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  PortsToronto, in partnership with RanMarine Technology, today launched a pilot program that saw two WasteShark aquadrones make their Canadian debut in the Toronto Harbour. As part of PortsToronto’s larger Trash Trapping Program, two new WasteSharks, Ebb and Flow, will join PortsToronto’s network of Seabins in capturing floating debris and small plastic pollution from the […]

  After two years of construction, the Port of Montreal has officially opened its new overpass over Notre-Dame Street East in the Viau sector. Intended to remove close to 1,500 trucks a day from the local road network, this new infrastructure will improve the efficiency and fluidity of freight transport. Providing a direct connection between

  The new lower-emission DMA for the shipping sector is produced by adding renewable raw material into the conventional refining process and by using mass balance the fuel attains high GHG emission-reducing benefits while maintaining the fuel quality and specifications to ISO 8217.The fuel is certified according to ISCC plus. According to the partners, Neste

  The British Columbia Maritime Employers Association (BCMEA) has received confirmation over the weekend that International Labour and Warehouse Union Canada (ILWU Canada) voting membership have ratified the four-year negotiated tentative agreement that was achieved with the assistance of the Canada Industrial Relations Board earlier this week. The BCMEA ratified the agreement on July 31st.

  Faced with the severe drought conditions that have plagued the operations of the Panama Canal, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) highlighted on August 2 the transit from the Pacific of the Ever Max, the container ship of the greatest capacity to have navigated the waterway. At 365.8 m (1,200ft) long and 50.9 m (167 ft) wide, the

  New York-based LNG services provider REV LNG and the Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority (HOPA) recently delivered LNG to the Fure Viten, a Furetank vessel under charter by Petro-Nav Desgagnés. It is the first European-owned vessel to receive LNG at Hamilton and represents more than 40 bunkering operations completed by Petro-Nav Desgagnés and REV LNG at HOPA

  Port-Cartier, QC – ArcelorMittal Mining Canada announced that its parent company, ArcelorMittal, has won the 11th annual Altair Enlighten Award in the Sustainable Process category, and that the use of pyrolytic oil as a replacement for heavy fuel oil in Port-Cartier was one of the two featured projects. The construction of an industrial scale demonstration facility at ArcelorMittal’s steel plant in Ghent, Belgium, was

  Cargo liquefaction still remains the greatest contributor to loss of life associated with bulk carrier losses while grounding remains the main cause of ship losses, according to the recently published Bulk Carrier Casualty Report 2013-2022 from INTERCARGO. The document was submitted to the International Maritime Organization in May, ahead of the 9th session of

  According a report released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), immature technologies and unstable designs have provoked significant delays and cost overruns in the U.S. Coast Guard’s highest priority modernization programs. The Coast Guard is modernizing its vessels in an effort known as recapitalization. The Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) and Polar Security Cutter (PSC)