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The NOC’s Marine Robotics Innovation Centre has announced that Abyssal is joining its community of partners. This follows the news from earlier in the month that Cellula Robotics has partnered with the Centre.

The broader aim of the campaign is to contribute to the cleaner state of the Baltic Sea.

Austal has announced the intention to spend approximately US$100million on building a steel shipbuilding capability

International Bargaining Forum (IBF) Warlike Operations Area Committee Statement on piracy in the Gulf Of Guinea

Small island nations face an existential and developmental threat from ship-source pollution endangering their vulnerable marine ecosystems and ocean economies. An effective international legal regime can help.

BAE Systems has strengthened its technology and data portfolio with a deal to buy Techmodal, a UK-based data consultancy and digital services company.

Gaining full-scale capability and coverage in Northern Europe, Mediterranean, Northern Africa, Middle East & the Indian Subcontinent and Asia

Montreal dockworkers have been working without a union contract with the Maritime Employers Association since December 2018 as they have been continuing to negotiate their working hours.

However, as a consequence of the restructuring, NORDEN will unfortunately part ways with 25 colleagues in Copenhagen, Manila and Mumbai.

The pandemic has disrupted supply chains around the world. It presents vast logistics challenges everywhere. But there are solutions. And at their heart are technology and people – and the tools, communications and data that link them.

Like many other parts of the economy for which direct electrification of battery use is not economically viable, shipping can use renewable energy stored as hydrogen or a variant of hydrogen.

The first regulations designed to support the IMO’s greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets are on the near horizon, but there are more regulatory hurdles to consider.