06 JUNE 2023 Growing demand for cleaner energy sources means offshore wind farms are being built all over the world. More than 5,000 turbines must be installed each year until 2050 to limit global warming to 1.5 ?. Without more investment in anchor technology to streamline installation, the potential of floating wind …
Read More »CANADA’S OLDEST LAKER TOWED TO PORT WITH UNCERTAIN FUTURE AFTER A FIRE
05 JUNE 2023 Canada’s oldest vessel operating on the Great Lakes may have had her career come to an unceremonious end Tuesday night, May 23, after a fire broke out in the engine room of the 80-year-old Cuyahoga. The vessel was towed to port today and so far, her owners, Lower …
Read More »PLETHORA OF DEFICIENCIES, GETS BULKER 90-DAY BAN FROM AUSTRALIA
02 JUN 2023 The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) banned the Panama-flagged bulk carrier for 90 days reporting that it had found a “plethora of detainable deficiencies” after a recent inspection that also resulted in a detention. According to the safety organization the vessel was identified to be a “high-risk …
Read More »UN-BACKED SALVAGE TEAM ARRIVES AT FSO SAFER OFF YEMEN
01 JUN 2023 The team for the UN-backed salvage effort of the decaying offshore oil storage tanker FSO Safer (406,000 dwt) arrived in Yemen today, May 30, to begin the operation that plans to transfer the more than one million barrels of crude oil from the decaying tanker. Boskalis and the team …
Read More »NIGERIA RELEASES “OIL THEFT” VLCC HEROIC IDUN AFTER PLEA BARGAIN
31 MAY 2023 The Norwegian-owned VLCC Heroic Idun, which had been detained in Nigeria for 10 months over allegations of oil theft, has been released after its owner fulfilled the conditions of a plea bargain agreement. The Nigerian Navy announced the official release and handing over of the VLCC. Last August, Heroic Idun was …
Read More »MONTREAL PROTOCOL TURNED OUT TO HAVE AN AMAZING WORLD-CHANGING SIDE EFFECT
04 JUN 2023 A decades-old global environmental pact has averted huge amounts of sea ice loss in the Arctic, new research shows. Banning ozone-depleting gases under the historic 1987 Montreal Protocol has delayed the first, feared ice-free Arctic summer by as much as 15 years, the study found – once again demonstrating …
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