In admitting its frustration with the shipping’s slow green path, Germany’s Oldendorff Carriers has announced it is setting up a research centre for maritime sustainability with the University of Strathclyde (UoS) at the university in the centre of Glasgow. Targeted areas of collaborative research...
https://splash247.com/oldendorff-forms-sustainability-centre-with-scottish-university/
A new study by UCL Energy Institute on the relationship between financing terms and climate performance of shipping companies reveals what its authors terms as a “troubling trend” of green financing. The research paper in a sustainability journal shows that a ship’s carbon intensity does not...
Classification society DNV has awarded Wallenius Wilhelmsen its first biofuel insetting verification statement in recognition of the company’s use of B100, a 100% biofuel, in a recent voyage. The biofuel…
https://gcaptain.com/dnv-awards-wallenius-wilhelmsen-first-biofuel-insetting-verification/
With pressure growing for bans on the discharge of exchaust gas scrubber wash water, Norway’s Color Line has placed an order that will see Wärtsilä add close-looped functionality to the current open-loop scrubbers on four of its vessels. The scrubber upgrade will be carried out on two large Color Line Ro-Pax and two high-speed Ro-Pax vessels, which sail between Norway and Denmark, and Norway and Germany, and will commence at the latter end of 2024.
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https://www.marinelog.com/legal/compliance/wartsila-to-upgrade-scrubbers-on-four-color-line-ships/
Sustainability startup Signol, which uses behavioural science to reduce emissions in shipping and aviation, has raised £2.5m ($3.28m) from well-known names in shipping. Signol’s tech-enabled behaviour change service helps hard-to-abate industries fully engage their human workforce to make the most...
https://splash247.com/mol-ultrabulk-and-marina-hadjipateras-invest-in-british-startup/
COSCO SHIPPING Heavy Industry and COSCO SHIPPING Container Lines have signed a contract for the construction of twelve 14,000 TEU containerships with dual-fuel methanol propulsion. The move underscores COSCO SHIPPING’s…
https://gcaptain.com/cosco-orders-12-methanol-powered-containerships/
The Houthis yesterday released footage of a group of militants boarding the Greek Sounion oil tanker in the Red Sea and detonating explosives. The dramatic video shows multiple explosives being laid across the ship. The Delta Tankers suezmax was attacked nine days ago, with its crew evacuating....
https://splash247.com/satellite-images-show-worrying-4-km-trail-from-burning-sounion/
Lloyd’s Register (LR) has made maritime history by assigning its first class notation for carbon capture onboard a ship. The Pacific Cobalt, a 50,000 dwt mid-range chemical carrier owned by…
https://gcaptain.com/lloyds-register-assigns-first-shipboard-carbon-capture-class-notation/
By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES, Aug 28 (Reuters) – The Alette Maersk was the first container vessel powered by low-carbon methanol fuel to cross the Pacific Ocean – a milestone in the shipping industry’s…
https://gcaptain.com/maersk-says-shippings-zero-emissions-push-needs-government-support/
The Sounion suezmax, the ship that risks becoming the worst tanker spill this century, remains on fire and may be leaking oil, according to the US Department of Defense. The ship was attacked multiple times by the Houthis in international waters between Yemen and Eritrea last Wednesday. The ship,...
https://splash247.com/red-sea-littoral-states-brace-for-the-worst-tanker-spill-this-century/