News Ship safety

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

News Ship safety

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 […]

Innovation & technology News

Wärtsilä Cargo Handling and Fuel Supply Systems again selected for Oriental Energy vessels

Cleaner Seas May 12, 2021 0

Wärtsilä Corporation, Press release, 12 May 2021 at 10:00 AM EEST The technology group Wärtsilä will supply the Cargo Handling and LPG Fuel Supply Systems for two new very large gas carrier vessels (VLGC) being built for China-based Oriental Energy, a company mainly focusing on operation of PDH (Propane Dehydrogenation) factories and LPG trading. The ships are under […]

Economy News

ZeroNorth and Monjasa partner to power Optimise with bunker market data

Cleaner Seas May 11, 2021 0

New data partnership makes Monjasa’s bunker price and key port availability information accessible in ZeroNorth’s vessel optimisation platform. Copenhagen, Denmark; 11 May 2021: Maritime technology company ZeroNorth and global oil and shipping group Monjasa have today announced a new data partnership that makes Monjasa’s bunker market information available in Optimise,

LNG News

Puget LNG and GAC Bunker Fuels join forces to supply LNG marine fuel by barge from the Port of Tacoma

Cleaner Seas May 4, 2021 0

Tacoma, Washington (04 May 2021) – Puget LNG, LLC (‘Puget LNG’) and GAC Bunker Fuels Limited (‘GAC Bunker Fuels’) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate in the supply and sale of clean-burning LNG marine fuel from Puget LNG’s terminal to GAC’s customers in the Pacific Northwest. When the Tacoma LNG Terminal becomes operational in […]

Wildlife

Ocean Acidification: Why it’s Dangerous for the Ocean and Sea Life

Cleaner Seas December 31, 2020 0

With forests being replaced by buildings and housing projects, carbon dioxide concentrations have also increased rapidly over the years. These have resulted to different incidents including a decrease in the ocean’s pH units.

Wildlife

Overfishing: Why It’s Time To Tackle It Now Before It’s Too Late

Cleaner Seas December 23, 2020 0

Overfishing has been a growing problem around the world for years now and it happens when too much fish is caught at once that it’s hard for the breeding population to replenish its stocks.

Marine Pollution

The Ocean’s Plastic Problem Is Getting Worse With COVID-19

Cleaner Seas December 16, 2020 0

Just when things couldn’t get worse, the COVID-19 pandemic has added to an already alarming problem for the last few years.

News

TMC Launches Compressors For Use With Air Lubrication Systems

Cleaner Seas November 1, 2020

TMC’s marine compressed air systems for air lubrication systems can be utilised to generate the required stream of air bubbles that passes continuously beneath the ship’s surface, thereby reducing frictional resistance between the hull and the seawater.

Safe seas

Can Droughts Start Over Oceans? It’s Possible and Worse Than Those Over Land

Cleaner Seas September 12, 2020 0

Droughts and water can’t be on the same sentence, or at least that’s what we think. When we imagine a drought, we usually think about dry, hot, dusty and cracked land or dried lakes, streams or rivers due to the lack of water or less precipitation.