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The development plan features the installation of a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel in offshore Brazil. This FPSO will have oil and gas processing capacities of 225,000 barrels per day and 12MMcm/d, respectively. SBM Offshore has been awarded for the lease and operation contract in July/2021. The platform will be deployed approximately 180 kilometres offshore Rio de Janeiro and the delivery of the FPSO is expected in the second half of 2024. Variable frequency drives...
After a period of restrictions due to COVID-19 and the cancellation of many exhibitions, JRC | Alphatron Marine is once again proud to present her products, innovations, and solutions at SMM, one of the world’s largest exhibitions. At the 30th edition of this exhibition they will show a total package with professional deepsea and inland equipment, demonstrate their new modular consoles and introduce the new AlphaRiverPilot MFS. Motion control system At SMM they will present their latest...
The Head of Business Intelligence of the Port Authority of Valencia (PAV), Manuel García, participates in the Seminar ‘International Friendship Cities on Marine Economy and Port Cooperation’. China accounts for 15% of Valenciaport’s total container traffic. Over the last 10 years, Valenciaport has handled five million import and export containers (TEUs) with the Asian country. China is Valenciaport’s main trading partner and represents 15% of the total container t...
Astrup Fearnley, Veracity by DNV, and Microsoft Norway joined forces at this year’s Nor-Shipping to demonstrate how digital innovation can empower industry change, while connecting with tomorrow’s talent today. Lars-Henrik Folke Ossum, Chief Digital Officer at Astrup Fearnley, reveals all. “This was partnership in action – showing how different organisations, industry professionals, students, and a key ocean business arena can work together to address the maritime challe...
Through a new partnership with Hapag-Lloyd, a global liner shipping company, Forto has launched a biofuel program for ocean shipping customers who seek to reduce their transport emissions. Customers booking full container load (FCL) sea freight shipments with Forto can now add the use of advanced biofuel to their bookings, effectively reducing 100% of their transport’s greenhouse gas emissions. As Hapag-Lloyd has extended their biofuel strategy to work with selected key partners, Forto ha...
Crowley has chosen international business sustainability ratings provider EcoVadis to assess its value chain for its suppliers’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) impacts. A global provider of supply chain solutions, Crowley is the first U.S.-based company in maritime and logistics to partner with EcoVadis on its value chain solutions. Leveraging EcoVadis’ unparalleled technology capabilities, Crowley and its supplier-contractor base will be able to receive assessments of th...
NYK Group company MTI Co., Ltd., Japan Marine United Corporation, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group company Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., Furuno Electric Co., Ltd., Japan Radio Co., Ltd., BEMAC Corporation, ClassNK, and NAPA Ltd., have come together to establish the ‘Maritime and Ocean Digital Engineering’ (MODE) cooperation programme at the University of Tokyo from October 1. The programme aims to promote and enhance digital engineering technology and skills for the mari...
To implement the company's environmental protection policy and carbon reduction goals, Evergreen Marine Corp. has completed a systematic inspection and calculation of greenhouse gas emission inventories for its business operations, including its global operating fleet, office buildings, and container terminals in Taiwan. The methodology and results of the survey were recently certified by BSI (British Standards Institution) in compliance with ISO14064-1:2018 and the GHG Protocol in late July....
The launch of a new report by DNV, the world’s renowned classification society’s latest Maritime Forecast to 2050, part of the Energy Transition Outlook (ETO) suite of reports. Conceived to help shipowners navigate the technologies and fuels needed to meet global greenhouse gas (GHG) targets, the report features an updated carbon risk management framework, including a new ‘decarbonisation stairway’ model to help owners map a path to sustainability. The 80-page report ai...
Artemis Technologies states its commitment to increasing diversity in the maritime sector with landmark signing of the UK’s Women in Maritime pledge. The significant milestone comes as the world pioneer maritime design and applied technologies company welcomes new female engineer as the 70th employee of its Belfast workforce. Gintare Vaiciuvenaite, a former student of the University of Edinburgh, joins Artemis as a Graduate Embedded Software Engineer and will work on the further developme...
Neptune Energy has announced the award of a £10 million three-year vessel services contract to Sentinel Marine, in order to provide offshore support for its operated Cygnus gas field in the UK southern North Sea. The contract, awarded following a competitive tendering process, will see Sentinel Marine continue to deploy its Multi Role, Emergency Response & Rescue (MRERR) vessel, Cygnus Sentinel, on the gas field. The vessel will also support an upcoming drilling campaign on the Cygnus...
Rolls-Royce presents under the claim ‘Pioneering the journey to net zero’ new MTU marine solutions for propulsion, automation, and service at SMM, the international trade fair for the maritime industry, in Hamburg from 6 to 9 September 2022. NautIQ marine automation Rolls-Royce experts will take visitors on a journey toward climate neutrality from diesel engines with exhaust gas after treatment and gas engines to their use with sustainable fuels and hybrid systems to methanol engin...
This morning, the Advisory Committee for the Port of Sagunto, which includes the Sagunto City Council, the Port Authority of Valencia (APV), and the Valencian Regional Government, met, chaired by the Mayor of Sagunto, Darío Moreno. At the meeting, the bases were agreed upon for defining the competition of ideas for the port-city interaction project in the northern area of the Port of Sagunto, with the intention of launching the tender in September. Specifically, the uses and spatial scop...
The Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh, has inaugurated the Expert Level Planning Team (ELPT) of the Agency to draft the National Maritime Security Strategy (NMSS) to sustain the Agency’s successes in the fight against piracy. Jamoh also commended the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) for its technical support to Nigeria by assigning facilitators to assist the country. Security, Safety, and Shipping &nb...
International shipping accounts for approximately 3% of global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, and this will increase in a business-as-usual scenario. To decarbonise the maritime industry, there will be a massive need for green fuels and associated technologies. In particular, scalable zero-emission fuels (SZEF) such as green hydrogen and green ammonia are considered the most promising fuels for shipping’s energy transition. Author's quote “In the past years, the global maritime i...
For 15 days, the Port of Valencia has welcomed a group of students from Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, Bolivia and the Dominican Republic from the ‘Train For Trade’ programme, organised by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), who are being trained in port management by experts from Valenciaport and the Valencia port community. The closing ceremony of this course was attended by the president of the Port Authority of Valencia (PAV), Aurelio Martínez; the...
Maersk successfully completed the first India-Bangladesh cross-border logistics of containerised cargo using the inland waterways of the Indo-Bangladesh Protocol Route for Coca-Cola Bangladesh Beverages. By transporting 50 containers (TEUs or Twenty Feet Equivalent Units) from Kolkata in India to a river port near Dhaka in Bangladesh on a barge on the National Waterways 1 on the India side, Maersk has created a new opportunity for customers to use the faster, more reliable inland waterways solu...
“Carbon Capture on the Ocean” (CC-Ocean) project was conducted in cooperation with Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (“K” Line) and Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) has received the “Marine Engineering of the Year 2021 (Doko Memorial Award)” from the Japan Institute of Marine Engineering (JIME). The award was received in recognition of the world’s first marine-based CO2 capture...
A group of thirty master's students from the Delft University of Technology visits the Ports of Genoa as a model for best practices. Full immersion in Genoa on the part of a group of students in Marine Engineering, Naval Architecture, and Offshore and Dredging Engineering from The Netherlands on a study trip to Italy, organised by the Delft University maritime technology study association, with on-site inspections of Italy's ports and shipyards. Upcoming energy transition Delft University's v...
IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim on Friday (22 July) welcomed the signing of an agreement between, the Russian Federation, Türkiye, Ukraine, and the United Nations to establish a humanitarian maritime corridor to allow ships to export critical cargoes of grain and foodstuffs from Ukraine. The agreement was signed in Istanbul, Türkiye after several weeks of talks. IMO participated as part of the UN delegation. Much-needed grain Mr. Lim attended the signing ceremony in Istanbul. "I am...
GoodFuels has successfully completed its first bio-bunkering for a large passenger ship. This was done in partnership with Carnival Corporation’s AIDA Cruises brand, marking an important step forward to achieving sustainability in the cruise industry. AIDAprima, a Hyperion-class cruise ship, was refuelled with GoodFuels’ sustainable biofuels during a visit to the port of Rotterdam. The trial took place while the vessel was on a seven-day cruise, visiting Hamburg, Southampton, Le H...
SBM Offshore is pleased to announce it has completed the project financing of FPSO ONE GUYANA for a total of US$1.75 billion. The project financing was secured by a consortium of 15 international banks. The Company expects to draw the loan in full, phased over the construction period of the FPSO. Project loan The financing will become non-recourse once the FPSO is completed and the pre-completion guarantee has been released. The project loan is in line with the duration of the...
The president of the Port Authority of Valencia (PAV), Aurelio Martínez, took part in an informative breakfast organised by ASECAM. Martínez indicated that “We are working on a new Strategic Plan for the Sagunto area which will involve the participation of the port community.” He assures that “We have to think about the future needs of the port and begin to study a new expansion of the Port of Sagunto.” The president of the Port Authority of Valencia (PAV),...
Ingeteam has started manufacturing the first units of its new INGECON H2 C-lyzer converter in Sesma (Navarre), for the Green H2 sector. The first orders for the green hydrogen converters will be installed in Belgium, California (in the United States of America - USA) and Bizkaia (Spain). INGECON H2 C-lyzer converters Ingeteam’s INGECON H2 C-lyzer converters are responsible for supplying direct current Ingeteam’s INGECON H2 C-lyzer converters are responsible for supplying direct c...
On 13th July 2022, the Chairman & CEO of CULINES Mr. Raymond Chen visited Saigon Newport Corporation (hereinafter referred to as SNP) with team members of Network Planning & Cooperation, Trade, and Operation. President - Mr. Thuan and Vice President - Mr. Quy of SNP, along with Department Directors welcomed CULINES and held a meeting. During the meeting, the two parties exchanged ideas on deepening cooperation in areas such as shipping and value-added logistics services. Both will as al...
DESMI has installed, approximately, 700 OptiSave™ systems which altogether have generated accumulated CO2 reductions corresponding to 1-million-tonnes CO2. This equals what a 16,000-hectare Rain Forest consumes a year. DESMI's Energy Saving Solution, named OptiSave™, offers simple power management for energy efficiency compliance. When installing a pump, the normal procedure is to have it run at full speed; however, with the OptiSave™ system installed, the pump will save fuel...
HyCC has launched Project H2era to construct a 500-megawatt green hydrogen plant in the Amsterdam port area. The project, launched in cooperation with the Port of Amsterdam, is a major step forward in the development of the regional hydrogen economy to help decarbonise industry and mobility. Green hydrogen “The use of green hydrogen is crucial to reduce emissions from industries such as steel, chemicals, and aviation,” says Marcel Galjee, Managing Directo...
Unifeeder is delighted to announce that they have signed a three-year deal with technology company - ZeroNorth, as part of their green agenda strategy. The deal will see Unifeeder implement the full suite of services included in ZeroNorth’s platform, as well as ClearLynx’s bunker solution, as part of the company’s ambitious decarbonisation efforts and green agenda strategy. Unifeeder – ZeroNorth partnership The partnership with ZeroNorth will give the Unifeeder f...
ClassNK has issued an Approval in Principle (AiP) for an ammonia-fuelled tugboat (A-Tug) jointly developed by Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line) and IHI Power Systems Co., Ltd. Ammonia is expected to be used as ship fuel for decarbonisation since it does not emit CO2 when combusted. Meanwhile, adequate safety measures are imperative as it has been pointed out that ammonia is toxic to humans and corrosive to materials. Ammonia-fuelled ships ClassNK has been involved in projects aiming fo...
X-Press Feeders is committed to reducing its emissions to reach zero by 2050. It is focused on improving the fuel efficiency of the fleet through various operational and technical initiatives. X-Press Feeders' main aim is to have a holistic strategy to reduce our emissions. Through these initiatives, X-Press Feeders aim to achieve at least 1% improvement per year, scaling up to 20% emissions savings by 2035, and 50% by 2040, on track to hit zero by 2050. Vessel performance This strate...