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The maritime industry has worked with a single fuel source for over a century and with the rush to meet emission standards in both domestic and foreign markets, adapting to the current list of alternative fuels is going to present significant problems.
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/maritimes-search-holy-grail-alternative-524801A tidal wave of new regulations is set to hit the global maritime sector this year, representing fresh, highly-complex compliance challenges. From environmental performance to evolving security and safety standards, the shipping industry faces…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/charting-key-regulatory-change-across-524802The secretary of the US Department of the Interior and chairman of the National Energy Dominance Council, Doug Burgum, has stopped all construction of Equinor’s Empire Wind 1 project off the coast of New York. Burgum said in a social media post that his department, in consultation with the US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, …
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https://splash247.com/trump-administration-halts-work-on-equinors-wind-project-off-new-york/An all-Indian crew of the St. Kitts & Nevis-flagged offshore support vessel Star Apollo has not been paid their salaries since the start of their contracts, and the crew’s health is also becoming an issue, according to a leading seafarer trade union. The inspectorate coordinator of the International Transport Workers Federation, Steve Trowsdale, said in …
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https://splash247.com/abandoned-osv-crew-take-to-social-media-to-get-paid/Suba Sivandran, director of strategy, M&A and advanced services at Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore, gives readers an idea of the savings that are possible by installing wind tech on ships trading in Europe. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has finalised new measures that should provide a framework to decarbonise shipping. This is a pivotal …
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https://splash247.com/why-wind-propulsion-is-an-important-piece-in-shippings-compliance-puzzle/The International Labour Organization (ILO) has concluded the latest round of minimum wage negotiations for able seafarers at a meeting of the Subcommittee on Wages of Seafarers of the Joint Maritime Commission (JMC), held in Geneva on this week. The terms of the wage agreement see seafarers get a 6.2% increase in the monthly minimum …
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https://splash247.com/seafarers-to-get-6-2-pay-rise-over-the-coming-three-years/Many of shipping’s go-to bodies for trade forecasts are now slashing economic predictions for the year ahead in the wake of Donald Trump’s tariff war. Creating significant alarm, the World Trade Organization has warned global merchandise trade for 2025 could drop by as much as -1.5%, potentially becoming only the sixth time in the past …
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https://splash247.com/trumps-tariffs-crash-world-trade-forecasts/The latest American sanctions aimed at Iran’s oil industry make specific warnings to shipping about the use of substandard shipping. The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) yesterday designated a China-based independent teapot refinery Shandong Shengxing Chemical for its role in purchasing more than a billion dollars’ worth of Iranian crude …
Antonis Malaxianakis, founder and CEO of HarborLab, a port cost management platform, is willing to do what few others in maritime tech dare – going public on return on investment (ROI) numbers, something he’ll also happily share with delegates attending Geneva Dry, due to open on April 28. HarborLab is an AI-powered port cost management …
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https://splash247.com/geneva-dry-dialogues-harborlab/The scourge of crew abandonment is proving very hard for global administrators to rein in. A total of 54 ships and their crews have been abandoned so far this year, according to data carried by the International Labour Organization (ILO), putting 2025 potentially on track to be the second-highest toll for ships being ditched by …
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