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The Angolan National Agency for Oil, Gas and Biofuels has revealed that one person was missing following a fire on Chevron’s deepwater Benguela Belize Lobito Tomboco (BBLT) oil platform. The fire broke out on May 20 around 3 am local time in the basement of the multi-story production platform, which has living quarters for approximately …
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https://splash247.com/one-person-missing-following-fire-on-chevrons-platform-off-angola/Damen Compact Crafts (DCCr), part of the Damen Shipyards Group, and high-tech company CEAD are launching a collaboration to develop a 3D-printed workboat, exploring the potential of large-format 3D printing in shipbuilding. The project will take place at CEAD’s Maritime Application Center (MAC) in Delft in The Netherlands. Damen said it aims to investigate how …
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https://splash247.com/damen-to-3d-print-a-workboat/The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) is conducting a nonadjudicatory investigation to examine whether the vessel flagging laws, regulations, or practices of certain foreign governments create unfavourable shipping conditions in the foreign trade of the US. The FMC said it is concerned about the conditions created by the wide and uneven range of foreign vessel flagging laws, regulations, …
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https://splash247.com/washington-takes-another-swipe-at-the-imo-in-launching-flag-investigation/The shipping situation in the Baltic is tense with Russia trading barbs with its neighbours and militaries getting involved. Poland was forced yesterday to intervene after a ship from the Russian shadow fleet was seen performing suspicious manoeuvres near a power cable connecting Poland with Sweden. Meanwhile, Estonia and Russia have been threatening each other …
https://splash247.com/tense-shipping-situation-in-the-baltic-as-russia-hits-out-at-neighbours/
https://splash247.com/tense-shipping-situation-in-the-baltic-as-russia-hits-out-at-neighbours/The Cypriot-flagged, 886 teu containership NCL Salten ran aground overnight only a few meters from a house on the shore in Norway’s Trondheim fjord. There have been no reports of oil spills or injuries onboard the North Sea Container Line-owned boxship. The only real damage caused was to a heating pipe outside the house where …
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https://splash247.com/ncl-boxship-becomes-lodged-on-norwegians-front-garden/Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has offloaded one of its elderly VLCCs – the company’s first supertanker sale in more than two years. Multiple shipbroking sources have reported that the Tokyo-based shipping giant is letting go of the 2008 Kawasaki-built M Star to an undisclosed buyer for about $46.7m. In July 2010, the same vessel …
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https://splash247.com/mol-offloads-ageing-vlcc/Manish Singh from Aboutships writes about the future of maritime autonomy and delegation. As businesses and societies are getting hands on with early applications of agentic artificial intelligence, I am increasingly being asked about what it means for the maritime world. Unlike traditional automation onboard ships or general industries, agentic AI will become increasingly context-aware, …
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https://splash247.com/what-agentic-ai-at-sea-promises/The Panama Canal welcomed a visit from the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Panama on May 21.Kevin Marino Cabrera visited as part of an institutional outreach tour focused on providing first-hand knowledge of the canal’s operations.The U.S.
https://www.marinelink.com/news/us-ambassador-visits-panama-canal-locks-526037
https://www.marinelink.com/news/us-ambassador-visits-panama-canal-locks-526037The 30-year-old Washington State Ferries vessel Wenatchee, one of the state’s three largest ferries, has been converted to hybrid-electric power. It is due to be operational again this summer.The work included:• taking out two of the four diesel…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/washington-state-ferry-converted-526038The CIMAC working group WG20 System Integration has released the CIMAC Guideline "Digital Twins in the Maritime Industry."The Guideline examines concepts, definitions and applications of digital twins. It provides a comprehensive framework for…
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