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The Trump Administration has filed a request to a federal court to vacate a permit approved for US Wind’s proposed Maryland Offshore Wind project. According to court documents, the project, cleared by the administration of former US president Joe Biden, could create issues with search and rescue operations and commercial fisheries. It was expected to …
https://splash247.com/maryland-offshore-wind-project-permit-challenged-in-federal-court/
https://splash247.com/maryland-offshore-wind-project-permit-challenged-in-federal-court/The Panama Canal has launched a new NetZero Slot, a category within its transit reservation system designed to encourage the decarbonisation of shipping. In an initial phase, vessels must be registered as dual-fuel to enter. The first competition to allocate this slot will take place on October 3, applicable to the transit week of November …
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https://splash247.com/panama-canal-carves-out-weekly-slot-for-dual-fuel-pioneers/On Friday, the UK imposed sanctions on 100 additional entities, including 70 tankers, in its latest crackdown on the Russia-linked shadow fleet of tankers. The move followed Moscow’s recent drone and missile strikes on Ukraine, as well as a violation of Polish airspace. With this action, the UK has now blacklisted nearly 500 tankers, up from …
https://splash247.com/uk-targets-further-70-tankers-in-latest-russian-sanctions/
https://splash247.com/uk-targets-further-70-tankers-in-latest-russian-sanctions/The World Shipping Council (WSC), liner shipping’s lobby group, has announced the launch of its Cargo Safety Program, an industry-led initiative to detect misdeclared and undeclared dangerous goods using artificial intelligence in order to prevent ship fires, protect crews, vessels, customers’ cargo, and the marine environment. The program combines AI-powered cargo screening and common inspection …
https://splash247.com/world-shipping-council-deploys-ai-in-fight-against-misdeclared-cargoes/
https://splash247.com/world-shipping-council-deploys-ai-in-fight-against-misdeclared-cargoes/Ukraine’s long-range drone war on Russia’s energy infrastructure escalated dramatically late last week, with strikes on the Baltic oil hub of Primorsk damaging tankers, halting terminal operations, and sparking fires visible for miles. Two Sierra Leone-flagged aframax tankers – Kusto and Cai Yun – were hit in the September 12 raid, with one vessel briefly …
New analysis from Danish liner consultancy Sea-Intelligence shows the growing percentage of empty containers moving around the world. Experts at Sea-Intelligence have calculated the share of empties relative to full containers, based on teu-miles, and found out that currently 41% of container transport is empty. “The present situation is that for every 10 miles a …
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https://splash247.com/41-of-container-transport-is-empty/LNG carrier demolition sales have already reached an annual record with nearly 30% of the year still to go. Data from Clarksons Research show 0.8m dwt worth of LNG carriers have been sent for demolition this year as weak market conditions have led to several steam turbine units being disposed of. “This is a pattern …
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https://splash247.com/lng-scrapping-sets-annual-record/The Trump administration has asked a federal judge to withdraw the Interior Department's 2024 approval of a wind farm off the coast of Maryland, according to court documents filed on Friday.The action is the latest in a series of moves the administration…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/trump-administration-asks-federal-court-529978
https://www.marinelink.com/news/trump-administration-asks-federal-court-529978The United States will be able to use planned defence facilities in Western Australia that are to help deliver nuclear-powered submarines under the trilateral AUKUS nuclear submarine deal, Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Sunday.Australia…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/us-access-australias-nuclear-submarine-529991
https://www.marinelink.com/news/us-access-australias-nuclear-submarine-529991The Venezuelan government announced on Saturday that a U.S. destroyer intercepted, boarded and occupied a Venezuelan tuna fishing vessel for eight hours in the waters of the South American country's Special Economic Zone on Friday.In a statement read by Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil…
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