Ship safety

Are You Safe?

Cleaner Seas July 27, 2021 Post a comment

Tampering of machinery space bilge water separators, oil content meters or the use of by-passes, so called magic pipes, is unfortunately still a very common occurrence on board vessels. The number of US prosecutions and heavy fines remain at a high level in spite of the enhanced environmental

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Saving Ships By Cutting Their Drift

Cleaner Seas July 27, 2021 0

The failure of a ship’s engines while at sea will cause it to drift and to turn side-on to the wind and the tide. The speed with which this happens will depend upon the strength of the wind but modern cruise ships and car carriers have surface areas many times greater than the sail area […]

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Interview Questions And Answers With Leo Kissel – Managing Director

Cleaner Seas July 27, 2021 0

With various risks being faced by a ship owner, there has always been a provision to acquire tailor-made insurance covers, just as there should also be a provision to buy tailor-made K&R cover. The natural question which arises for any ship owner is; what are the different factors that constitute a tailor-made K&R cover? Leo […]

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Calculating The Cost Of Piracy

Cleaner Seas July 27, 2021 0

In an increasingly commoditised marketplace, shipowners and operators – challenged with low day rates, overcapacity, and working to comply with current and impending environmental regulation – face another question over how to differentiate themselves from the crowd; how they combat the threat of the loss of crew and earnings brought about by a piracy attack.

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Whales On A Collision Course With Vessels: Progress Update

Cleaner Seas July 27, 2021 0

Whales, which have been hunted for centuries, are still recovering from industrial whaling. They are also confronted to new threats: bycatch in fishing nets, habitat degradation, pollution, diseases, climate change, underwater noise, etc. As a consequence of the globalization of maritime trade and the development of passenger transport, another anthropogenic threat has

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Creating More Time To Avoid Disaster

Cleaner Seas July 27, 2021 0

If a ship loses power while at sea it will be a lottery as to whether it can be prevented from running aground. Such an event is disastrous to any ship but if it happens to a tanker the consequences can be momentous. Yet ultimately it is down to a collection of random factors that […]

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Hyde Marine to Provide B-Box Ballast Water Treatment Service

Cleaner Seas July 27, 2021 0

HYDE MARINE TO PROVIDE B-BOX BALLAST WATER TREATMENT SERVICE, NIOZ TESTING PROTOCOL TO HELP VALIDATE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE

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Innovative 2,500 TEU Container Vessel “Trade Wings 2,500” from VPLP Design, Alwena Shipping, SDARI and AYRO receives Approval in Principle from Bureau Veritas

Cleaner Seas May 17, 2021 0

Paris La Défense, 17 May 2021 – The “Trade Wings 2,500”, an innovative container ship with a capacity of 2,500 TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit), designed jointly by VPLP Design, Alwena Shipping, SDARI, and AYRO has received Approval in Principle from Bureau Veritas. With an overall length of 197m and a breadth of 32m, the vessel offers a deadweight of […]

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NORSEPOWER ANNOUNCES INSTALLATION OF FIVE TILTABLE ROTOR SAILS ON A VLOC CHARTERED BY VALE

Cleaner Seas May 14, 2021 0

New-build bulker utilises wind propulsion to maximise reduction of carbon emissions by up to 3,400 tons of CO2 per year. HELSINKI – 13 May 2021: Norsepower Oy Ltd., the leading global provider of auxiliary wind propulsion systems, today announced the installation of five tilting Rotor Sails onboard a newbuild Very Large Ore Carrier (VLOC) chartered by Vale, the […]

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IHM Maintenance

Cleaner Seas February 24, 2021

Until recently the 2020-deadline for Inventory of Hazardous Materials Part I – hazardous materials in structure and equipment (IHM) for existing ships visiting EU or flying an EU-flag was challenging.