The leaders of Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan have signed a new convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, an issue that has been disputed between the five countries for over 20 years. Russian President Vladimir Putin said the agreement, “creates conditions for bringing cooperation between the countries to a qualitatively new… Read more »
Independent benchmark testing on behalf of the Chinese government has identified one method as an accurate methodology for portable ballast water sampling. The Single Turnover One Pulse (STOP) methodology used by Chelsea Technologies’ FastBallast Sensor, was independently verified by researchers from the Environmental Protection & Energy-saving Technique Research Centre of China. “It is essential that… Read more »
A Californian port is pushing full speed ahead with environmental initiatives and projects having completed the annual recertification process to maintain its Green Marine certification. The Port of Hueneme made history as the first port in the state to earn Green Marine certification one year ago and remains the only port in California to have… Read more »
International shipping industry organisations, with military support, have launched a new website dedicated to providing comprehensive maritime security guidance to companies and mariners. Launched today, the new website www.maritimeglobalsecurity.orgprovides security-related guidance produced by the industry as well as links to other useful maritime and military security resources. “In a world of increasingly complex security risks, it… Read more »
Italian shipowning association AssArmatori has suggested four extraordinary measures that the state should adopt to deal with the impact on port and road traffic and on the local and national economy of the collapse of the Morandi bridge in Genoa. According to Assarmatori, it is necessary to implement four measures to address the crisis. First of all,… Read more »
The effects of the objective orientation of port authorities and the level of service differentiation on the capacity, service price, profits, and welfare among competing or cooperating ports are analyzed in the latest port study of PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom co-authored with Han Cui (University of Antwerp). Theo and Han examined feasible combinations of these… Read more »
Vessel owner Yara has signed a deal with Norwegian shipyard Vard worth appr NOK 250 million to build the world’s first autonomous electric container ship. Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg was present for the signing at the shipyard in Brevik, Norway Vard will deliver Yara Birkeland for launch in early 2020, and the vessel will… Read more »
Report from Clean Cargo Working GroupTM, representing 85 percent of ocean containerized shipping and industry customers, shows a drop in CO2 emissions in 2017 San Francisco, August 16, 2018—Carbon dioxide emissions from 22 of the world’s leading ocean container carriers, representing 85 percent of global containerized shipping, continued to fall in 2017, but more… Read more »
In a statement today, the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) says it is encouraged by efforts made by the IMO Member States to resolve some pressing practical challenges ahead of the global implementation of the 0.5% sulphur in fuel cap on 1 January 2020. Speaking after an important IMO working group meeting last week, to… Read more »
Pierre Cariou was involved in organising the ISLI Supply Chain Forum, “Emerging Challenges in a Complex Future”, held at the Kedge Business School in Bordeaux in March 2018. One of the panel discussions moderated by Pierre Cariou focused on the digitalisation of shipping supply chains. Dominique Lebreton, MGI chief business development officer, also spoke about… Read more »
