Commodity trader Cargill and BAR Technologies have embarked on a strategic project with naval architect Deltamarine to promote wind prosultion technology to commercial shipping. The project will see BAR Technologies’ large wing sails WindWings fitted to the deck of bulk carriers, which could reduce...
https://splash247.com/cargill-backs-wind-propulsion-technology/
Dionysios Zachariou
Decarbonization Analysis of Capesize Bulkers serving the Australia-China trade route*
by Dionysios Zachariou** MSc Marine Engineering
Abstract
The initial International Maritime Organization (IMO) Greenhouse gases (GHG) strategy has triggered numerous discussions about the level of ambition that shipping should adopt to comply with relevant requirements. This analysis attempts to optimize, in terms of cost, the decarbonization pathway with a conservative approach. For this...
European Commission must stop France and Spain from killing thousands of dolphins, warn NGOs
NGOs warn that thousands of common dolphins in the Bay of Biscay face horrific deaths in fishing nets this winter if the EU Commission does not step in with emergency measures to reduce bycatch, the single largest cause of harm and death to these dolphins today. Despite the legal requirement to protect this species and scientific recommendations [1] to close the fisheries responsible for the catches in...
Canada is the latest nation to start holding a national discussion on whether to take shipping emission regulations into its own hands, rather than relying on the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to serve as the global shipping legislator. Laurel Collins, who serves as the member of...
https://splash247.com/debate-starts-in-canada-about-legislating-shipping-emission-targets/
Total has tapped Hafnia and Viken Shipping to charter LNG-fuelled newbuild tankers, the latest sign of energy majors forcing through energy transition in shipping. Total has sealed long-term charters with the two owners who will now order two 110,000 dwt LNG-fuelled aframaxes each for delivery in...
https://splash247.com/total-taps-hafnia-and-viken-for-lng-fuelled-aframax-newbuilds/
The President of International Propeller Club, Port of Piraeus Mr C. Frangoulis with HELMEPA Executive Coordinator Ms Chr. Prekezes
HELMEPA congratulates Associate Member International Propeller Club, Port of Piraeus for its environmental sensitivity
In an original and socially responsible way, the Propeller Club celebrated the 85th anniversary of its founding, by symbolically cleaning the Votsalakia Beach in Piraeus, on Sunday, October 25th. More than 60 volunteers, led by President Mr. Costis...
How climate cuffs could save the planet, Markets in the time of Covid-19
Tuesday 27 October 2020 – Vol.11 Ed.44.2
Commentary: Climate cuffs could save the planet
By Michael Mainelli and Djellil Bouzidi
As temperatures rise, climate change is becoming increasingly costly. The world needs financial tools to turn down the economic thermostat. Sustainability-linked bonds (also called environmental policy performance bonds or environmental impact bonds) are one such instrument. Sovereign policy...
A breathtaking view of Kastelorizo
Kastelorizo: The ‘invisible’ heroes of a forgotten island
by Angela Boletsi*
Kastelorizo or Megisti, an island of geopolitical importance inversely proportional to its size, just 2 kilometres off the Turkish coast and about 600 kilometres from mainland Greece, is the south-eastern edge of Greece and Europe. The unique settlement of the island develops amphitheatrically around the port and can only enchant visitors with its colourful neoclassical houses, over...
Prime’s Bunkersplus Posidonia 2020 Webinar invitation
https://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2020/10/26/primes-bunkersplus-posidonia-2020-webinar-invitation/
Shipping has had a mixed reaction to last week’s Intersessional Working Group on Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Ships at the International Maritime Organization (IMO), which agreed to make an existing target legally binding: to reduce the carbon intensity of shipping by 40% compared with...
https://splash247.com/mixed-reaction-to-imos-latest-green-deliberations/