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Shipowners and Crew Alike Find the Regulatory “Tsunami” a Big Problem
Image (c) Shutterstock/Cardens Design “Have we placed the mariner in a no-win situation?” asked Captain Anuj Chopra at yesterday’s Mare Forum conference in Washington, DC. Chopra, the President of...
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Fathom Unveils New Technology in 2nd Edition of Ship Efficiency: The Guide
Business is ever-cyclic and one man’s misery is another man’s opportunity. Whilst ship operators and owners have been feeling the pinch from over-tonnage, a global downturn, ever-increasing bunker...
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Environmental Rules Will Cost Ship Owners a Half Trillion Dollars
Ship emissions file photo via ABS June 4 (Bloomberg) — Shipping faces $500 billion in extra costs to meet environmental legislation at a time when a rout in rates has become so severe that some owners...
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Hull Fouling Control: The Era of Innovation
Image courtesy Micanti In the absence of hull fouling control systems, within six months of active service a vessel could have up to 150 kilograms of marine life per square meter attached to the hull....
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Ship Owners Will Have To Count CO2 Emissions Under Proposed EU Plan
M/V UASC Shuwaikh, Photo by Joel Milton By Barbara Lewis BRUSSELS, June 28 (Reuters) – Owners of large ships using EU ports will have to measure and report annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from...
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The Rise of a Sustainability Leader: Maersk’s Journey to the Triple-E
Maersk Line’s first Triple-E class containership with a fresh coat of paint at the DSME shipyard in Okpo , South Korea. Image Maersk Line At four-hundred metres long, 59 metres wide and 73 metres...
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OCTOPUS-Onboard: Optimizing Seagoing Operations with Software [INTERVIEW]
While in Houston earlier this year, I caught up with Leon Adegeest, a Dutch entrepreneur who, along with his team, developed a particularly useful software program for the maritime and offshore...
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Greenhouse Gas Legislation Landscape: The EU Makes Its Move
EU flags in front of the Berlaymont building, headquarters of the European commission in Brussels. Image (c) Shutterstock/jorisvo The European Union (EU) has launched a flurry of activity around...
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Port Operators Under Pressure to Reduce Ship Emissions
Sandia National Laboratories researcher Joe Pratt stands near the Port of Oakland, one of the west coast ports he studied to learn whether hydrogen fuel cells are a viable power source for docked...
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Rolls-Royce and B9 Shipping: Reviving the Age of Sail
Image (c) Rob Almeida/gCaptain Rolls-Royce is working with B9 Shipping to develop a ship with a capacity of 4,500 tonnes that will be primarily powered by a 180-foot sail, with bio-methane engines...
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Stena Bulk Makes $10 Million Gain From Efficient Shipping Strategy
Image: Stena Bulk By Catherine McMillan, Whilst Maersk has famously stated that its efficiency measures were the vital component that have made the difference between profit and loss, other companies...
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The Dawn of Hydrogen as a Marine Fuel
In the midst of heightening bunker fuel prices and regulatory pressures around dirty fuel and the resulting combustive emissions, the maritime industry is beginning to explore alternative fuel avenues...
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DFDS Installs More Emissions Scrubbers To Comply With New 2015 Regs
Danish Ferry operator DFDS, have announced they have invested a total of DKK 400 million (≈$71 million) in new scrubber technology. The company reported reaching this figure by recently investing DKK...
View ArticleOceanfoil Predicts 20% Fuel Savings With Wingsail Concept
Oceanfoil, a UK-based aerofoil design company has announced that it has formed partnerships with naval architects Owen Clarke Design and University College London’s Energy Institute (UCL-Energy) to...
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Rolls-Royce to Supply “Promas Lite” For Norwegian Cruise Ship
Rolls-Royce has won a contract to supply an innovative an integrated propeller and rudder system called ”Promas Lite” to the Norwegian cruise ship owner Hurtigruten to improve propeller efficiency on...
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Euronav Believes Eco-Ship Newbuildings are a Waste of Money
Famenne, one of 13 VLCCs owned by Euronav, image: Euronav Euronav, the Belgium-based owner of large crude carriers believes that so-called “eco-ships” do not exist in the large tanker sector and that...
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Color Line Orders Wärtsilä Emissions Scrubbers
Image: Color Line Superspeed, via Facebook The Baltic region is a hot-bed of environmentally-aware shipowners at the moment as current and anticipated environmental legislation will require ships...
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Nose Job Leads to Big Savings for Clipper Multi-Purpose Vessel
International shipping company, Clipper Group, says it has achieved an overall fuel savings of about 8.5% from a new bulbous bow recently installed on a 2011-built multipurpose vessel. Clipper says...
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K-Line Orders New, Environmentally-Optimized Car Carrier
The new vessel will be the flagship of K-Line’s “Drive Green Project”, announced in late 2013. Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) — Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd., Japan’s third-largest shipping line by sales, has...
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“Wind Challenger” a Next Generation Bulk Carrier
As fuel prices continue to put a relentless burden on shipowners, the age of sail may be returning. A joint industry project launched in 2009 by the University of Tokyo and supported by NYK, MOL,...
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