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AAL Shipping’s 1st Super B-Class Vessel Enters Construction

Credits: AAL Shipping

Construction has begun on AAL Shipping’s (AAL) first Super B-Class dual-fuel-ready heavy lift multipurpose vessel (MPV), reports Offshore Energy.

Steel-cutting ceremony for MPV

AAL Limassol is the first of AAL Shipping’s order of six 32,000 dwt dual-fuel ready newbuild vessels to undergo construction, billed to enter the water in 2024

The beginning of construction started with steel-cutting ceremony at the CSSC Huangpu Wenchong Shipyard, Guangzhou, China on 1 March.

“Work has...

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ABS Extends Low Carbon Shipping Outlook

  • ABS recently issued its third in the series of Low Carbon Shipping Outlooks, focusing on the marine sector’s progress towards reducing its emissions.
  • Specifically, ABS analyzes external decarbonization trends and presents a life-cycle or “value chain” perspective of the leading alternative marine fuels’ greenhouse gas (GHG) footprints.

According to the ABS report, despite the challenges faced by the shipping sector globally due to the pandemic (economic crisis, supply chain disruptions, more...

https://mfame.guru/abs-extends-low-carbon-shipping-outlook/

KR & HHI Ink Strategic Partnership MoU for GHG Issue

Korean Register (KR) signed an MOU with Hyundai Heavy Industry (HHI) Group to work together to address key environmental challenges facing the industry, reports Manifold Times.

Key environmental challenges 

South Korean classification society Korean Register (KR) signed an MOU with Hyundai Heavy Industry (HHI) Group to work together in a strategic partnership to address key environmental challenges facing the industry, specifically decarbonisation, and the forthcoming IMO regulations.

Companies in...

https://mfame.guru/kr-hhi-ink-strategic-partnership-mou-for-ghg-issue/

SSI releases guidelines for sustainable shipping

FreightWaves interviewed the Sustainable Shipping Initiative.

The Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) is helping chart the course for a maritime industry that is “very slow to change.”

SSI released a statement last week saying its updated “Roadmap to a sustainable shipping industry” is a “resource for stakeholders across the shipping value chain to navigate the major, pressing sustainability challenges facing the industry.” 

SSI Executive Director Andrew Stephens told FreightWaves he has seen a shift in the past five to seven years from the industry doing...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ssi-releases-new-guidelines-for-sustainable-shipping

Standard Club Issues Overview of Cargo Fumigation Landscape

Following the pandemic and its travel bans, fumigators are unable to sail with the vessel. Therefore, ship operators and crew, who do not have the necessary expertise to handle toxic materials, are exposed to a risky operational environment.

In this context, Standard Club has issued guidelines for topping-up of fumigant by crew during the voyage.

Crew fumigation

Standard Club is witnessing an increasing number of cases where ships that are typically engaged in carriage of logs are being asked to...

https://mfame.guru/standard-club-issues-overview-of-cargo-fumigation-landscape/

Ship Exhaust Emissions are A Major Cause of Worry, Say Scientists

  • Emissions from ship exhausts can have a major impact on air pollution, weather and climate.
  • Until relatively recently these have been largely unregulated, particularly in international waters.
  • Some ships in the open ocean emit large amounts of sulphates from traces of sulphur in the fuel, with a strong potential to alter clouds’ behaviour and pollute coastal areas.

When results of the new research were compared with ships measured in the English Channel (where emissions are controlled through...

https://mfame.guru/ship-exhaust-emissions-are-a-major-cause-of-worry-say-scientists/

Technology to Combat Container Fires in Shipping Industry

  • Fire safety has become a major concern in the container shipping industry, in particular, with vessels of 20,000-TEU and more entering the market.
  • A fire in just one container can have catastrophic implications for the whole of the cargo.
  • The very nature of container shipping means that the cargoes are in general finished goods of high value.
  • Insurer Allianz gives the example of a March 2018 fire onboard the Maersk Honam southeast of Oman.
  •  At the time the ship was carrying 7,860 containers,...

https://mfame.guru/technology-to-combat-container-fires-in-shipping-industry/

US Beefs Up Global Oil Imports Ahead of IMO 2020

According to trading and analyst sources, the US is taking advantage of record-low prices of one of the world’s dirtiest fuels by buying record volumes, which it intends to upgrade into cleaner products before new shipping rules take effect, reports New Age Business.

US imports boosted

US trade sources said that it recently had become economical to ship fuel oil from countries such as Russia, boosting imports of the product into the United States.

This comes even as prices for high-sulphur fuel...

http://mfame.guru/us-beefs-up-global-oil-imports-ahead-of-imo-2020/

New IMO Regulations to Ramp Up LNG Bunkering

  • According to marine fuel expert Sergey Ivanov, the global sulphur cap of 0.50 per cent which is set to be implemented by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) next year could drive the global uptake on LNG as bunker fuel.
  • The new regulation will have an impact on up to 70,000 ships around the world once it comes into effect on January 1, 2020.

Demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a conventional source of energy in the maritime industry will continue to grow because of its...

http://mfame.guru/new-imo-regulations-to-ramp-up-lng-bunkering/