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Ice breaking giant Sibir embarks on its maiden voyage
The giant nuclear-powered icebreaker is currently heading to Murmansk to stock up before starting work along the Northern Sea Route. Sibir, the second of the

European Union halts merger of South Korean shipbuilders
The European Commission has prohibited, under the EU Merger Regulation, the acquisition of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering CO., Ltd (DSME) by Hyundai Heavy Industries

Ocean Alliance adds Prince Rupert to new services
According to a report today on the JOC.Com news platform, the Ocean Alliance, the second-largest container ship alliance by volume, has unveiled network changes that

Port Saint John affiche une augmentation de 11 % du fret en 2021
Le tonnage global de fret au port de Saint John pour l’année 2021 était de 28 822 218 tonnes métriques (MT), soit une augmentation de

Port Saint John posts 11% cargo increase in 2021
Overall cargo tonnage at Port Saint John for the year 2021 was 28,822,218 metric tonnes (MT), an 11% increase over 2020, the New Brunswick port

Maersk advances net-zero emissions by 10 years
Copenhagen – A.P. Moller – Maersk has announced a new bar to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across its entire business: 2040 instead of the

Container truck issue brewing at Port of Vancouver
Canada’s largest private sector union has warned that a controversial plan to force hundreds of older container trucks out of the Metro Vancouver port transportation

Port of Saguenay welcomes M/V Nordersand as first vessel of 2022
Saguenay, QC – The Port of Saguenay welcomed its first ocean-going vessel of 2022 when the M/V Nordersand docked at the Marcel-Dionne wharf at the

Le Port de Saguenay amorce 2022 en recevant le M/V Nordersand
Saguenay – Le Port de Saguenay a accueilli son premier navire océanique en 2022 alors que le M/V Nordersand a accosté au quai Marcel-Dionne du

Port of Quebec reports excellent year in 2021
Québec City – At a meeting held virtually due to COVID-19, the Québec Port Authority (QPA) unveiled today the results of the Port’s operations over
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Collaborative technologies for maritime transport at economies of scale (Forum)
by Mikael Lind, Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), Adam Roark, AWS Transportation & Logistics, Amazon, Michele Sancricca, AWS Transportation & Logistics, Amazon, Almir Zerem, RISE,

Melting sea ice makes Canada more, not less dependent on Icebreakers (Forum)
Climate change leads to more sea ice and higher risks for commercial marine shipping For more than ten months of the year, Canada’s Arctic is

New technology may weaken seafarers’ professional judgment (Forum)
By Guro Kulset Merakerås A good sailor has traditionally been a person who makes decisions that ensure that their ship, cargo and crew are

Montreal, a hub of excellence in intelligent transport and logistics (Forum)
Open letter by Sylvie Vachon, President and CEO of the Montreal Port Authority, published following the recent interview with Jean-Philippe Décarie in La Presse. As a

Three reasons the Arctic freeze is unseasonably late and why it matters
Summer minimum sea ice extent in the Arctic reached the second-lowest level on record in 2020 (NASA) By Mark Serreze. Research Professor of Geography and

How the Global Pandemic Put Container Shipping in the Spotlight (Forum)
By Claudio Bozzo, Chief Operating Officer, MSC Shipping is one of the oldest industries in the world. Today, around 90% of goods are transported by

Shell sets course for net-zero emissions shipping, backing hydrogen and fuel cells (Forum)
In a new report published September 29, Decarbonising Shipping: Setting Shell’s Course, Shell highlights the important role that hydrogen and fuel cells could play in

The wind carries a shipping revolution with Oceanbird (Forum)
Innovative Swedish technology will make it possible to power the large ocean-going vessels by wind, reducing emissions by 90 percent. Oceanbird is a concept for

Too easily forgotten heroes under COVID-19 (Forum)
Widely regarded as the senior statesman of world maritime journalism, Michael Grey* offers, in our FORUM section, an impassioned commentary on seafarers as the too easily

Sustainable fuel is not science fiction (Forum)
Copenhagen, 20 August 2020 Nel, Everfuel and Haldor Topsøe join Ørsted, Mærsk, Copenhagen Airports, DSV Panalpina, SAS and DFDS to establish one of the world’s

Greenpeace launch protest against Shell’s Brent oil field decommissioning plans (Forum)
Greenpeace activist Jennifer Ganster North Sea – Greenpeace activists from Germany have launched a protest in the North Sea to call out Shell’s plans to

Port of London Pilot, Ms. Ivana Carrioni-Burnett, shares a new personal insight during the COVID-19 crisis (Forum)
Photo : Ivana Maria Carrioni-Burnett 10 August 2020 by Ivana Maria Carrioni-Burnett London. UK. Reporting for Human Rights at Sea , Port of London Authority Pilot, Ms.
