Labor Dispute Causes Serious Delays at Port of Ngqura
Port of Ngqura (file image) _x000D_ By The Maritime Executive 2019-07-11 21:41:58 _x000D_ _x000D_ A labor dispute at the Port of Ngqura, South Africa is creating serious difficulties for some of the country’s largest exporters. Port workers allege that they have not been paid promised bonuses by state-owned ports operator Transnet, and they have launched […]
National Waterfront Strike Underway in Australia
file photo _x000D_ By The Maritime Executive 2019-07-08 20:53:20 _x000D_ _x000D_ Australian wharfies are striking for 48 hours at DP World’s Brisbane, Sydney and Fremantle container terminals, and for 96 hours in Melbourne. _x000D_ _x000D_ The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), part of the Construction Forestry Maritime Mining and Energy Union (CFMMEU), says the strike […]
First Hybrid Cruise Ship Sails at Last
The Roald Amundsen under way on battery power (Hurtigruten) _x000D_ By The Maritime Executive 2019-07-04 20:57:13 _x000D_ _x000D_ Hurtigruten’s diesel hybrid powered cruise ship Roald Amundsen is the first vessel of her kind, and this week she became the first cruise ship in the world to sail (for a period) on battery electric power alone. […]
New LNG Containment System Passes Gas Trials
Saga Dawn _x000D_ By The Maritime Executive 2019-07-01 17:47:54 _x000D_ _x000D_ The Saga Dawn will be the first vessel to operate a completely new LNG containment system in decades. _x000D_ _x000D_ LNT Marine has successfully completed gas trials of its novel LNTA-BOX® containment system aboard the Saga Dawn, a mid-size LNG carrier due for delivery […]
IMO Warns Shipping Industry of Fake Piracy Reports
Suspected Somali pirates in an undated file image _x000D_ By The Maritime Executive 2019-06-24 21:17:12 _x000D_ _x000D_ The International Maritime Organization warns that alerts being issued from the email account of the Regional Maritime Information Sharing Centre (REMISC) in Sana’a, Yemen (infoex@remisc.org) are not legitimate. _x000D_ _x000D_ Given the current situation in Yemen, which is in the midst […]
Competing for Data
File image _x000D_ By Paul Benecki 2019-06-19 16:22:00 _x000D_ _x000D_ As connectivity at sea becomes more common, opportunities for new applications and business models are proliferating. Nor-Shipping 2019 showcased an increasingly competitive market for ship data services, with half a dozen vendors offering comprehensive platforms for transmission, storage and analysis. Many of these firms are from adjacent spaces, […]
Paris MoU Publishes New Performance Lists
file photo courtesy of Diamantino Rosa _x000D_ By MarEx 2019-06-17 05:31:02 _x000D_ _x000D_ At its 52nd meeting last month, the Paris MoU Committee approved the 2018 inspection results and adopted new performance lists for flags and Recognized Organizations (ROs). These lists will take effect from 1 July 2019. _x000D_ _x000D_ The “White, Grey and Black […]
Global Energy Demand Increase Attributed to Weather
_x000D_ By MarEx 2019-06-11 23:53:49 _x000D_ BP has released its 68th annual Statistical Review of World Energy, highlighting the growing divergence between demands for action on climate change and the actual pace of progress on […]
Report: Cruise Ships Emitted More SOx than Europe's Cars in 2017
Barcelona _x000D_ By MarEx 2019-06-10 01:45:13 _x000D_ _x000D_ A new analysis by sustainable transport group Transport & Environment asserts that Carnival Corporation ships emitted nearly 10 times more SOx around European coasts than did all 260 million European cars in 2017. _x000D_ _x000D_ Royal Caribbean is estimated to have emitted four times more than the […]
ΙΕΑ Commentary: Frontier electric technologies in industry
By Adam Baylin-Stern, Energy analyst; Asbjørn Hegelund, Energy analyst; and Andreas Schröder, Energy modeller. _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Cement, and iron and steel, which require high temperature heat, are particularly hard to electrify (Photograph: Shutterstock) _x000D_ _x000D_ In WEO 2018 we introduced the Future is Electric Scenario to test what could happen to electricity […]
