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U.S. Coast Guard proposes to eliminate six mariner training requirements
Asserting that existing rules exceed international standards and impose unnecessary costs on American mariners, the U.S. Coast Guard proposes deregulatory action dropping six training and
World Shipping Council launches digital global Whale Chart with HUB Ocean
The World Shipping Council (WSC), in partnership with HUB Ocean, today launched a digital version of the WSC Whale Chart, making global information on measures
LGL and Hyundai team up on nuclear-powered vehicle carrier project
Liberty Global Logistics LLC (LGL) and Hyundai Glovis Co., Ltd. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly evaluate the commercial, technical and regulatory
Maritime industry must move beyond wellbeing awareness to change crew behaviour
The maritime industry risks mistaking wellbeing activity for wellbeing progress unless it places greater emphasis on whether programmes are changing seafarer behaviour, according to health
IMEC and The Hood launch Sisterhood Box to support the next generation of female seafarers
The International Maritime Employers’ Council (IMEC) and The Hood Platform have joined forces to launch the Sisterhood Box, a new initiative providing female cadets with
Port of Corner Brook, LOGISTEC and NEAS strengthen Canada’s Arctic supply chain resiliency
The Port of Corner Brook and marine terminal operator LOGISTEC, an Enstructure company, marked the launch of Nunavut Eastern Arctic Shipping’s (NEAS) new Liner Service
Investment of $77 million in new Arctic Bay small craft harbour
On behalf of the Honourable Joanne Thompson, Minister of Fisheries, Lori Idlout, Nunavut Member of Parliament, today announced an investment of over $77 million in
World’s largest reconstruction of a 17th-century icon moved ashore at Dutch museum
The Batavia, an approximately 650-tonne wooden vessel built in 1628, is now in its new location on land at Museum Batavialand. On Friday, October 2,
ABS supports study assessing the economics of nuclear-powered LNG carriers
BANGKOK – A joint study with ABS, Blossom Energy and a global shipping company found that while the initial investment for a nuclear-powered liquefied natural
St. Lawrence Seaway traffic consolidating upward 2026 trend
An upward cargo trend appears to be firming up on the St. Lawrence Seaway during the 2026 navigation season, despite the impact of the Trump
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80% of ports do not reap the benefits of digitalization according to Innovez-One (Forum)
Innovez One, one of the world’s leading providers of port management software for the world’s busiest ports and towage operators, stated that of the
Five percent zero emission fuels by 2030 needed for Paris-aligned shipping decarbonization (Forum)
The ambition of the Getting to Zero Coalition is to have commercially viable zero emission vessels operating along deep sea trade routes by 2030.
The Mask of Cassandra (Forum)
By Michael Grey* Nearly a year into the wretched pandemic and it is difficult to determine any real cheer amid the winter snow. Some
Provincial government investments should give priority to Made in Canada ships (FORUM)
Ottawa – The Canadian Marine Industries and Shipbuilding Association (CMISA) has expressed concern over provincial governments ordering vessels overseas rather than giving such business to
The Poseidon Principles Disclosure Report is good, but the disclosure could have been better (Forum)
In December 2020, the signatories of the Poseidon Principles—currently twenty large banks—released their first Annual Disclosure Report. As the first paragraph of the report says:
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
The ongoing seafarer crisis: do charterers have hearts? (FORUM)
Widely regarded as the senior statesman of world shipping journalism, Michael Grey* offers in our FORUM section, another impassioned commentary and an urgent suggestion for
Tailwinds of 2020 (Forum)
Shipping has faced some historically significant challenges this year, we opened the year with IMO 2020, the greatest change in fuel regulation in this
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.