Safe Bulkers will install Erma First BWTS fleetwide

NOVEMBER 8, 2017 — Monaco headquartered Safe Bulkers, Inc. (NYSE: SB) reports that it has reached an agreement with the manufacturer to install Erma First ballast water treatment systems (BWTS) in all

Royal Caribbean to pilot cruise ship fuel cell system

NOVEMBER 8, 2017 — ABB is to deliver what will be the first fuel cell system to provide an energy source for a cruise ship. The 100 kW pilot system will be

ICS vision: zero CO2 emissions from shipping

NOVEMBER 7, 2017 – The 2017 UN Climate Change Conference (COP 23) opened in Bonn, Germany, this week. The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), representing owners controlling over 80 percent of the

Cloud based solution eases EU MRV compliance

NOVEMBER 3, 2017 — To help shipowners meet the European Union’s Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) regulation that comes into force January 1, 2018, Rolls-Royce has added a cloud-based fuel consumption and

ECSA says IMO will adopt ambitious strategy for CO2 reductions

OCTOBER 30, 2017 — European Shipowners are confident that IMO will be able to deliver an ambitious strategy on reduction of shippping CO2 emissions for adoption by IMO Member States at the

Stena Line plugs in to shoreside power at another Swedish port

OCTOBER 25, 2017 — Ferry giant Stena Line is now connecting up its two vessels M/S Skåne and M/S Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to the electricity grid during calls at the Port of Trelleborg, Sweden.

IMO: We’re run by countries, not corporations

OCTOBER 25, 2017 —A London headquartered operation called InfluenceMap aims, among other things, to accurately assess, rank and communicate the extent to which corporations are lobbying climate and energy policy worldwide. Its

Environmentalists urge slow-steaming to cut ship GHG emissions

OCTOBER 20, 2017 — A study to be presented to IMO next week indicates that greenhouse gas emissions from three ship types – containerships, bulkers and tankers – could be reduced by

Another BWMS gains U.S. Coast Guard Type Approval

OCTOBER 19, 2017 — The U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Center has issued the sixth U.S. Coast Guard Ballast Water Management System Type Approval Certificate to ERMA FIRST ESK Engineering Solutions S.A.

Norwegian Cruise Line retrofits two more ships with scrubbers

OCTOBER 18, 2017 — Norwegian Cruise Line now has eight cruise ships equipped with Exhaust Gas Cleaning systems, following the successful retrofitting of scrubbers on two of its ships, Norwegian Sun and

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