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Maersk Supports Imports And Distribution Of Medical Aid In India To Fight COVID Crisis

Maersk Air Freight

A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk), an integrated container logistics company, is supporting the society fight the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in India by facilitating the logistics and supply chain of medical relief. Maersk has offered its ocean transportation service to institutions and organisations participating in medical relief at a nominal rate of 1 USD per container. All air freight shipments to India facilitated by Maersk are being done on a zero-profit basis.

When the second wave of...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/maersk-supports-imports-and-distribution-of-medical-aid-in-india-to-fight-covid-crisis/

COVID Cloud Continues To Dampen Dirty Tanker Market; Recovery Surfaces For Clean Tankers: VesselsValue

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Using VesselsValue Trade, we will assess the current status of the Tanker market, using historical and current AIS derived supply and demand data.

Dirty Tankers: Demand and Rates continue to fall

The impacts of COVID for the dirty Tanker market are still very present as rates continue to deteriorate into May. After making a small recovery towards the end of March, VLCC rates dropped again at the start of May to below OPEX, resulting in over a 100% year on year decline. Alongside weak earnings,...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/covid-cloud-continues-to-dampen-dirty-tanker-market-recovery-surfaces-for-clean-tankers-vesselsvalue/

Seafarers’ Relief Fund Reaches $530000 In Pledges Towards COVID-19 Seafarer Crisis

Seafarers’ Relief Fund Reaches $530,000 In Pledges Towards COVID-19 Seafarer Cr

The Seafarers International Relief Fund (SIRF), established by leading seafarer welfare charities and the wider shipping industry to support seafarers and their families devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has collected $530,000 in pledges so far, and thanks to The Seafarers’ Charity’s agile and established grant-making processes, has already issued grants of almost $400,000 to help those worst affected.

The first three SIRF grants will provide funds to three seafarer charities, Stella Maris,...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/seafarers-relief-fund-reaches-530000-in-pledges-towards-covid-19-seafarer-crisis/

Venice Is Sinking – But Flying Electric Boats Can Be The Solution

Candela P-30 is an electric ferry that builds on Candela's technology developed for the leisure boats model C-7

“Moto Ondoso” – wake damage – from thousands of motorboats is slowly eroding the iconic buildings of Venice. A Swedish-designed electric boat that flies above the water might be the answer to the city’s problems.

Venice faces a difficult choice between using fast motorboats on the canals and protecting the city’s iconic cultural heritage. Venice has a unique traffic system where the primary means of transportation is boats. This, however, does not exempt the city from traffic-related noise...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/venice-is-sinking-but-flying-electric-boats-can-be-the-solution/

WinGD Ensures Future-Ready Engine Design Through Clean Fuel Toolbox

WinGD’s Engine Research & Innovation Centre, Switzerland

In support of its strong commitment to a decarbonised future for shipping, engine developer WinGD has outlined the extensive investments it has made in recent years to ensure readiness for next-generation shipping fuels. In a white paper titled ‘Future ready: Extending the engine research toolbox to validate clean shipping fuels’ published, the company details the engine research toolbox it has amassed, including sophisticated testing facilities for engines and fuel systems, cutting-edge...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/wingd-ensures-future-ready-engine-design-through-clean-fuel-toolbox/

Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Open To Negotiation With Ever Given Owners

EVER GIVEN Successfully Refloated, Normal Transits Of Suez Canal Resume

As the painstaking litigation regarding the SCA demanded compensation for the Ever Given ship grounding continues, the Canal Authorities have revealed that there is still room for negotiation.

Initially, the SCA had demanded a compensation of $916 million which they reduced to $600 million later. However, the Japanese shipping company Shoei Kisen Kaisha which owns the vessel has refused to pay it citing a lack of evidence in favor of such an enormous claim.

Moreover, lawyers of the shipping...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/suez-canal-authority-sca-open-to-negotiation-with-ever-given-owners/

Alfa Laval PureBallast 3 Ex Deckhouse Solutions Receives Design Approval From DNV

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DNV has issued a Type Approval Design Certificate for Alfa Laval PureBallast 3 Ex deckhouse solutions. This is a major achievement, representing the first design approval for the installation of ballast water treatment systems on the weather deck. For customers and system integrators, it will mean time and money saved in the final approval process on board.

Approved enclosure and internal installation

Placing ballast water treatment systems in a deck-mounted enclosure is necessary on most modern...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/alfa-laval-pureballast-3-ex-deckhouse-solutions-receives-design-approval-from-dnv/

Sri Lanka Prepares For Major Oil Spill From Burning Ship Off Colombo

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The Singapore registered ship X-Press Pearl that has been blazing near the Colombo port is still burning for straight 7 days and Sri Lankan Authorities are racing against time to prevent an environmental catastrophe.

The ship has 25 tons of nitric acid cargo which is packaged in over 1480 containers, some of which have overturned into the sea and are washing up ashore. The fire has now spread to the quarterdeck and is affecting the ship’s bridge.

The Navy has alerted the public and the fishermen...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/sri-lanka-prepares-for-major-oil-spill-from-burning-ship-off-colombo/

To Reduce Emissions, All Ships In Port Must Switch To Environmentally Friendly Energy Sources: Port Of Tallinn

Port of tallin

The Port of Tallinn’s goal is to achieve climate neutrality in all its port activities by 2050 at the latest. In the case of the port, the action with the most significant positive impact for the environment is to supply the energy needs of moored ships with green electricity, instead of diesel engines, or to switch ships to alternative, more environmentally friendly fuels, which would reduce emissions by up to half.

In cooperation with the Estonian Maritime Academy of Tallinn University of...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/to-reduce-emissions-all-ships-in-port-must-switch-to-environmentally-friendly-energy-sources-port-of-tallinn/

Photos: Oil Spill Threat From Blazing Cargo Ship Off Colombo

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The Sri Lankan authorities have been expecting oil spills from a Singapore flagged vessel that has been blazing in fire off Colombo port for almost 6 days now. The wind and the weather conditions have accelerated the fire which was initially taken into control after the fire erupted.

At present, the Navy, the Coast Guard and other departments of the Sri Lankan Government are working in tandem to put off the fire and avoid chemical and oil spill from the containers floating around the vessel.

As...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/photos-oil-spill-threat-from-blazing-cargo-ship-off-colombo/

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