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Seventeen months after the publication of BMP Maritime Security, perhaps the uncomfortable question is no longer whether the guidance is good enough. It is whether any industry guidance can keep pace with a world in which merchant ships are increasingly navigating through the middle of a naval battlefield. Maria Dixon reports. Missiles. Drones. Mines. Electronic …
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https://splash247.com/shippings-security-rulebook-meets-the-missile-age/Matthew Talbot, co-CEO of Complexio, is wary of grand predictions about where artificial intelligence will take shipping next. For him, the more immediate issue is the widening gap between what AI promises and what actually happens inside a shipping company on a Tuesday afternoon. “Twelve-month predictions in this field usually overshoot. The old line about …
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https://splash247.com/splash-singapore-complexios-matthew-talbot-on-workforce-challenges/More than 90 seafarers are now being held by pirates and armed robbers following a resurgence of piracy in the Gulf of Aden and surrounding waters, according to the International Maritime Organization (IMO). IMO secretary-general Arsenio Dominguez issued an urgent call for their release on Monday following reports that the Seamull had been hijacked on …
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https://splash247.com/imo-warns-piracy-surge-leaves-more-than-90-seafarers-captive/Canada has unveiled its biggest shipbuilding contract in Quebec’s history, committing C$11.3bn ($8.2bn) to six new Canadian Coast Guard icebreakers at Chantier Davie in Lévis. Prime minister Mark Carney said the programme would be carried out “on a scale that has not been seen in generations”, creating close to 5,000 jobs during construction and contributing …
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https://splash247.com/canada-doubles-down-on-shipbuilding-with-8-2bn-quebec-icebreaker-order/The US Maritime Administration (MARAD) has teamed up with CORE POWER in an agreement to accelerate a US-flagged fleet of nuclear-powered merchant ships. The memorandum of cooperation brings MARAD and the UK-founded nuclear technology company together to work through obstacles that have kept nuclear propulsion confined to naval vessels. CORE POWER is targeting first construction …
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https://splash247.com/washington-turns-to-nuclear-power-in-shipbuilding-revival/Global container port congestion has climbed beyond the levels recorded during the Covid era, removing more than 4.3m teu of capacity from circulation and helping keep freight and charter rates elevated. Data from Linerlytica shows 4.3m teu is now waiting to berth at container ports worldwide, surpassing the previous absolute peak of 4m teu recorded …
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https://splash247.com/container-port-congestion-smashes-covid-era-record/Shipowners trading through the Strait of Hormuz have been placed in a fresh compliance bind after Iran blacklisted 45 ships and threatened fines, detention and cargo confiscation, while Washington warned that complying with Tehran’s transit regime could trigger US sanctions. Iran’s newly established Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) published the “non-compliant vessels” list over the …
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https://splash247.com/hormuz-compliance-clash-traps-owners-between-tehran-and-washington/A Saudi-owned VLCC has been struck off Yanbu in the northern Red Sea, extending the Houthi campaign against Saudi shipping to one of the kingdom’s most important alternative crude export routes. The 320,926 dwt Amzan was hit around 63 nautical miles west of Yanbu on August 24. UK Maritime Trade Operations said an unknown projectile …
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https://splash247.com/houthi-strike-hits-saudi-vlcc-off-yanbu/Just two tankers transited the key energy chokepoint of the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, for the lowest daily tally of commodity vessels since early May, with both entering the Gulf, shipping data showed.The figure was also well below the 10-day average of 14…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/strait-hormuz-commodity-vessel-transits-542400Japan has opened a five-year, ¥15.1bn ($95m) subsidy programme to accelerate orders for ships powered by hydrogen, ammonia, methanol and batteries. The scheme, launched jointly by the transport and environment ministries, will cover up to half the cost of eligible equipment for hydrogen, ammonia and fully electric ships. Methanol-fuelled and hybrid vessels can receive support …
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