Intradco Global is used to dealing with animals of all shapes and sizes, but on this occasion a paw-fect mission was completed when they aided in the rehoming of 88 rescue dogs. The dogs were flown from Costa Rica to Canada where they travelled onwards to their new homes. Intradco Global worked with Toronto-based rescue […]
Major container ports across the U.S. have experienced record-setting cargo growth, and the Port of Virginia is no exception. Over the course of the fiscal year ending June 30, it set a new annual cargo record, moving 3.2 million TEU – including a record 280,000 TEU in June alone. June was the tenth consecutive month […]
Five oil majors and a slew of smaller companies are battling for the right to build a mega offshore wind project in Scotland after the country announced the first round of seabed acreage licensing in a decade. Equinor, TotalEnergies, Royal Dutch Shell, RWE and three partnerships – Ocean Winds with Aker, BP with EnBW, and […]
Last Thursday, the World Trade Organization (WTO) gathered trade ministers from around the world to deliberate on new rules aimed at reducing government subsidies to the fishing industry. These subsidies are blamed for the decline of fish stocks globally, threatening the livelihoods of artisanal fishermen along with destruction of fragile ocean ecosystems. Although trade negotiations […]
The brand new cruise ship Crystal Endeavor has set sail from Reykjavik, Iceland for her maiden revenue voyage, a 10-night tour around the island nation. The sailing is the first of its kind for a luxury expedition vessel in Northern Europe and the Arctic since the pandemic shutdown began, the company said. “This is an […]
The US Coast Guard released a video of one of the more challenging medical evacuations carried out by one of its helicopter teams on July 17. The helicopter crew was challenged to conduct the evac from the front of the vessel due to its design versus their normal strategy of coming in from the stern […]
As the newbuild market continues to heat up with orders running strongly ahead of recent years, Chinese officials are promoting their successes with orders up over 200 percent in 2021 and advancements in new ship designs such as in the VLCC segment. They are reporting the delivery of a vessel, which they are promoting as […]
Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR and oil and gas contractor Technip Energies have signed an agreement to study the use of floating wind turbines to power offshore oil and gas operations in the Caspian Sea. If realized, the pilot project would be the first deployment of offshore wind technology in Azerbaijan. At present, upstream operations […]
The Vineyard Wind project continues to make progress to becoming the first offshore wind farm in the U.S. federal water. On July 16, the project held a signing ceremony to commemorate the first project labor agreement for an industrial-scale offshore wind project in the United States. The contract is another important step for the project […]
The regional organization that coordinates efforts to combat piracy and armed robbery against ships in Asia, ReCAAP, has once again issued a warning about the level of activity in the Singapore Strait and in particular in one zone near Bintan Island, Indonesia. ReCAAP reported two additional incidents on July 17, while the organization reported a […]
The USNS John Lewis, the first ship in a new class of U.S. Navy fleet oilers, was christened July 17 in a ceremony in San Diego. The Lewis-class will replace the Avondale-built Henry J. Kaiser-class, which first entered service in 1986. 12 out of the 15 Kaiser-class oilers are single-hulled tankers, and they would not […]
The biggest issue facing the aviation industry today is sustainability. Though it is at the top of many companies’ agendas, for true change to be realised it is imperative that companies are fully invested in the process of making the industry, and the world, more sustainable in all senses of the word. The International Air […]
