Of the 204 ships broken in the first quarter of 2021, 155 ships were sold to the beaches of South Asia, notorious for poor work safety and environmental practices, the latest report from NGO Shipbreaking Platform shows. According to the report, Greek ship owners sold the most ships to South Asian ya
7% of the EU’s shipping fuels need to be green by 2030 for the sector to decarbonise by mid-century, a new study released by environmental NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) shows. The study analyses technical, operational and fuel options that could help cut EU shipping emissions in line with the EU
Oil and gas company Lundin Energy has sold the world’s first-ever certified carbon neutrally produced oil to Saras S.p.A from its Edvard Grieg field offshore Norway.
The Biden administration has committed to working with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to adopt a goal of achieving zero emissions from international shipping by 2050. The White House said it would aim to adopt ambitious measures that will place the sector on a pathway to achieve this
Seven flag states and classification societies have united to launch the Maritime Technologies Forum (MTF) which will seek to bridge the gap between technology knowledge and regulatory process.
The Panama Canal has launched its process of decarbonizing its operations, targeting to become carbon neutral by 2030. The waterway is seen as a solid way for shipping companies to cut their environmental footprint being a shorter route for ships. In 2020, the canal authority said it had contributed
U.S. supermajor ExxonMobil has announced its vision for a massive $100 billion carbon capture and storage (CCS) project which it believes will be critical to meeting Paris Agreement emission-reducing goals.
Nigeria’s president has restored four oilfield licenses to Addax Petroleum, a company controlled by China’s Sinopec, overruling a previous revocation from the country’s petroleum regulator.
Maritime classification society and technical services provider Lloyd’s Register Group (LR) has awarded an Approval in Principle for Tsuneishi Shipbuilding’s Kamsarmax design.
International Electrotechnical Commission’s (IEC’s) technical committee for marine energy conversion systems (IEC TC 114) has published a new specification designed to help marine energy industry with acoustic characterization measurements.
Singapore has prohibited crew change for seafarers with recent travel history to India, following a sharp spike in new COVID-19 cases in that country.
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) Group has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) based safety management/monitoring system (HiCAMS) and obtained classification and flag approval-in-principal (AIP) for the first time in the shipbuilding industry.
Dutch transportation company Samskip has increased its commitment to greener shipping through a new formal agreement with sustainable cargo initiative GoodShipping to run part of its fleet on marine biofuels and significantly reduce carbon footprint.
The use of fossil fuels in the shipping industry will need to be banned in the latter half of the decade if the industry is to meet its decarbonization efforts, a study by MAN Energy Solutions shows. The study, carried out in partnership with the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Resea
