New Zealand health officials have confirmed additional cases of COVID-19 on board the containership Mattina, bringing the total number of confirmed cases on the ship… Weiterlesen »Delta Cases Rise on Containership in New Zealand

Four people are missing after a wind turbine installation vessel partially capsized in the South China Sea off Huizhou, China. The WTIV Shengping 001 was… Weiterlesen »Wind Turbine Installation Vessel Capsizes Off China

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The bleak outlook of significantly lower throughput levels for container hub ports at the outset of the pandemic has, 18 months… Weiterlesen »Global Container Port Capacity Will Struggle to Catch Up with Rising Demand

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — Typhoon In-Fa, the powerful storm battering regions around Shanghai, has forced some of the world’s biggest shipping ports to halt operations… Weiterlesen »Shanghai Mega-Ports Shuttered as Typhoon In-Fa Slams East China

Port State Control authorities are preparing an inspection campaign targeting ship stability. The 3-month inspection campaign is being launched by the Tokyo and Paris MoU… Weiterlesen »Port State Control Authorities to Launch Ship Stability Campaign Targeting 10,000 Inspections

by Elisa Anzolin (Reuters) Swiss-based shipping group MSC, Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri and gas group Snam are joining forces on a feasibility study with a view to building… Weiterlesen »MSC Wants World’s First Hydrogen Cruise Ship

Last year, Brazil was one of the few that raised output, adding more than any other non-OPEC country apart from Norway. It wants to double… Weiterlesen »Brazil Doubles Offshore Oil Exploration Despite COVID-19

By Alex Nicholson (Bloomberg) President Vladimir Putin used a Navy Day parade to deliver his latest reminder of Russia’s military muscle, touting the nation’s hypersonic nuclear… Weiterlesen »Putin Touts Navy’s New Hypersonic Nuclear Missiles

California has given Scripps Institute of Oceanography $35 million to design and build a new coastal research vessel with a hydrogen-hybrid propulsion system to replace… Weiterlesen »Scripps Gets $35M From California To Build A Hydrogen-Powered Research Vessel

Hackers hid and transmitted “trade secrets and proprietary hydroacoustic data” within digital images of a koala bear. By Prak Chan Thul (Reuters) Buried in a… Weiterlesen »Chinese Hackers Stole Hydroacoustic Data From Vietnam