2021 Tidewater, one of the largest operators of offshore vessels servicing the oil and gas industry, is predicting that the worst of the market downturn is over and expects to see a recovery in the second half of 2021. While they believe that “supply and demand will be …
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04 MAR 2021 Shipyards are known as a land-based facility that ships steer to for docking and repair. This study represents a basic conceptual study for a new principal of developing a floating shipyard – changing the phenomena of a fixed site shipyard into a self-propelled mobile platform. This floating …
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03 MAR 2021 India’s government has announced a long term $82 billion plan to invest in the nation’s seaports. Speaking at the Maritime India Summit on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for massive public and private commitments to improve infrastructure for maritime trade. “As many as 574 projects at …
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