Environment
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Solvang heralds ‘game changer’ moment for shipping with encouraging carbon capture tests
Norwegian gas shipowner Solvang is heralding a “game changer” for shipping on the industry’s path to decarbonisation. Solvang has been…
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Wan Hai slapped with fine from the California Air Resources Board
The California Air Resources Board has reached a settlement agreement with Taiwan’s Wan Hai Lines, setting a $680,750 fine over…
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Vancouver to ban scrubber discharges
The Port of Vancouver will limit the discharge of scrubber wash water from next month. As of March 1, ships…
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Koreans collaborate to develop solid oxide fuel cells
The Korean Register (KR) has signed an agreement with STX Energy Solutions (STX ES) and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering…
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32 CMA CGM ships earmarked for biofuel trial
CMA CGM with the support of the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has started biofuel bunkering in Singapore…
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The Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation and the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping join forces
Singapore’s Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation and the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping have formalised a collaboration…
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Ocean Infinity orders its largest marine robotic vessels to date
Ocean Infinity has upped the ante on its robotic vessel fleet, booking its largest shore-operated multipurpose ships ever from shipbuilder…
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Vallianz yard to build first fully electric tug in Asia Pacific
Vallianz has cut steel on the very first all-electric harbour tug in the Asia Pacific region at its shipyard in…
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Mediterranean moves a step closer to becoming an ECA
Countries within the European Union along with Mediterranean littoral states have come together to lodge an official proposal with the…
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Port of Corpus Christi looks to develop green fuels hub on Texas Gulf Coast
The Port of Corpus Christi Authority (PCCA) has entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Apex Clean Energy, funds…
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Solstad Offshore teams with Wärtsilä to slash fleet emissions
Norwegian offshore vessel owner and operator Solstad Offshore has engaged Finish technology company Wärtsilä Finish intending to achieve a 50%…
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Tanker breaking up on Reunion’s eastern shoreline
The Chinese company charged with salvaging the Wakashio bulk carrier, 2020’s most high profile casualty, finished its job in Mauritius…
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Bunker Holding and Renewable Energy Group enter strategic partnership to advance biodiesel use
Bunker Holding Group, a supplier and trader of marine fuels, and Renewable Energy Group (REG), a producer and supplier of…
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Cosco and DSIC float methanol-fuelled VLCC design
China’s Cosco Shipping Energy Transportation (CSET), the tanker operation unit of Cosco Shipping Group, and Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co (DSIC),…
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Wärtsilä and Grimaldi unveil new filter system to tackle ocean microplastics
Finnish technology group Wärtsilä and Italian shipowner Grimaldi Group, have unveiled a new system that uses exhaust gas scrubber washwater…
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New MR tanker design beats IMO’s 2050 targets using fossil fuels
An MR tanker, designed by Sweden’s FKAB Marine Design, has been granted approval in principle (AiP) by Italian classification society…
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Finnish firm develops tech to banish black smoke from ports
A Finnish company has developed and tested technology that could make black smoke in ports a thing of the past.…
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UN closes in on deal to offload oil from dangerous FSO off Yemen
A solution is tentatively to hand to one of the world’s greatest ecological threats posed by a single ship.The United…
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Australia announces new biofouling measures
New requirements for managing biofouling on international vessels arriving in Australia will begin on 15 June 2022. The Department of…
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France debuts another sail cargo ship design
Splash readers get a glimpse today of a new French sail cargo ship, contracted last week during the One Ocean…
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