ABB has won a National Individual Standing Offer (NISO) to provide full-scope services for equipment installed on board Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) vessels, reducing maintenance costs and increasing uptime.The NISO covers the full range of remote diagno...
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Suez Canal: 140 More Ships to Pass Through on Tuesday After Ever Given Unstuck
The Suez Canal expects 140 ships to pass on Tuesday after the freeing of a container ship stranded for nearly a week allowed it to reopen, but experts warned that disruptions to global shipping and at ports could take months to resolve.The blockage thr...
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Ørsted and NOAA Ink Data Sharing Agreement
NOAA and offshore wind development company Ørsted have signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) to share physical and biological data in Ørsted-leased waters subject to U.S. jurisdiction. NOAA, said the MOA is the first of its kind with an offshore…
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U.S. Sets 30 GW Offshore Wind Target
The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday that it has set a goal to vastly expand the nation’s offshore wind energy capacity in the coming decade by opening new areas to development, speeding environmental permitting, and…
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How Shipping Ports Can Become More Sustainable
Marine shipping drives 90% of global trade, moving over 11 billion tonnes of containers, solid and liquid bulk cargo across the world’s seas annually. Almost all consumer products we buy — or the raw materials required to make them — arrive at Canadian...
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Top Three Takeaway Lessons From the Suez Canal Blockage
For a week the world was gripped by the extraordinary sight of a massive container ship that had run aground in the Suez Canal in Egypt. The Ever Given is 400m long (1,312ft) and weighs 200,000 tonnes, with a maximum capacity of 20,000 containers.
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Ship Scrapping Market Sees Big Bookings
Several large LDT sales have taken place this week, as owners dip in to take advantage of the red hot sub-continent markets of the moment.Almost all of the locations saw some activity this week (market and private), with India even getting in…
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Seaspan Shipyards Begins Building Canada’s New Research Ship
Canadian shipbuilder Seaspan Shipyards announced on Monday it has cut steel and started full-rate construction of the newest oceanographic science research vessel for the Canadian Coast Guard and Fisheries and Oceans Canada.The 88-meter Offshore…
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Double Hulls and the Oil Spills That Never Happened
When it comes to marine pollution, often it’s the bad news that makes the headlines. But for every newsworthy incident, there’s another story about the spills and other incidents that didn’t happen thanks to preventative measures and policies, and the ...
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The Ever Given is on the Move; the Suez Canal Reopens
A largescale salvage operation has freed one of the world's biggest containerships from blocking global trade through the Suez Canal, services firm Boskalis said Monday, enabling the resumed flow of maritime commerce through one of the world’s most imp...
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