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The European Commission has signed off on a €63bn ($72bn) French support scheme for offshore wind, giving Paris the green light to push ahead with one of Europe’s largest fixed-price clean power programmes. The package will support the construction and operation of 11 offshore wind farms across the North Sea, the Atlantic, and the Mediterranean …
https://splash247.com/eu-signs-off-on-72bn-french-offshore-wind-package/
https://splash247.com/eu-signs-off-on-72bn-french-offshore-wind-package/Windcat, part of Saverys’ family-controlled CMB.TECH, has signed long-term contracts to supply crew transfer vessel services to support Ørsted’s offshore wind farm operations based out of Grimsby. Ørsted’s Generation UK Hub operates and maintains six offshore wind farms from Grimsby’s Royal Docks, delivering green energy to millions of homes and businesses. The agreements will run …
https://splash247.com/windcat-secures-long-term-orsted-ctv-contracts/
https://splash247.com/windcat-secures-long-term-orsted-ctv-contracts/Norway’s offshore oil service strike has been ended after SAFE and Offshore Norge agreed to take the wage dispute to a voluntary wage board. The deal means the strike and lockout are over and that workers will return as soon as practicable. The dispute had affected offshore drilling activity and cut into Norway’s petroleum output, …
https://splash247.com/norway-brings-offshore-strike-to-a-close/
https://splash247.com/norway-brings-offshore-strike-to-a-close/South Korea has opened an antitrust investigation into four of the world’s largest container manufacturers, expanding regulatory pressure on companies already facing criminal and civil proceedings in the United States over alleged price-fixing during the pandemic. The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) is investigating Singapore-based Singamas and Chinese manufacturers China International Marine Containers (CIMC), Dong …
https://splash247.com/south-korea-joins-the-us-in-probe-of-container-manufacturing-giants/
https://splash247.com/south-korea-joins-the-us-in-probe-of-container-manufacturing-giants/Member fleets of the Container Ship Safety Forum (CSSF) improved in several key safety metrics last year, but one trend stood out for the wrong reasons – fire frequency rose for a third consecutive year. For Swapnodeep Mondal, second chairman of the CSSF and group director of operations at Anglo-Eastern, that is a warning that …
https://splash247.com/cssf-why-containership-fires-keep-getting-worse/
https://splash247.com/cssf-why-containership-fires-keep-getting-worse/Ukraine has hit 116 Russian vessels in nine days in the Sea of Azov, a campaign so intense it will go down as one of the most concentrated series of attacks on merchant shipping ever recorded — eclipsing, in terms of ships struck per day, even the tanker wars of the 1980s. The blitz, which …
https://splash247.com/ukraines-azov-campaign-eclipses-the-tanker-wars-of-the-1980s/
https://splash247.com/ukraines-azov-campaign-eclipses-the-tanker-wars-of-the-1980s/Donald Trump has abandoned his plan to charge ships 20% of cargo value to transit the Strait of Hormuz, dropping the toll just hours before the US reimposed its blockade of Iranian ports and replacing it with promises of massive Gulf investment into the American economy. The US president stunned the shipping world on Monday …
https://splash247.com/us-revives-iran-blockade-after-trump-toll-u-turn/
https://splash247.com/us-revives-iran-blockade-after-trump-toll-u-turn/Hong Kong-based bulker owner KC Maritime has returned to the newbuilding market with an order for two ultramaxes in China. The shipping arm of the Chellaram Group signed the 63,500 dwt pair at Jiangsu Soho Chuangke Shipbuilding, with no price or delivery dates having been disclosed. KC Maritime traces its shipping operations back to 1980 …
https://splash247.com/kc-maritime-returns-to-china-for-ultramax-pair/
https://splash247.com/kc-maritime-returns-to-china-for-ultramax-pair/With MOL and IBM, and NYK and Microsoft, joining forces, Peter Schellenberger argues the AI-powered 24-hour operations centre will define the next generation of shipmanagement — and could double the industry’s share of the world fleet. I read with interest the recent SplashTech article that Mitsui OSK Lines and IBM have jointly developed an AI-powered …
https://splash247.com/shipmanagements-ai-reckoning/
https://splash247.com/shipmanagements-ai-reckoning/Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to close "all other export corridors that benefit the U.S. and its allies", Iranian media reported, after Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz and the U.S. reimposed a naval blockade of Iranian ports."Regional energy exports are either shared by all…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/iran-warns-seaways-close-us-reimposes-541233
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