Drones, A step towards Environment Protection
The Norwegian Maritime Authority has deployed Drones to measure sulfur pollutants. These Drones are highly equipped with sensors to measure sulphur content from the exhaust...
Wardha and Jalna to get a dry port – by June 2019
The Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust discloses plans to establish by June 2019, two new dry ports at Wardha and Jalna located in Maharashtra. The...
INTERNATIONAL MARITIME CONFERENCE & EXIHIBITION – INMARCO 2018
The Institute of Marine Engineers (India) organized an International Conference - INMARCO 2018, on the theme “Maritime Sector - Charting New Course” from November...
GLOBAL MARITIME TRADE AFFECTED
World maritime trade lost momentum in 2018 as heightened uncertainty, escalating tariff tensions between the US and China and mounting concerns over other trade...
US Navy seized illegal arms in the Gulf of Aden
The US Navy has seized an un-flagged skiff stuffed with hundreds of automate riffles in The Gulf of Aden, and has handed the sailors...
AUTONOMOUS MARITIME ECOSYSTEM ONSET
The changes towards autonomous shipping seems to be a long one. The process is rather incremental and can be achieved in small steps and...
CHINA SHIPS WORLD’S FIRST “SMART” VLCC
China’s largest shipbuilder Dalian Shipbuilding Industries (DSIC) has delivered the world’s first “smart” Very Large Crude Oil Carrier to China Merchants Energy Shipping (CMES).
The...
NYK TO BUILD METHANOL – FUELED CHEMICAL TANKER WITH GREEN LOAN
NYK will obtain 2 billion yen from Taiyo Life Insurance Company as a green loan to particularly invest in the building of NYK’s first...
Oil Spill near Corsica, Two Merchant Ships Collided
The collision of two merchant ships near Corsica wreaked to oil spilling more than 2.5 miles in the Mediterranean Sea.
The collision happened on October...
SULPHUR 2020 – Lowering of Sulphur oxide emissions by 2020
Oxides of Sulphur (SOx) are long known to be severely damaging to people’s respiratory health and they are responsible for harmful acid rain causing...
