20 FEB 2022 Without extreme caution, we may pull high-carbon fuels into the value chain in pursuit of the zero-emissions dream. Countries around the world are adopting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions targets of zero emissions by 2050. The global marine shipping industry is also evaluating whether to increase the current …
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19 FEB 2022 Scientists deliberately infected young, healthy volunteers with SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 – and now, they’ve shared their first results from that experiment. The new study, published Tuesday (Feb. 1) in Springer Nature’s preprint database, In Review, has not yet been peer-reviewed, but it could provide insight into how mild COVID-19 unfolds, from …
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18 FEB 2022 Value chain disruptions are increasingly blamed for inflationary tendencies, although there are multiple other factors that can drive consumer prices up. Since the summer of 2020, continuous challenges caused by tighter capacity of boxes, ships, port infrastructure and hinterland transport have caused far reaching impacts on supply …
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12 FEB 2022 Timed to the opening of the One Ocean Summit being hosted in France this week, environmental activists are staging a series of events to call attention to their demands for an international moratorium on deep-sea mining. Greenpeace is planning a demonstration at the conference in Brest, France …
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10 FEB 2022 The owner of the tanker that collided with the Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad in 2018 has agreed to pay about $27 million in compensation to the Norwegian government for the loss of the warship. The Helge Ingstad collided with the tanker Sola TS off the Sture oil terminal in Norway’s Hjeltefjord on November …
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17 FEB 2022 All of America’s leading mariners’ unions have joined together to oppose the creation of an open-registry flag in the U.S. Virgin Islands, describing it as an “exercise in labor arbitrage designed to generate registry fees.” If created, the USVI flag would be “the first, and only, international US open …
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