Drydocks World, the leading service provider in the maritime industry, has announced today the formation of the Dubai Council for Marine and Maritime Industries (DCMMI), a specialized non-profit trade and industry council to promote the interests of the marine and maritime industry in Dubai and the UAE. DCMMI represents a wide cross-section of the UAE’s [...]
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In view of the latest developments on the market concerning a dire need for increasing efficiency of ships, optimising energy consumption and cutting CO2 emissions to meet ever more stringent environmental requirements, World Maritime News Staff have contacted one of the leading market players, namely Lloyd’s Register to discuss some of these topics. Hereby, we [...]
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NYK has been selected by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) as one of only five companies in the FTSE Japan Index of nearly 500 Japanese companies to be included in the Carbon Performance Leadership Index (CPLI). In addition, the company was one of 22 companies to be included in the Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI). [...]
The Danish Maritime Authority is still in the lead of the development of the navigation concept of the future, e-Navigation. Now, the framework is no longer called by EfficienSea, but ACCSEAS. With the conclusion of the EfficienSea project in early 2012, one could fear that the work on e-Navigation would become homeless. But fortunately that [...]
BMT ARGOSS, a subsidiary of BMT Group, has announced its latest research project in partnership with Reading University and OceanExpert Ltd. The 18 month project which is co-funded by the Technology Strategy Board, the UK’s national innovation agency, will look at developing, trialling and implementing commercial decision support systems for offshore operations. Such systems will [...]
![Maersk Line Leads Fuel Switch at Port of Virginia, USA]()
Maersk Line will switch to low-sulfur fuel while at berth for all of its containerships calling the Port of Virginia starting in February. This fuel switch program will help improve air quality in the greater Hampton Roads area by significantly reducing emissions of sulfur and nitrogen oxides and particulate matter. Maersk Line is the [...]
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Next generation solutions to focus on maximising operational performance and safety through user-centred design and simplification. Global marine technology developer Kongsberg Maritime will lead a new research project called ‘Situation Awareness and Decision Support Tools for demanding marine operations’ (SITAWARE), which kicks-off on February 2nd 2012. Part-funded by the Norwegian Research Council and undertaken in [...]
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![StatoilHydro: Oil booms retrieved]()
The deployment of booms to help collect the oil spill in the North Sea has been called off because the slick is too thin for recovery to the collection vessels. During the afternoon of 14 December, ships carrying two oil collection systems were active in the sea areas where the slick was thought to be [...]
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![Container vessel runs into trailing suction hopper dredger W.D. Fairway]()
Royal Boskalis Westminster nv announces that today at around 2.00 PM local time a container vessel ran into its trailer suction hopper dredger W.D. Fairway during dredging operations in Tianjin, China. There were no personal injuries. The vessel is currently stable and the crew is on board.
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Abu Dhabi’s Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC) has awarded a Dh815 million ($222 million) bulk earth-filling contract for its flagship Saadiyat Island project to Belgium’s Jan De Nul. Work will now begin in January on filling some 35 million cubic metres of earth which will be used to provide sculpted landform, enhancing vistas for [...]
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