stoking U.S. port strike fears

U.S. port strike fears stoked as ILWU pledges solidarity with ILA

Raising the specter that a threatened Maine to Texas U.S. port strike could ratchet into something even further reaching, Willie Adams, U.S. West Coast dockworkers’ union president on Friday wrote International Longshoremen’s

CSS Asterix departs Pearl Harbor

Canada exercises remaining CSS Asterix option years

CSS Asterix, a combat support ship created by converting and transforming a containership, is to continue to support the Royal Canadian Navy for some years yet. Ottawa-headquartered Inocea Group member Federal Fleet

Manure producers

MOL eyes cow manure as a source of bio-LNG

Ocean shipping accounts for about 2-3% of world GHG emissions. Meantime, cattle are an even larger source, due to the methane they produce during digestion and through manure. They account for the

One of the two retired WSF ferries sold for recycling

Two retired WSF ferries headed to Ecuador for recycling

Washington State Ferries (WSF) reports that two vessels that each spent more than 50 years as part of its fleet are heading to South America. It has entered into purchase and sales

DRIFT Energy ships

VIDEO: DRIFT Energy gets a $6 million boost for its plan to use sailing ships to produce green hydrogen

Plans to produce green fuels using offshore wind are not new. However, Bath, U.K.-based startup DRIFT Energy believes that can be achieved without first having to build a wind farm. Instead, It

OFAC sanctions on al-Jamal network

OFAC sanctions more Houthi-linked ships and another captain

More ships, vessel operators, and a ship’s captain have been sanctioned in a new round of U.S.Treasury sanctions targeting the Houthis and their Iranian enablers. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)

STAX Engineering system

STAX Engineering wins five-year tanker emissions capture contract

From January 2025, California Air Resources Board (CARB) at-berth emissions regulations will apply to tankers calling at the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach. That has brought Long

ILA president warns on East and Gulf Coasr port strike

Fears of Maine to Texas port strike grow

Inbound cargo volume at America’s major container ports could see a near-record surge this month as retailers bring in merchandise ahead of a potential port strike at East Coast and Gulf Coast

marine nuclear power concept graphic

Maersk joins nuclear powered containership study

Maersk is keeping all its green propulsion open, including green methanol, bio-LNG and, maybe at some future date, nuclear. It has signed a joint develop project agreement that sees it join Lloyd’s

Viking Line ship

Viking Lines set to slash emissions in Green Corridor demo

Thursday, August 29, will be Baltic Sea Day and Finland’s Viking Line will mark it by starting a week in which its vessels serving the Turku, Finland, to Stockholm, Sweden, route will

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