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19 APR 2019 Classification society ABS announced Thursday it is teaming up with members of the Cargo Incident Notification System (CINS)  to develop actionable recommendations to help mitigate risks posed from the stowage of dangerous goods on containerships. Established in 2011, CINS is a shipping line initiative meant to increase safety in …

18 APR 2019 Out of all the major offshore oil and gas regions, the U.S. Gulf of Mexico has the largest number of laid-up OSVs, according to a new analysis by VesselsValue. “By observing the figures, we can see the market with the highest layup is the US Gulf.  Even …

17 APR 2019 The Australian government is providing A$329 million ($236 million) for research into Australia’s blue economy. The University of Tasmania will lead the largest-ever Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), the Launceston-based Blue Economy CRC, bringing together expertise in seafood, renewable energy and offshore engineering. The 10-year collaboration will involve …

16 APR 2019 Doctors are increasingly embracing the idea that the food we eat may be as good as any disease-fighting, immunity-boosting drug. This isn’t a new strategy. The cancer researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee recently told Business Insider that “for centuries, diet was the only kind of medicine.” Lately, Mukherjee and other doctors …

15 APR 2019 Less than a week ago, the world was blown away by the first-ever direct image of a black hole‘s event horizon. But this now world-famous object doesn’t really have an official name, although a few options are now vying for legitimacy. The galaxy that contains this supermassive black hole is …

14 APR 2019 Ice is a complex beast. While you and I only ever come into contact with one kind of it, scientists actually know of around 20 different molecular varieties – some so esoteric and rare, they may only exist inside computer simulations, or buried within distant planets. But just because water …

11 april 2019 Human Rights at Sea legal researcher Sayedeh Hajar Hejazi spoke at the 2019 Empowering Women in the Maritime Community conference at the World Maritime University in Malmo, Sweden, April 4-5: When humanity harnesses the force of and truly empowers women, it has an exponentially positive effect on …

10 april 2019 In the coming months, a large drone will check emissions from ships in Danish waters to make sure they comply with sulfur emissions limits.  The drone is being provided by the European Maritime Safety Agency and is fitted with a so-called “sniffer” capable of measuring sulfur emissions. …

9 APR 2019 A pair of mathematicians from Australia and France have devised a new way to multiply numbers together, while solving an algorithmic puzzle that has perplexed some of the greatest math minds for almost half a century. For most of us, the way we multiply relatively small numbers …

05 APRIL 2019 Simon Bennett, Deputy Secretary General of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has warned that avoiding overcapacity and unsustainably low freight rates is still a major challenge 10 years after the massive downturn of 2008. “In that time shipping companies needed to show restraint when ordering new …