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The Gothenburg Port Authority has been working for a long time to encourage ships calling at the port to connect to the shoreside power system when at berth instead of keeping their engines running.

The agreement with Wärtsilä’s distributor in Manila, AWA Marine, will enable cloud-based simulators to be used for navigation, engineering, and liquid cargo handling simulator-based training.

Pirates in the Gulf of Guinea killed a seafarer and took another 15 seafarers hostage in an attack.

Wallem has signed an agreement with the Ocean Technologies Group to implement its recently launched OCEAN Learning Platform.

Alfa Laval will be part of the Center’s advisory board, providing strategic and technical guidance for future development projects and activities.

They have signed the Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew Change

Contecon Guayaquil (CGSA) at the Port of Guayaquil in Ecuador recently handled the world’s first carbon neutral-certified container shipment.

NOAA-funded researchers have identified a new record size coral colony at Ta’u Island in American Samoa, even larger than the island’s Big Momma colony, one of the largest in the world.

LNG Carrier Equipped with X-DF Propulsion Engine

Along the quay of the Hutchison Ports ECT Delta terminal on the Maasvlakte, the Port of Rotterdam Authority has installed a smart bollard as part of a trial.

MISC’s first Very Large Ethane Carrier (VLEC) - Seri Everest has successfully completed her inaugural full cargo loading which was the largest loading of ethane in the history of ethane shipping to date.

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) is leading calls for governments to put seafarers and frontline maritime shore workers at the head of the vaccine queue and to designate seafarers as key workers, to prevent a repeat of the 2020 ‘crew change crisis’.