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Mississippi River reopens as bridge deemed safe
The Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee, was reopened on Friday after the Coast Guard deemed it safe for maritime traffic.…
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Digital technology partnership achieves significant reduction in vessel opex
Kongsberg Digital and MAN Energy Solutions formed a partnership in 2019 to develop a collaborative platform which would bring together…
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InterManager seals deal for 1m Johnson & Johnson shots, seeks government approval
InterManager, the association for third party managers, has come good on its vow at the end of last month to…
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325,000 dwt giant bulker gets the wind rotor treatment, Vale keen on further sail investments
The largest ship to date has had wind propulsion kit fixed to its deck. Pan Ocean’s 325,000 dwt very large…
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Clarins signs up to ship cargo on Neoline’s sail-powered ships
French cosmetics company Clarins has joined other French firms in signing up to ship its cargo on compatriot Neoline’s new…
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US agricultural exports disrupted as Mississippi River closed near Memphis due to fracture in bridge support beam
A bridge spanning the Mississippi River from Tennessee on one side to Arkansas on the other has been closed after…
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Klaveness Combination Carriers eyes carbon capture
Norwegian owner Klaveness Combination Carriers (KCC) has joined a new carbon capture project called CCShip led by compatriot SINTEF Energy…
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Vaccination roadmap launched to quicken seafarer jab rollout
As the US, Netherlands and other nations begin to roll out vaccines to all seafarers, the International Chamber of Shipping…
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Egypt details plans to widen and deepen the southern part of the Suez Canal
Egypt has this week announced plans to widen and deepen the southern part of the Suez Canal where the containership…
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Synergy Marine: The technical partnership model for shipmanagement
Founded 15 years ago, Singapore’s Synergy Marine Group has grown very fast to become one of the world’s largest shipmanagers…
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Australian-first Covid vaccinations for foreign seafarers in Port Botany
In an Australian-first, New South Wales Health will provide Covid-19 vaccinations to a small number of foreign seafarers onboard vessels…
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Dutch to vaccinate close to 50,000 seafarers
A Covid-19 vaccination program for seafarers will begin in the Netherlands in mid-June, the Royal Association of Netherlands Shipowners (KVNR)…
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A deepfelt worry for those at sea
Carl Martin Faannessen, the CEO of Noatun Maritime, on the danger of the mental ‘infinite loop’ which leads to lack…
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Demonstration shows ease of methanol bunkering by barge
Waterfront Shipping, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Methanex Corporation, has demonstrated the ease of barge-to-ship bunkering as part of the launch…
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Canadian researchers tout nuclear-renewable hybrid solution for shipping
A team of researchers from Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Canada, claims that a small-scale nuclear reactor used in combination…
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We have played this plague game before
Carl Martin Faannessen, the CEO of Noatun Maritime, uses a phone game to hammer home that crewing is not good…
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Singapore firm presses ahead with air lubrication system
Classification body Bureau Veritas (BV) has awarded approval in principle (AIP) to the air lubrication system developed by Singapore-based GILLS,…
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DP World set to run DR Congo’s first deepsea Atlantic port
Dubai-headquartered terminal operator DP World has amended its 30-year port concession deal with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as…
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MR tankers likely to gain from US pipeline cyber attack
Product tanker owners are set to gain from a cyber attack on one of the US’s largest pipelines. The Colonial…
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Crew change dagger in the back
Steven Jones, founder of the Seafarers Happiness Index, is acutely worried about the plunging morale at sea. In asking seafarers…
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