Demo prices are achieving new highs with one old gas carrier managing to notch a very strong $551 per ldt. The 1983-built , formerly owned by Japan’s Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and in layup this year in Labuan, Malaysia, has managed to get a price of $551 per ldt, the highest figure seen so far […]
https://splash247.com/nyk-lng-carrier-fetches-highest-demo-rate-of-the-year/
The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a notice confirming that it has discovered Asian Gypsy Moth (AGM) egg masses on three vessels arriving from Japan during July and August 2018. The two of them were vehicle transport ships entering into Baltimore and the other one, for which the vessel-type was not clear, was inspected at Houston.
On one of the vehicle transport ships, agriculture specialists during a routine inspection discovered Lymantri mathura Moore, commonly known as the Rosy...
https://safety4sea.com/us-cbp-finds-asian-gypsy-moth-on-three-ships-from-japan/
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has concluded that Japan’s whaling programme in the North Pacific is illegal.
Namely, Japan’s import and sale of sei whale products from its whaling programme in the North Pacific has been censured as illegal by CITES.
Sei whales are listed on Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), meaning that international commercial trade in their...
https://safety4sea.com/cites-bans-japans-whaling-in-north-pacific/
NYK has signed a contract with Total to charter out a newbuild LNG carrier for seven years with an option for an extra year. The 174,000 cu m ship will be built at Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea for delivery in 2021. The membrane type LNG carrier will be equipped with a WinGD-made...
https://splash247.com/nyk-seals-total-charter-for-lng-newbuild/
A U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon assigned to the Mad Foxes of Patrol Squadron (VP) 5 is on display next to the newest maritime patrol asset of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, the Kawasaki P-1, in November 2014. VP-5 is forward deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility conducting theater anti-submarine warfare operations and joint interoperability efforts with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. US Navy photo.
Japan should be added to the “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing network...
The 83-ship bulker mammoth from Japan, Mitsubishi Corporation, is offloading ships at pace with Splash understanding three have been sold in the last week ago. First to be sold were two 38,000 dwt handies, Unicorn Ocean and Ocean Wealth, sold en bloc for $15m to Orient Shipping. The giant trading...
(Updated at 11:00, 2018 Oct 1st)
The typhoon no.24 (Trami) passed through Japan, and there are some operational impacts from it.
Please be informed the below terminal gate operation status.
| Gate Operation | Export | Gate in full | Will open soon | Will open soon | Normal | Will... |
Japan’s first LNG-fueled tugboat was named and launched on 28 September. Built at Kanagawa Dockyard Co and owned by MOL, the tugboat was named ‘Ishin’ after the company’s technology development project, the “Ishin Next – MOL Smart Ship Project”.
Slated for delivery in February 2019 after the completion of outfitting work, Ishin will be the first LNG-fueled tugboat serving Osaka Bay starting in April. It is also the first LNG-fueled tugboat owned by MOL, conforming to the International Code of...
https://safety4sea.com/japans-first-lng-fueled-tugboat-launched/
Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines’ (MOL) dogged pursuit of pioneering smart ships has taken another key step with news one of its ferries has completed a demonstration test, held in association with Rolls-Royce, on a ferry equipped with its Intelligence Awareness System (IAS), designed to aid watch keeping...
https://splash247.com/mol-takes-watch-keeping-into-the-future/
Washington’s simmering trade war with and tariffs against China are creating some unintended consequences for the U.S. military and its relationships with partners in the Pacific, a panel said today.
Speaking Thursday at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., Yuki Tatsumi, co-director of the East Asia Program at the Stimson Center, said President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on steel and aluminum and threats to impose them on automobiles have made Japan and China “kind of strange...