[ad_1] CMA CGM is supporting the financial and industrial development of Agricool, a young company specializing in urban agriculture, in order to enable it to launch its industrialization phase. Founded in 2015 in Paris, Agricool aims to create urban farms in recycled containers. With its agricultural...
[ad_1] A new mobile harbor crane for Port Canaveral arrived today at the Port’s North Cargo Berth 5. The mammoth crane arrived early Friday morning aboard the heavy load carrier, Happy Dover. The 270-foot tall Liebherr LHM 600 – the largest mobile harbor crane in the United States –...
[ad_1] Russia's President Vladimir Putin inaugurated a LNG import terminal in Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea earlier this week. The facility is an offshore gas receiving terminal hosting the floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Marshal Vasilevskiy. The new facilities will enable up to 3.7...
[ad_1] The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has predicted that the effects of the sulfur cap on crude oil and petroleum product markets will be most acute in 2020 and will diminish over time. Set to go into effect January 1, 2020, the new IMO regulations...
[ad_1] According to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Antarctica is losing ice mass six times faster than it did in the 1980s. Researchers from the University of California at Irvine, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Utrecht University also...
[ad_1] Two more ocean-going tugs have been dispatched to meet the containership Yantian Express at a position about 900 nm southeast of Halifax. The Express has been drifting or moving ahead at a slow bell in the North Atlantic since January 3, when a cargo...
[ad_1] A decade ago, we all knew of at least one shipping company that felt safe receiving its debt financing from a single source (a behavior that was, unfortunately, encouraged by some bankers), and eventually experienced immense pain when some key-lenders abruptly withdrew from ship...
[ad_1] The Earth’s north magnetic pole is shifting so rapidly that steps are being taken to ensure it doesn't impact navigation in the Arctic. Compass needles point towards the north magnetic pole, a point that has moved from Canada to the middle of the Arctic Ocean...
[ad_1] Rear Adm. Wendi B. Carpenter has been named the Executive Director of the Captain Phillips and Lane Kirkland Maritime Trust. She has served as a Board Member of the Trust since shortly after its inception and has been closely involved with its administrative setup, strategic...
[ad_1] Harley Franco has ceded operational control at Harley Marine, the Seattle-based marine towing conglomerate he founded, to the company's second-in-command. Effective today, Harley Marine board member and COO Matthew Godden has been appointed interim president, with authority over all personnel, financial transactions and operations, according to...
