24 JAN 2020 The price of low sulphur fuel oil has dropped steeply in recent weeks at the bunkering hub of Singapore in a sign that the bunker market is stabilizing following the implementation of IMO 2020 sulphur cap, according to BIMCO. Prices of low sulphur fuel rose in December …
Read More »NORWEGIAN AUTONOMOUS SHIP PROJECT SECURES MAJOR FUNDING
23 JAN 2020 The European Union has provided more than 20 million euros to a pioneering project in Norway to advance autonomous ship technology. The funding, one of the largest grants of its kind ever given in Norway, will help the project known as AUTOSHIP which seeks to demonstrate the …
Read More »IMO: SMOOTH TRANSITION INTO SULFUR CAP REGULATIONS
22 JAN 2020 The IMO says information from various sources has indicated a relatively smooth transition to the 0.5 percent sulfur cap for bunker fuel. Prices for compliant fuels, very-low sulfur fuel oil (VLSFO) and marine gas oil (MGO), rose quickly initially but now appear to be stabilizing. As of …
Read More »MASTER FINED FOR DELAYED REPORTING OF MAIN ENGINE FAILURE
MT Asphalt Spirit. 21 JAN 2020 The captain of a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker has been convicted and fined $3,000 AUD in Australia after waiting several hours to report that his ship had suffered a main engine failure and was adrift off the coast of Queensland, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority …
Read More »LATEST UN CLIMATE TALKS ARE A WRAP, AND YOU SHOULD BE REALLY DISAPPOINTED
20 JAN 2020 Global climate talks lurched to an end in Madrid on Sunday with finger-pointing, accusations of failure and fresh doubts about the world’s collective resolve to slow the warming of the planet – at a moment when scientists say time is running out for people to avert steadily …
Read More »OCEAN IS WARMING AT A RATE OF 5 ATOM BOMBS PER SECOND, SCIENTISTS WARN
19 JAN 2020 After analyzing data from the 1950s through 2019, an international team of scientists determined that the average temperature of the world’s oceans in 2019 was 0.075 degrees Celsius (0.135 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the 1981–2010 average. That might not seem like a significant amount of warming, but …
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