Australian offshore engineering company Worley has secured a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for the Santos-led Bayu-Undan carbon capture and storage (CSS) project in the Timor Sea. Under the contract, Worley will provide FEED services for the Bayu-Undan offshore facilities and...
https://splash247.com/worley-awarded-feed-contract-for-santos-offshore-carbon-capture-project/
Singapore-based owner Berge Bulk has contracted a British maker of rotor sails Anemoi Marine Technologies to supply and fit two of its bulkers with wind-assisted propulsion. The first vessel, the 2012-built valemax ore carrier Berge Neblina was made wind-ready earlier this year and will be fitted...
Congressman Alan Lowenthal who represents the Port of Long Beach, along with co-sponsor congresswoman Nanette Barragán, yesterday introduced the Clean Shipping Act of 2022. This bill becomes the first stand-alone legislation to zero out pollution from all ocean shipping companies that do business...
https://splash247.com/us-congress-debates-clean-shipping-bill/
There have long been warnings that failure by IMO to act more aggressively on shipping decarbonization would lead more countries and regions to introduce their own measures. Already, the EU is moving to include shipping in its Emissions Trading System. Now, the discontent with IMO actions has reached the U.S. Congress in the form of a new Clean Shipping Act.
Congressman Alan Lowenthal (CA-47), who represents the Port of Long Beach, today introduced the Clean Shipping Act, legislation aimed at...
The Drax Group, whose U.K. power stations generate electricity using wood pellets produced from sustainable low-value commercial forestry residues, is also a major supplier of those pellets worldwide. Now it is looking for a greener way to get them from North America, where its pellets business is based, to power stations in Japan.
It is partnering with Japan’s MOL Drybulk to develop pellet carriers fitted with MOL’s Wind Challenger hard sail technology, with first ship expected as soon as 2025.
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British power firm Drax Group has come out in support of Mitsui OSK Lines’ (MOL) hard sail development. Drax is partnering with MOL Drybulk to ship wood pellets to Japanese biomass energy clients on a set of new ships which will feature MOL’s Wind Challenger hard sail. A first ship with the wind...
https://splash247.com/drax-signs-up-for-mols-hard-sail-solution/
By Rachel Morison (Bloomberg) Short-term German power prices more than doubled as calm weather and the expected halt of gas flows on the Nord Stream pipeline crimped supplies. Power for…
https://gcaptain.com/wind-solar-and-pipelines-all-fail-germany/
Japan’s Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) has moved to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing vessels by installing and testing energy saving devices on about 50 dry bulk carriers over the next three years. The company said that even though manufacturers have independently verified the...
https://splash247.com/nyk-to-trial-energy-saving-devices-on-50-bulk-carriers/
by Nikolaj Skydsgaard (Reuters) A.P. Moller-Maersk has withdrawn its board member from industry organisation International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), partly over the trade association’s stance on climate change, according to…
https://gcaptain.com/maersk-quits-ics-international-chamber-of-shipping/
by Wesley Morgan (TheConversation) Prime minister Anthony Albanese is hoping his government’s more ambitious climate policy will help reset Pacific relations when he meets with island leaders next week. Hosted…
https://gcaptain.com/pacific-maritime-security-climate-policy/