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Nautilus Labs forms partnership to shift datasets from ship to shore
The American shipping artificial intelligence leader Nautilus Labs has teamed with fuel consumption specialist Insatech Marine to jointly deliver end-to-end instrumentation and…
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Norwegian flag to allow bareboat charter registration and deregistration
In a bid to become more competitive, the Norwegian Maritime Authority has announced that it is making regulatory amendments to allow…
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StormGeo: ‘We want to get everyone looking at the shipping universe from the same perspective’
StormGeo, a Bergen-based weather intelligence provider, has plans to establish a shared platform with ports, ships, shippers all sharing the…
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Norsepower to install tiltable rotor sails on Sea-Cargo vessel
Finnish auxiliary wind propulsion system provider Norsepower has entered into an agreement with Sea-Cargo, a logistics provider in the North…
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Australia cracks down on crew changes
Australia is cracking down on ships where seafarers are working beyond their original contract lengths. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority…
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Captain Harry Subramaniam, India’s great seafarer mentor, dies from Covid-19
One of the most influential people in Indian seafarer training circles died early today from Covid-19. Tributes have been paid…
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BIMCO launches Covid-19 crew change clause
International shipping association BIMCO has launched a special Covid-19 crew change clause for time charter parties. The new clause is…
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Dutch Safety Board delivers MSC Zoe verdict
The Dutch Safety Board yesterday urged large containerships to avoid using a shipping channel through an environmentally sensitive, shallow sea…
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Class NK’s Fujiwara becomes IACS chair
Class NK’s Koichi Fujiwara has been elected as the next chairman of the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS), taking…
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Ocean Technologies Group takes over Marlins
Rapidly growing Ocean Technologies Group has added maritime English testing to its array of learning products, buying Marlins from V.Group. …
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European consortium bids to fast track commercial pathway to climate neutral methanol
A consortium of European maritime research and technology firms have launched the FASTWATER project to demonstrate the feasibility of retrofit…
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UK to convene international crew change summit
Marking the International Day of the Seafarer, the UK government has today announced it will host the first international summit…
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Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping opens in Copenhagen
The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping was opened today in Copenhagen, featuring some of the biggest names…
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The nurse who decided to go to sea
Women working at sea are a rarity. A woman captaining a merchant ship rarer still. So with today marking the…
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What keeps me up at night
Concluding our series looking at issues shipping faces thanks to Covid-19, Graham Porter, the chairman of Tiger Group Investments, writes…
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Welfare 2.0 report highlights lack of funding for human factor start-ups
Satellite communications giant Inmarsat has tapped Splash columnist Nick Chubb, the founder of consultancy Thetius, to pen a research paper…
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Weekly Broker: Dry bulk on the run
The decent transaction flow in the second hand bulker sale and purchase market continued for another week with the rates…
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The maritime tech lessons from Covid
“In Norway there is saying that there is no one in such a hurry as a dead fish so you…
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Bulk carrier takes out Panamanian rail bridge
The Panama Canal Authority is investigating how a bulk carrier, the , ploughed into a railway bridge while under tow…
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Dubai airport to reopen for crew changes
Dubai is set to bring major relief to the crew change crunch with news that its airports will reopen to…
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