Category: Shipping

Shipping company and sailors develop unique concept

Shipping company and sailors develop unique concept

Gepostet von | 19 Jan 2024 | , , , | 0

Hamburg: The merchant shipping industry is under pressure. The EU wants the European fleet to be climate-neutral by 2050. To achieve this goal, shipping companies are experimenting with innovative forms of propulsion. These include hydrogen-based fuels, but also age-old methods such as sail propulsion. The long-established Hamburg shipping company Hapag-Lloyd is currently developing a container ship with sail propulsion. Marineforum.online reported on this on 18 December 2023, but now further details have been announced and the internationally renowned sailing professional Boris Herrmann from "Team Malizia" is now a partner of Hapag-Lloyd. Concept The plan is to build a new ship with a load capacity of 4,500 standard 20-foot containers. According to the current design, the freighter will be 261 metres...

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Russia's LNG projects make progress despite sanctions

Russia's LNG projects make progress despite sanctions

Gepostet von | 18 Jan 2024 | , , , , | 0

Russia's largest producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG), Novatek, has completed the first line of its "Arctic LNG 2" project despite US and EU sanctions. The first LNG deliveries are scheduled to be shipped in the first quarter of 2024. PROFILE Arctic LNG 2 will have three production strings that can produce a total of 19.8 million tonnes per year. Each line will therefore have a capacity of 6.6 million tonnes. The other two production lines are expected to go into operation by 2026. Special feature: each production line will not be firmly founded in the permafrost, as is usually the case, but will be floating on gravity-based structures (GBS) in the Gulf of Ob....

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Seabird of the year 2024: the red-throated diver

Seabird of the year 2024: the red-throated diver

Gepostet von | 14 Jan 2024 | , , | 0

Every year since 2014, the "Jordsand Association for the Protection of Seabirds and Nature" from Ahrensburg (Stormarn district) has chosen a seabird species that exemplifies a particular problem. In 2024, it is the red-throated diver, which, like many other seabirds, is particularly threatened by the numerous wind turbines in the sea. Red List The red-throated diver is the smallest representative of the loon species and is listed as critically endangered as a migratory bird species in Germany. The intensive expansion of offshore wind power over the past ten years has been a "serious burden" for the red-throated diver, as it has to avoid wind farm areas within a radius of around ten kilometres...

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Piracy at sea: ICC IMB reports further increase in 2023 annual report

Piracy at sea: ICC IMB reports further increase in 2023 annual report

Gepostet von | 11 Jan 2024 | , , | 1

From a press release by the Berlin office of the International Maritime Bureau of the ICC. On 11 January 2024, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in London published its 2023 Annual Report on Piracy and Armed Robbery at Sea, recording an increase in incidents (120) compared to the previous year (115). 105 ships were boarded, nine attacks were attempted, four ships were hijacked and two ships were fired upon. The IMB warns in particular of the increasing danger to ship crews: The number of crew members taken hostage or kidnapped rose from 41 to 73 and from 2 to 14 respectively. A further ten crew members were...

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Russia fails to be re-elected to the IMO Council

Russia fails to be re-elected to the IMO Council

Gepostet von | 11 Jan 2024 | , , | 0

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO), based in London, is responsible for regulating the safety of international shipping and preventing pollution and comprises 176 member states. Russia has been a member since 1958 and has always been re-elected to the IMO Council. Last year, for the first time, Russia did not receive enough votes for re-election to the UN Maritime Organisation's Governing Body after Ukraine, which did not stand for election, pushed for Russia to be excluded. In a televised address to the IMO assembly, the Ukrainian president said that Russia had no place in the International Maritime Organisation or its governing bodies, because no one...

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