South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries has completed the sale of the second of its three production facilities located in China. The company announced in 2021 that it intended to close its operation in Ningbo, China after 25 years following a similar pattern to other South Korean companies that have also been withdrawing from China. […]
As wildfires raged in northeastern Greece earlier this week, officials decided to evacuate a hospital that was threatened by the approaching flames. The best alternative available for dozens of patients and staffmembers was a ferry, the Adamantios Korais. Greece is battling dozens of simultaneous wildfires across the country, including a 280-square-mile blaze near Alexandroupolis that […]
Woodside Energy and its labor unions announced that they have reached an in-principle agreement for an enterprise labor agreement for the company’s liquified natural gas operations in Australia. Energy market analysts welcomed the news noting that the threatened strike against Woodside and Chevron was putting as much as 10 percent of the world’s LNG supply […]
The engineer at the center of the “Midshipman X” case that rocked the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in 2021, voluntarily relinquished his license to the U.S. Coast Guard yesterday. The U.S. Coast Guard’s Investigative Service confirmed that Edgar Sison, who had been the first assistant engineer on the Alliance Fairfax in 2019, handed over his license […]
[By Amanda Kahn and Jim Barry] Two miles below the ocean surface off Monterey, California, warm water percolates from the seafloor at the base of an underwater mountain. It’s a magical place, especially if you’re an octopus. In 2018, one of us, Amanda Kahn, was aboard the research vessel E/V Nautilus when scientists discovered the “Octopus […]
Late on Thursday, August 24, Turkish officials declared that the Dardanelles had reopened to two-way traffic. The critical shipping lane linking the Mediterranean, Aegean, Sea of Marmara, and the Black Sea was closed on August 22 as a raging wildfire threatened the area near the Çanakkale Strait. Shipping officials in the region reported that a […]
[By Syncrolift®] Many current shipyard practices date back to the 1700s – the days of sail, square-riggers, Nelson, and John Paul Jones. Some of those practices are very slow, unsafe, and labor-intensive. Legacy engineering is dangerous, and by definition should be a thing of the past. Syncrolift® Inc. of Miami, FL, and DM Consulting Inc (DMC) […]
Uruguayan operator Buquebus is set to become the owner of the first battery-electric ferry in South America, and it will be a record-holder. This lightweight aluminum-hulled ro/pax will have the largest energy storage battery ever installed on a vessel of any kind. At 40 MWh, it will have four times the capacity of the next-biggest […]
Tallinn Airport has announced the establishment of a subsidiary company, AS Airport City, focusing on developing the airport’s real estate business. This move will make Tallinn a more attractive location for global aviation companies, thereby increasing corporate and national revenues from aviation support services and the added value created here. “The unique challenges the last […]
ZeroAvia has announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with Masdar, one of the world’s leading clean energy companies, to explore hydrogen production and supply at key locations. The partnership with the UAE’s flagship renewable energy company, Masdar, will focus initially on projects in North America and Europe, while also looking at the opportunity […]
In just three months, the UK’s legacy customs platform, CHIEF (Cargo Handling of Import and Export Freight), will be replaced by the Customs Declaration Service (CDS). Rhenus UK is encouraging exporters to take prompt steps to transition to the new system before the late 2023 deadline. While import declarations shifted to CDS on 1st October […]
BlueBox Systems, a leading developer of intelligent air freight tracking solutions, has now established a high-level Advisory Board to provide strategic support and fresh impetus from the outside for the company’s development. Michael Wallraven, Jochen Frömming und Christoph Osterbrink are part of the Advisory Board. All of them will bring many years of expertise and […]
