U-Ming Marine Transport Corporation (U-Ming) and wind propulsion technology provider Anemoi Marine Technologies are pleased to announce the successful completion of the rotor sail installation on U-Ming’s ‘Grand Pioneer’, a 325,000 dwt very large ore carrier (VLOC)....
Korean Register (KR) has awarded a third-party verification certificate for a 'Greenhouse Gas Reduction Calculation Methodology' developed by HMM, South Korea’s largest shipping company. The methodology is based on the EU's Renewable Energy Directive II, a regulatory...
According to Danske Rederier (Danish Shipping), the EU Directive on pollution from ships and the introduction of sanctions for illegal pollution are to be revised, as part of the Commission's overall plan for sustainable shipping. The overarching goal is zero...
The first phase of the EverLoNG project, an multinational-funded trial of ship-based carbon capture and storage (CCS) has now concluded, with promising results. The prototype system, developed in the Netherlands by Carbotreat, was installed on the Seapeak Arwa, an...
Dutch chemical tanker operator Chemship has commissioned its first ship with wind assisted ship propulsion, which the company believes will make the 'Chemical Challenger' the first such tanker to be equipped with sustainable wind technology. The ship will serve on...
Seatrium has secured an order to retrofit a full-scale, turnkey Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) system on a vessel owned by Norwegian company Solvang. The full-scale retrofit of a 7MW Wärtsilä CCS system, which is believed to be the first such retrofit, will be...
BIMCO, together with Bangladesh, India, Norway, Pakistan and the ICS, has submitted a paper ahead of IMO's 81st Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC81) meeting in March 2024. The paper highlights the need to solve possible conflicting requirements of the Hong...
As IMO member states prepare for negotiations on a GHG emissions pricing mechanism at MEPC 81 in March 2024, the World Shipping Council (WSC) is bringing to the table a proposal on greenhouse gas pricing that it believes can help solve the conundrum of bridging the...
The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Maritime Administrator has awarded an Approval in Principle (AiP) to Anemoi Marine Technologies (Anemoi) for its rotor sail systems following a review of two bespoke configurations of the wind-propulsion technology. Rotor...
The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Maritime Administrator has awarded an Approval in Principle (AiP) to Anemoi Marine Technologies (Anemoi) for rotor sail systems following a review of two bespoke configurations of the wind-assisted propulsion technology....
The Port of Hamburg has awarded a contract to Baltic Workboats in Estonia for a new environmentally-friendly 18m pilot transfer vessel, with an option for a second. The new Hamburg Pilot 1 is valued at about €3m, and the order was placed following a competitive...
NYK reports that for a fourth consecutive year, CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project), an international environmental non-profit organisation, has recognised NYK as an 'A' List company for climate change. CDP’s annual environmental disclosure and scoring process is widely...
New results from a behaviour-focused sustainable shipping trial undertaken by Ridgebury Tankers are said to have raised the bar for maritime decarbonisation projects, with ships’ crews making fuel-saving decisions 21% more often. The six-month trial achieved...
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