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Currently, the AIS solution is in use at the ports of Riga, Ventspils, and Liepāja, but in the future, the user base may be enlarged to include other Latvian ports.
The U.S. military has reportedly used unmanned surface vessels (USVs) in combat against Iranian military targets for the first time, marking the first publicly acknowledged operational use of naval drones by U.S. forces in such a...

New NTNU`s robot makes studying the ocean easy

“Pamela” is an uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) developed as an entrepreneurial idea at NTNU for sampling a variety of surface water particles, from microplastic to plankton to salmon lice.

CityU study reveals poorly discarded surgical masks threaten marine ecosystem

A mask weighing about three grams released about 3,000 microplastics.

Scientists uncover ‘missing’ plastics deep in the ocean

About 51 trillion microplastics are floating in the surface waters of oceans around the world.

Novel method reveals small microplastics throughout Japan’s subtropical ocean

Over 75% of the plastics found in the samples were made from polyethylene

Plastics-gatherer vessel sets sail for the Dominican Republic

The Interceptor 004, a vessel that will gather plastics o the Ozama River and prevent them from reaching the Caribbean Sea, has already set...

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