Today marks 100 days until the global sulphur cap kicks in with many in the shipping community still scrabbling to get ready for the single largest regulation to hit the industry this decade. The greatest unknown as the last days of 2019 tick down are the bunker price spreads, which have proved...
Alastair Marsh
Lloyd’s Register signs up to Getting to Zero Coalition.
Organisation part of industry alliance leading collaboration for international shipping’s decarbonisation.
23 September 2019, New York – Lloyd’s Register is among senior leaders within the maritime, energy, infrastructure and finance sectors that have signed up to the Getting to Zero Coalition, a partnership between the Global Maritime Forum, the Friends of Ocean Action, and the World Economic Forum.
The Coalition, which is...
http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/09/23/lloyds-register-signs-up-to-getting-to-zero-coalition/
The video that shows the actions of the kayakers already has more than a million views on YouTube.
Many YouTubeusers were more than excited after watching a video in which you can see some very noble kayakers. They run out to help seal pups who are struggling because of plastic pollution in the ocean.
The clip, of more than 5 minutes, shows these good Samaritans cutting the nets in which mammals are wrapped, freeing them from their suffering. In several of the bailouts, the animals seem to be...
Elizabeth Petit, Nicole Rencoret and Thordis Thordardottir from the Sustainable Shipping Initiative write exclusively for Splash today ahead of Climate Week kicking off on Monday. Next week, Climate Week is descending on New Yorkers and the world. The voice of shipping will be heard loud and clear...
https://splash247.com/where-sustainable-biofuels-fit-in-shippings-bunker-mix/
Hybridization is an attractive option for feeder vessels
The shipping industry must cut GHG emissions. A new joint study demonstrates how hybrid power systems can make a difference.
MAN Energy Solutions, DNV GL and Corvus Energy looked into hybridization options for larger cargo vessels with fluctuating energy needs. The ship chosen for the investigation was a 1,700 TEU diesel-powered container feeder vessel. The study showed that at current market conditions, using batteries as...
A viral YouTube video recorded the moment when a group of scientists captured a strange sea creature, without imagining its chilling appearance.
Thousands of users on YouTubewere ‘speechless’ to learn the appearance of a creature taken more than 3,400 meters under the ice of Antarctica. The unusual finding became viral in Mexico, Canada and the United States.
As detailed by the British Daily Express, and which was viralized on YouTube, “the Antarctic expedition launched into the waters for a...
BMT spins-off SMART to GreenSteam following strategic review
https://www.bmt.org/news/2019/bmt-spins-off-smart-to-greensteam/
(TEDDINGTON, U.K., 20 SEPTEMBER 2019 at 0630 BST) – BMT, a leading international design, engineering, science and management consultancy, has sold its UK-based SMART business to GreenSteam, a majority owned company of BP. The marine efficiency software solutions provider is reputable in leveraging Machine Learning methodologies and next generation fuel saving platforms...
The error, which caused jokes on social networks, was published for 12 hours in an article shared on the official site of the Atlantic Alliance until it was corrected.
Paul Beckley, maritime expert of NATO, said in an article dedicated to the importance of the protection of free access to the seas that one of the places that must be defended by the Atlantic Alliance is the non-existent “sea of Asimov”. The error was subsequently corrected.
“Recent events in the Persian Gulf and the Asimov Sea...
John Faraclas
Are Capes about to floor-down the Dry Market…?
The BDI (Baltic Dry Index) lost 74 points earlier on today and now stands at 2,129 points – for a second day below the “famous threshold” as of the end of Dec 2013 when it stood at 2,247 points. Geopolitics in uncharted waters. John Faraclas’ brief daily recap:
The Capes’ BCI fall was back to the wild three-digit days; it clocked 258 points and now reads 4,136 points. Will same go under the 4,000 points threshold? We shall see…
The...
http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/09/19/are-capes-about-to-floor-down-the-dry-market/
The video soon became viral on YouTube as it shows the heartbreaking fight between a giant anaconda and an insatiable crocodile over the dominance of a territory.
YouTube users were shocked to witness an epic battle. A quiet boat ride by a tourist in a mighty river became a traumatic episode in his life, as he managed to record in a video, viralized hours later on YouTube, the fight to the death between a giant 5-meter anaconda and a hungry crocodile, who could not stand the invasion of his...