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  St. Catharines, ON –  Algoma Central Corporation  today announced that it has doubled its investment in the FureBear joint venture, and will construct four additional dual-fuel ice class 1A 17,999 DWT climate-friendly product tankers with their partner Furetank AB  of Sweden, bringing the total investment to eight vessels. Algoma owns 50% of the joint […]

   Hamilton, ON – The Minister of Transport, the Honourable Omar Alghabra, today announced up to nearly $5 million in funding under the National Trade Corridors Fund for the Building Capacity in Canada’s Steel Supply Chain project. The close to $10 million total project will be undertaken by the Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority and will relieve

  During the World Leaders Summit at the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP27), Canada and the United States announced their joint work to facilitate the establishment of a Green Shipping Corridors Network in the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Seaway System. Under the Initiative, the

  Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt: A new Action Plan, launched at COP 27 by UN organizations, shipowners and unions, sets out recommendations to upskill seafarers to meet shipping’s decarbonisation goals. The plan is in response to findings from new research, the modelling of which cautions that as many as 800,000 seafarers will require additional training

  The White House has announced the appointment of former Milwaukee port director, Adam Tindall-Schlicht, as the next Administrator of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (GLS). Mr. Tindall-Schlicht resigned his position at Port Milwaukee on October 19. In recent years, the GLS has been managed by Deputy Administrator Craig Middlebrook. An agency of

  Shipments of Western Canadian grain are on the rise at the Port of Thunder Bay.  Grain elevators handled 840,000 tonnes of wheat, canola, and other grains during the month of October.  Monthly grain shipments increased by 33% from September, and 8% over last October.  The increase was expected as the fall grain harvest moves

     Lévis, QC – New data from a study, conducted by consulting and advisory firm Deloitte LLP in Canada, shows that the entry of Davie Shipbuilding (Davie) in the National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS), and other key programs, will create even greater economic benefits than highlighted in the original analysis published in 2020. As part

  MONTRÉAL – Suivant l’analyse rigoureuse des experts du ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs et conformément à l’émission d’une autorisation ministérielle le 4 novembre 2022, Ray-Mont Logistiques (RML) annonce aujourd’hui la poursuite de ses activités sur son site d’environ 24 hectares acheté en 2016

  Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt – Three more governments have endorsed a worldwide cross-sector initiative to catalyse the supply of green fuels, and support the global energy transition, it was announced today in Egypt at COP27. Panama, Uruguay, and Norway have now signed up to the Clean Energy Marine Hub Initiative (CEM-Hubs), a group of representatives

  The Mission to Seafarers has released the findings of its Q3 2022 Seafarers Happiness Index report, undertaken with the support of the Standard Club and Idwal. Seafarer happiness levels reached 7.3/10, up from 7.21 last quarter, which follows a sustained increase in seafarer satisfaction, after a record low of 5.85 recorded in Q1 of