[ad_1] The Australian Antarctic Program is working with NASA over the next few months to test an under-ice robot which may eventually be used in a space mission to look for signs of extra-terrestrial life. NASA is preparing to fly to Jupiter within the next decade...
[ad_1] myCert, a product line of Safebridge is this year’s grand winner of the CrewConnect Global Conference Innovation and Technology Solutions Award. The Innovation and Technology Solutions Award is dedicated to companies, which demonstrate a significant contribution to moving the maritime industry towards the digital track...
[ad_1] The push for digitalization is driving the need for greater cyber protection across the marine and offshore value chain. As vessels, ports and facilities become more automated, connected and digital—and information technology (IT) converges with operational technology (OT) systems—operations are increasingly vulnerable to cyber...
[ad_1] MAN Energy Solutions has won the contract to supply the main propulsion engines for two new ice-breaking ASD tugs, to be operated by Svitzer in the Scandanavian region. Each vessel, rated with 60 tonnes of bollard pull, will be powered by 2 × MAN...
[ad_1] Despite the industry’s best intentions, such as designating hazardous snap-back zones on mooring decks, or the drawing up of detailed line management and mooring plans, mooring remains an incredibly high-risk task. Serious, often fatal, accidents continue to happen with depressing regularity, with seemingly no...
[ad_1] Total and its partners have announced first oil from the Iara license in the deepwater Santos Basin pre-salt offshore from Brazil. This marks the start-up of the P-68, the first of the two floating production, storage and offloading units (FPSOs) already launched and to be...
[ad_1] The European Investment Bank (EIB) will end financing for fossil fuel energy projects from the end of 2021 in a move to aligning all its financing activities with the goals of the Paris Agreement. EIB Group financing will unlock EUR one trillion ($1.1 trillion)...
[ad_1] In a House subcommittee hearing on Thursday, the head of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board's Marine Safety Office critiqued the U.S. Coast Guard's willingness to tighten safety rules for passenger vessels based on evidence from past small-vessel casualties. The recent casualties involving the...
[ad_1] Chile's dockers have joined the widespread protests sweeping the South American nation, disrupting commerce at multiple ports up and down its coastline. Protesters representing a broad range of Chilean society are calling for economic and political reforms - chief among them, a higher minimum...
[ad_1] WISTA members Anna Silva, Port Everglades, Lesley Karentz Buchanan, STAR Center, Christine Battles, Advanced Mechanical Enterprises/AME and Rachel Kotkowski with Royal Caribbean visited South Broward High School to educate students enrolled in the Marine Magnet Program and the Global Logistics program about the Marine Industry....
