The vessel, which is newbuild number 1089 at Tersan Shipyard, is the sister vessel of the world’s first LNG-driven wellboat, “Bjørg Pauline,” which was launched in December last year.
Month: March 2020
The annual general meeting of the Global Maritime Forum took place via a conference call. The agenda included the election of new members of the Board of Directors.
Although the invention of ships and other marine vessels has been greatly beneficial to humans, the noise they bring to the oceans has been detrimental to marine life.
Major lender to international shipping and one of Japan’s largest asset managers, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank (SMTB), announces that it is the latest financial institution to join the Poseidon Principles.
Now that there are no people around their natural habitat, this population of pink jellyfish no longer feels threatened, making them rise to the surface.
The Esperanza Base on the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula recorded an 18.3-Celsius temperature on February 6, 2020, the hottest temperature yet for Antarctica and almost the same temperature as Los Angeles in California that day.
New analysis from SEA-LNG demonstrates how ship assets opting for LNG can benefit for up to eight years of emissions compliance for preferable asset financing versus conventional vessel fuels like HSFO, VLSFO, and MGO.
The radiation from Fukushima, for instance, bled into the ocean when the Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant was damaged during the 2011 earthquake in Japan. What was released are dozens of radioactive elements in large quantities.
