The opening of the 2022 navigation season is scheduled to take place on the following dates and times: Welland Canal: March 24, 2022 – 0800 hours (D.S.T.) • Montreal / Lake Ontario Section: March 22, 2022 – 0800 hours (D.S.T.) Ship transits will be subject to weather and ice conditions. Restrictions may apply in some […]
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Canada’s Competition Bureau has joined the competition authorities of the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom in a new working group focussed on sharing information to identify and prevent potentially anticompetitive conduct in the global supply and distribution of goods. The working group brings together the Bureau, the U.S. Department of Justice,
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According to the annual report of the World Forum Offshore Wind (WFO), China set a new record year for turbine installations in 2021 while leading the world for installed capacity. Fueled by a global surge towards renewable energy, the report shows that significant investments resulted in an additional 15.7 GW of installed offshore wind capacity
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Québec – Ocean Group has announced a 10-year agreement with the Port of Vancouver to provide harbour towing services at the two Roberts Bank terminals, Deltaport and Westshore Terminals. To carry out this agreement, Ocean Group will mobilize two DAMEN ASD Tug 2813 tugs equipped with fire fighting systems and IMO Tier III engines, starting
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The technology group Wärtsilä, together with the shipping company Grimaldi Group, have unveiled a new system that uses exhaust gas scrubber washwater to tackle the amount of microplastics in the world’s oceans; a critical and growing global environmental challenge. According to the association Plastic Europe, 368 million tonnes of plastic were produced in 2019
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Together with the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), Valmet pilot tested the use of a marine scrubber and a wet electrostatic precipitator to reduce particle emissions from ships by up to 99 percent. With a history of over 200 years, Valmet is a global developer and supplier of process technologies, automation and services
Longer waiting times at European hub ports for feeder and short-sea vessels are adding voyage days and slowing the turnaround of ships and equipment, with the bottlenecks spreading to smaller ports in the regional network, reports the JOC.com news platform. The ongoing hub port congestion has left feeder carriers facing “operational chaos,” amid poor schedule
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Ten out of 24 crew members have reportedly lost their lives so far after a Spanish trawler sank in the North Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland on Tuesday. The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) in Halifax reported receiving an EPIRB (Emergency Position Indication Radio Beacon) from the FV Villa de Pitanxo just after midnight
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Researchers have announced that a 17.6 m rogue wave – the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded – has been measured in the waters off of Ucluelet, British Colombia. The rogue wave, which measures as high as a four-story building, was recorded in November 2020 by Victoria, B.C.-based MarineLabs Data Systems (MarineLabs). It is the subject of a
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Brest (France) – Since November 2020, Grain de Sail operates the world’s first modern cargo sailboat to meet international maritime regulations: an eponymous schooner-type vessel of 24 metres and 50 tons of payload capacity. The fast-growing company has this time designed a ship twice as long in collaboration with the naval architecture firm L2Onaval. The
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