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NEWS AND VIEWS FROM SHIPPINGINSIGHT MEDIA SPONSORS – WEEK OF APRIL 3
Alfa Laval Sees Greater Interest in High Flow BWTS
March 30, 2017 — With the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention set to take effect in September, Alfa Laval said it has seen growing customer interest in ballast water treatment systems and in its PureBallast. Of particular note is interest in PureBallast systems with high flow capacities. Continue Reading…
AkzoNobel and Maersk Line partner on sustainability
March 30, 2017 — AkzoNobel and leading global container shipping company Maersk Line have signed a strategic sustainability partnership to reduce carbon emissions per container shipped by 10%. Continue Reading…
MacGregor and R-R to collaborate on autonomous box ships
November 1, 2016 — While talk of autonomous operations in the maritime sector have swirled for years, the talk becomes reality as Automated Ships Ltd. (an M Subs Ltd subsidiary) and Norway’s Kongsberg Maritime signed a Memorandum of Understanding to build the world’s first unmanned and fully-automated vessel for offshore operations. Continue Reading…
Philly Shipyard delivers second LNG-ready tanker to APT
March 30, 2017 — (PHILADELPHIA) — Philly Shipyard Inc., the sole operating subsidiary of Philly Shipyard ASA, on Wednesday delivered American Freedom, the second of four next-generation 50,000-dwt product tankers that it is building for American Petroleum Tankers (APT), a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Inc. Continue Reading…
Big Data Makes Smuggling Harder to Hide
March 28, 2017 — For thousands of years, maritime authorities have relied on tip-offs, patrols, investigations and random inspections to find smuggled goods. Today they have a variety of additional methods at their disposal, and one of the most promising is also the most intuitive: looking at every vessel’s historical behavior. Continue Reading…
eMaritime Exchange app for seafarers launched
March 28, 2017 — The eMaritime Group, headed up by ECDIS Ltd, has launched a free social network app for seafarers called eMaritime Exchange, for Apple and Android devices. Continue Reading…
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