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The decision by the UK government to issue a bucketload of new oil and gas exploration licenses since late last year has riled up environmentalists in the country with some turning to the courts to challenge them. Leading up to the 2024 election, the previous majority government in the UK approved 82 oil and gas …
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https://splash247.com/uk-government-taken-to-court-over-north-sea-oil-and-gas-licenses/The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has announced that it will be publishing a call for a second regional offshore wind energy sale in the Central Atlantic. This call invites public feedback on possible commercial wind energy development in areas off the coasts of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. The …
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https://splash247.com/us-starts-work-on-second-central-atlantic-offshore-wind-auction/A more complex, regulated landscape for vessel operators has brought challenges around applications and network security into focus, writes Tore Morten Olsen, president of maritime at Marlink. A survey of the shipping industry 20 years ago would have found ship operators and service providers in an uneasy stalemate. With a virtual monopoly in place, communications …
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https://splash247.com/bandwidth-orbits-and-networks-how-digital-strategy-overcame-technology-choices-in-maritime/An Indian crewmember on a bulk carrier in Argentina struck down with symptoms similar to mpox has been told he is in fact suffering from chicken pox. The entire ship’s crew were quarantined earlier this week over fears that the skin lesions found on one seafarer were a strain of mpox. The World Health Organization …
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https://splash247.com/mpox-scare-onboard-bulk-carrier-in-argentina-turns-out-to-be-chicken-pox/The Chinese steel industry is going through a “winter”, according to the head of the world’s largest steel producer, with analysts warning the sector – vital for capesize owners – faces prolonged decline. Steel production in July dropped by 9% year-on-year reaching 82.9m tonnes according to the National Bureau of Statistics, the lowest figure reported …
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https://splash247.com/only-5-of-chinese-steel-producers-are-currently-profitable/A third Japanese company has come clean that it altered test results for hundreds of ship engines manufactured since the year 2000. Kawasaki Heavy Industries joins IHI Power Systems and Hitachi Zosen in a rumbling Japanese engine scandal as Tokyo investigates all the nation’s ship engine manufacturers. Following the news this April that more than …
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https://splash247.com/kawasaki-heavy-becomes-embroiled-in-growing-japanese-engine-scandal/Canada’s two biggest railways have shut down after a midnight deadline passed without an agreement over pay conditions. The stoppage of work by 9,300 engineers, conductors and yard workers at Canadian National Railway Co (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) marks the first-ever simultaneous shutdown at the country’s main railroad operators with ports across …
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https://splash247.com/canadas-two-largest-railways-shut-down/Britain's decision to issue dozens of new oil and gas exploration licences is being challenged in court by a marine conservation organisation, which argues ministers unlawfully failed to consider the impact on marine life.Oceana UK is taking legal action over 31 licences issued under Britain's previ
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/uk-north-sea-licences-challenged-516214NYK has tested its Hz Navi system which can reduce the energy consumption of marine generators by lowering their frequency.Current generator frequencies are set so that onboard equipment such as pumps and motors, which operate in conjunction with the power supply frequency…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/nyk-system-adjusts-frequency-reduce-fuel-516216The Methanol Institute (MI) has been granted consultative status by the IMO.Consultative status is reserved for non-governmental, international organizations that have the capability to make a substantial contribution to the work of IMO. MI…
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