While IMO has announced an enhanced common ambition to reach net-zero GHG emissions from international shipping by “close to 2050,” some influential cargo shippers don’t want to wait that long. They’re set
Raising disconcerting memories of a string of incidents in 2018, leading fuel testing services provider VPS has identified a new marine fuel contamination issue in Houston. Eleven vessels using this fuel have
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on July 6 signed a package of bills that included one which, according to his office, “will enable New Jersey’s first offshore wind project, Ocean Wind 1,
U.S. District Judge Alfred Bennett has ordered Stavanger, Norway, based Clipper Shipping AS to pay a $1.5 million fine after the company pleaded guity to discharging oily bilge water from the tanker
The response to the Port Newark RO/RO fire that broke out aboard the Grimaldi Group’s Grande Costa d’Avorio on the evening of July 5 continued over the weekend. Capt. Zeita Merchant, the
The methanol momentum keeps rolling along. Esvagt has reached an agreement with Ørsted that will see it build a sister ship to the world’s first methanol-fueled SOV (service operation vessel). Ordered at
Wärtsilä ANC (Automation, Navigation And Control Systems) uses its “floating laboratory” vessel Ahti to enable customers to test its solutions, and those of its tech partners, in a seaborne environment. The company
The deadly car carrier fire aboard the Grimaldi Deep Sea RO/RO vessel Grande Costa d’Avorio that cost two Newark firefighters their lives continued to burn today and seemed likely to continue burning
This week’s meeting of the International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC 80) saw member states adopt the 2023 IMO Strategy on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships. The strategy fell
Energy major BP has plans to deliver a 100,000 barrels of biofuel a day by 2030 to help decarbonize transportation. That target was announced yesterday by BP’s vice president of next generation