When commercial vessels are already required to carry an array of advanced modern alerting and locating systems, Chris Hoffman, director of technology strategy at ACR Electronics, outlines the evidence behind growing industry
By Damien Bertin, Business Director, Opsealog After several years of volatility, the offshore support vessel (OSV) sector is experiencing a rare period of relative stability. Supply remains tight and operators are looking
By Bill Moore, CEO, Xona The maritime sector is now a front line in cybersecurity conflict. Nation-state actors are targeting vessels, ports, and shipyards, not just to steal data, but to disrupt
By Brendan Falkowski, Owner, Shipwatcher News Just over the last few months shipbuilding has gone from a forgotten industry in America to routinely making front page headlines. The current world climate has
By Nick Cowley, president of Cathelco The relationship between biofouling management and the maritime industry is a complicated one. Despite the proven benefits of limiting biofouling growth—including emissions reduction, protection of ecosystems,
By Tracy Zea, President & CEO, Waterways Council Inc. (WCI) Niels Bohr, the Danish theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922, said, “Prediction is very difficult, especially about
LNG has created a strong basis in terms of safety, emissions, availability and costs that biomethane and e-methane benefit from, says Lana Sissing, Client Manager at Titan Clean Fuels. While there is
By Adam Dennett, CEO, SpecTec With the age of vessels at a 40-year high ship owners and operators need to act now and use asset management technology combined with a culture of
By Konstantinos Vouroutzis, ABS Senior Project Manager, Global Sustainability Center Greece ABS examines LNG, methanol and ammonia as alternative fuel options for newbuild vessels in the latest technical and operational advisory. Vessel
By Nicholas Ball, CEO, XFuel With only 15 years to eliminate the majority of its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the shipping industry is facing a challenge to deliver decarbonization at an affordable
