Shipping and logistics company GAC Norway, part of GAC Group, has joined Norwegian hydrogen energy project HyValue, as part of its commitment to sustainability and accelerating decarbonisation across…
https://www.offshore-energy.biz/gac-norway-onboard-hydrogen-energy-research-project/
https://shippingpodcast.com/186-lotte-g-lundberg-director-danish-maritime-fund/
Researchers from the Swinburne University of Technology are exploring the use of wave energy converters to absorb and reflect the damaging waves that hammer Australia’s vulnerable coastlines. The…
Automation is here to stay, whether warehouse workers like it or not. As of 2019, the market for warehouse automation –– devices that can pick, sort and simplify other tasks for human workers –– was worth around $15 billion, and that could double by 2026.
Conventional wisdom holds that a new wave of robots will render the U.S.’s 1.5 million warehouse and storage employees obsolete, tipping the scales in favor of employers who could theoretically replace their workers with a snap of their fingers.
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/warehouse-workers-weigh-in-on-automation-in-the-workplace
Trucking trends of 2021: Buying growth, expanding capabilities
(Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)It’s the end of the year and for the trucking industry, disruption, record profits and new opportunities are all major themes to consider when predicting trends to watch in 2022. The trucking expansions into the LTL space and final mile and acquisitions of regional carriers indicate strategic adjustments for large trucking carriers, which traditionally focused on the middle-mile space. Brokerage...
Moving into 2022, sustainability is top of mind for consumers and logistics companies alike. Logistics has historically been a high carbon intensity industry, as transportation of all kinds accounts for approximately 29% of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. That makes transportation the largest single contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.
With natural disasters on the rise and climate change dominating the news cycle, the public is...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/saving-the-planet-and-protecting-bottom-lines-go-hand-in-hand
Meet Mr Maritime Simulator himself and learn all about Bridge Resource Management, BRM
People don’t like change. Famous words of the interviewee in this episode, Hans Hederström, Consultant, Marine Consultancy Group.
Listen to Captain Hederström and the impact he has had on the development of maritime safety and especially Bridge resource management. We get to hear the story of how the Center for Simulator Maritime Training, CSMART, in Almere, the Netherlands, came about and how that was a dream...
https://shippingpodcast.com/171-hans-hederstrom-consultant-marine-consultancy-group/
MarISOT (TUAS) and Fraunhofer CML in strategic collaboration for advanced research in autonomous shipping.
The extensive and state of the art research delivered at TUAS on the MarISOT technology attracted the attention of Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics (CML) and opened opportunities for strategic research collaboration on the field of...
An ambitious target to make 5% of the world ocean shipping fleet run on zero-emission fuels by 2030 has been welcomed by the global shipping industry.
The global trade association for ship operators, the International Chamber of Shipping, welcomed the launch of Mission Innovation’s ‘Mission for Shipping’ earlier this week.
The ‘Mission for Shipping’ aims to support public-private cooperation...
A new study by the open-access publisher Frontiers sets out guidelines to maximize the benefits of reef restoration, not only for the coral ecosystem but also to protect local communities from coastal flooding. Researchers simulated waves travelling over different reef profiles at various stages of restoration and found that to reduce the risk of flooding, the upper fore reef and middle reef flat, typically characterized by physically-robust coral species, should be targeted for restoration.
New...