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Heddle hires new Chief Strategy Officer
Heddle Shipyards, the largest Canadian ship repair company on the Great Lakes, announced that Jared Newcombe has been hired as Chief Strategy Officer effective 4
World Shipping Council pleads for more collaboration to mitigate Covid-19 challenges (Forum)
Ocean carriers are taking all available measures to improve the speed and efficiency of cargo movement including employing all available vessel tonnage says the World
As it stands, crew changes will get worse before they get better
Crew changes are once more becoming difficult as much of the world locks down again following the emergence of several new and more transmissible variants
Logistec’s Gulf Stream Marine add five terminals in Texas to Green Alliance
Montréal – Logistec Corporation (“Logistec”) and its U.S. Gulf Coast affiliate, Gulf Stream Marine, Inc. (“GSM”), announced the addition of five terminals in Texas that
Logistec Stevedoring appoints Phil O’Brien as Vice-President, Business Development
MONTREAL- Logistec Stevedoring Inc. is very pleased to welcome Philip O’Brien to the Logistec team as Vice-President, Business Development. Mr. O’Brien will lead Logistec’s experienced sales and
Siemens Gamesa and Siemens Energy join forces towards offshore green hydrogen
Siemens Gamesa and Siemens Energy announced today that they are joining forces combining their ongoing wind-to-hydrogen developments to address one of the major challenges of
Maersk renews expanded partnership to rid oceans of plastics
Copenhagen, Denmark – A.P. Moller-Maersk announced it is renewing for three years and expanding its partnership with The Ocean Cleanup, a foundation dedicated to
Wärtsilä SmartMove Suite sets sail with the American Steamship Company
Wärtsilä Corporation has announced the first order of its SmartMove Suite was placed by American Steamship Company (ASC), a subsidiary of Rand-ASC Holdings LLC, and
Thunder Bay exceeds 10 million tonnes for first time since 1997
The Port of Thunder Bay 2020 shipping season closed today, marking the completion of the Port’s most successful year in over two decades. Annual cargo
Quebec government grants $55m to Montreal Contrecoeur container project
The Government of Quebec today announced $55 million in financial assistance to the Montreal Port Authority (MPA) towards its $750 million container terminal project in
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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.