Although the year draws to a close and embraces the holiday spirit, the global energy transition shows no signs of slowing down. In the week behind us, we witnessed that governments spare no expense...
[By Todd Woody] As the International Seabed Authority meets in person this month for the first time in nearly two years, global opposition to deep-sea mining is building, and the United Nations-affiliated organization faces dissent among its member states over a rush to enact regulations to allow seabed...
Van Oord has laid the keel for its new 130-meter hybrid cable-laying vessel Calypso. […] The post Keel laid for Van Oord’s new cable-layer appeared first on Offshore Energy. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] [ad_2] News...
For the first time in years, the Pacific Northwest Dungeness Crab fishery has opened on time - but the scramble for the region's most valuable catch is creating safety concerns, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Over the first week of the season, Coast Guard crews...
On 8 December, the US House of Representatives passed the Ocean Shipping Reform Act that will address the ongoing supply chain crisis. The post US House passes Ocean Shipping Reform Act appeared...
Russia has ratified the Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks, which entered into force in 2015. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the ratification law after it was passed by both houses of Russia's parliament. The convention places placing strict liability on shipowners for locating, marking and...
US ship owner and operator Crowley has contracted German propulsion manufacturer Schottel to supply a propulsion system for its first all-electric harbor tug eWolf. The post First US all-electric...
[Brief] Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen is known best for her career in fashion, and her appearance has graced the covers of more than 1,200 magazines over the years, but she is also a prominent environmental philanthropist and activist. So when she encountered a sea turtle...
Maritime classification society American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has granted Swedish company Alfa Laval the first marine approval for operating boilers on methanol. The post Alfa Laval gets marine...
As the European Union moves to tighten waste shipment regulations, a coalition of non-governmental organizations have accused Germany of contravening the Waste Shipment Regulation and the Basel Convention in trying to ship plastic wastes from Turkey to Vietnam. U.S.-based Basel Action Network (BAN) said that as part of...
