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The world’s three largest containerlines are reflagging ships to the Indian register to take advantage of local cabotage laws and growing business around the shorelines of the world’s most populous nation. France’s CMA CGM was the first global liner to make the move this year, registering four vessels in India following on from a visit …
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https://splash247.com/msc-and-maersk-join-cma-cgm-in-moving-tonnage-to-india/South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with compatriot Rainbow Robotics for the development and commercialisation of shipbuilding robots. The two companies plan to expand their cooperation, starting with the development of AI-equipped welding robots based on collaborative robots, and extending to mobile dual-arm robots and quadruped robots. Under …
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https://splash247.com/samsung-heavy-readies-shipbuilding-robots/BOXBAY, a joint venture high-bay storage system between SMS Group and DP World originally installed in Dubai, is coming to Europe for the first time, signing a contract worth around $100m to build a facility at DP World’s London Gateway port. The 27,000 teu BOXBAY installation will be dedicated to empty container handling, stacking containers …
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https://splash247.com/boxbay-brings-vertical-thinking-to-london-gateway/UK-headquartered Zodiac Maritime has achieved another shipbuilding first, becoming the first client of Samsung Heavy Industries’ newly controlled Vietnam shipyard, committing to three firm conventionally fuelled suezmax tankers with options, priced at $80m per unit and delivering in 2028. Each vessel, with a capacity of approximately 157,000 dwt, will be constructed by Samsung Heavy at …
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https://splash247.com/zodiac-maritime-takes-the-plunge-with-suezmax-orders-in-vietnam/Taylor Maritime has remained one of the most active sellers in the geared bulker segment. The London-listed outfit has now sold 50 ships since 2023, as the Ed Buttery-led owner continues to streamline its fleet in a buoyant secondhand market. The latest disposals include four completed sales during and just after the third quarter, generating …
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https://splash247.com/taylor-maritime-hits-50-vessel-sales-milestone/The oil markets are in flux today as tanker trades retrench and Russia’s two largest buyers of oil pause buying the fuel that has helped fund Moscow’s war in Ukraine for the past three and a half years. News has emerged in the past 24 hours that, following Donald Trump’s sanctions this week on Rosneft …
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https://splash247.com/china-and-india-step-back-from-russian-oil-under-us-pressure/A new “Nuclear Ship Safety Handbook” by the MIT Maritime Consortium aims to set the standard for safe maritime nuclear propulsion.Using research data and standards, combined with operational experiences during civilian maritime nuclear operations…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/mit-maritime-consortium-releases-nuclear-531491On March 14, 1975, 22-year-old Californian woman Donna Tobias graduated from the US Navy Second Class Dive School to become the first woman deepsea diver in the Navy.Marking the 50th anniversary of women’s integration into the US Navy Diving community…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/women-navy-divers-meet-standards-men-531492No civilian maritime nuclear facilities have been commissioned in over four decades, but there’s been three major reports released this month on their future potential.DNV’s latest report, Maritime nuclear propulsion: Technologies, commercial viability…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/safeguarding-security-nuclearpowered-531495Researchers from Australia’s University of Queensland have made a microscopic “ocean” on a silicon chip to miniaturise the study of wave dynamics.The device, made at UQ’s School of Mathematics and Physics, uses a layer of superfluid helium only…
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