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  The northernmost heavy-cargo port on the Great Lakes, Red Rock, is being developed in partnership with the BMI Group and the Red Rock Indian Band following the signature of a memorandum of understanding. Red Rock is about 110 km northeast of Thunder Bay on Lake Superior. Once a busy timber and mill town, Red Rock is

  According to a new study published on the plos.org research platform, the world’s oceans contain an estimated 171 trillion plastic particles which if assembled would weigh about 2.3 million tons. As well as the environmental disaster, there is the huge harm caused to marine life. International scientists examined data collected between 1979 and 2019

  Maersk announced this week it has resumed a weekly service with container-on-barge shipments from the port of Constanta in Romania to Reni in southwest Ukraine. Its ships stopped calling at Ukraine ports last February due to Russia’s invasion of the country.  The service runs across two routes – via the Constanta/Danube Channel and the

  HaiSea Marine, majority owned by Haisla Nation in partnership with Vancouver-based Seaspan ULC, has celebrated the official naming and blessing of its tug boat fleet – which includes the world’s first fully electric harbour tug boats, along with dual fuel (LNG and Diesel) escort tug boats. Once delivered, the green fleet will provide ship-assist

  The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA has issued a statement rejecting  recent media reports that giant cranes sourced from China at U.S.  ports pose a national security threat. “There have been no known security breaches as the result of any cranes at U.S. ports, despite alarmist media reports,” the AAPA said. “Further, modern

  Høvik, Norway – The collaboration between ocean industries will need to intensify for the rapid buildout of offshore wind and aquaculture to coexist sustainably with other industries and the ecosystem. According to DNV’s Spatial Competition Forecast, the amount of ocean space occupied by installations will grow 5-fold by 2050. This will be driven by

  The Finnish technology group Wärtsilä today announced it has received its first order for carbon capture and storage-ready scrubber systems – CCS-Ready scrubbers. The order was booked in Wärtsilä’s order intake in November 2022 and the delivery is expected to take place in 2023.  Four 8,200 TEU container vessels, being built at undisclosed Asian

  The Port of London Authority, which oversees safe operations in the UK’s busiest port, has committed to achieve Net Zero by 2040, or earlier. Last year’s performance delivered the 50% cut in carbon emissions three years ahead of the original 2025 target. The introduction of sustainable biofuel, in place of diesel in its fleet