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DARPA Proceeds To Build Prototype Unmanned Underwater Vehicle

DARPA Proceeds To Build Prototype Unmanned Underwater Vehicle

DARPA, the U.S. Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, awarded phase 2 contracts to build and test concepts for unmanned...
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COSCO Singapore Sells Dry Bulk Division To COSCO Hong Kong

COSCO Singapore Sells Dry Bulk Division To COSCO Hong Kong

State-owned shipping giant China COSCO is so large that it occasionally makes sense for its subsidiaries to sell their unwanted...
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Pavilion Energy, QatarEnergy And Chevron Launch GHG Reporting Methodology For Delivered LNG Cargoes

Pavilion Energy, QatarEnergy And Chevron Launch GHG Reporting Methodology For Delivered LNG Cargoes

Pavilion Energy Trading & Supply Pte. Ltd.1 (“Pavilion Energy”), QatarEnergy and Chevron U.S.A. Inc (Singapore branch) (“Chevron”) recently announced they...
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World’s First Super-Large Ethane Carrier Delivered In Shanghai

World’s First Super-Large Ethane Carrier Delivered In Shanghai

Capable of shipping 99,000 cubic meters of liquefied gas across the Pacific Ocean, the world’s first very large ethane carrier...
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One Killed, Four Burned in December At Bangladeshi Shipbreaking Yards

One Killed, Four Burned in December At Bangladeshi Shipbreaking Yards

The shipbreaking industry in the Chattogram area of Bangladesh continues to experience a high number of workplace accidents. In December...
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The Port Authority Of Valencia Carries Out An Eco-Efficiency Analysis As Part Of The ECOPORT III Project

The Port Authority Of Valencia Carries Out An Eco-Efficiency Analysis As Part Of The ECOPORT III Project

The eco-efficiency study has been carried out by researchers from the Centre for Research in Project Management, Innovation and Sustainability...
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KR grants AiP For Two Green Ammonia-Fueled Ships

KR grants AiP For Two Green Ammonia-Fueled Ships

South Korean classification society Korean Register (KR) awarded approval in principle (AiP) to two green ammonia-fueled ships at KR’s Seoul...
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North Korea Commissions First Domestically Built Cargo Ship In 5 Years

North Korea Commissions First Domestically Built Cargo Ship In 5 Years

North Korean state media is hailing the commissioning of a new, domestically built cargo ship. By all indications, it may...
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Höegh LNG Charters FSRU To Compass’ Brazilian LNG Terminal

Höegh LNG Charters FSRU To Compass’ Brazilian LNG Terminal

Bermuda-based Höegh LNG Holdings has completed and signed all documentation for a 10-year FSRU charter with Terminal de Regaseificação de...
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Pavilion Energy Inks Deal To Supply Small-Scale LNG To Hangjiaxin

Pavilion Energy Inks Deal To Supply Small-Scale LNG To Hangjiaxin

Pavilion Energy Trading & Supply Pte. Ltd.1(“Pavilion Energy”) and Zhejiang Hangjiaxin Clean Energy Co., Ltd.2 (“Hangjiaxin”) have signed a term...
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Wakashio Captain, 1st Officer Get 20 Months In Prison For Causing Mauritius Oil Spill

Wakashio Captain, 1st Officer Get 20 Months In Prison For Causing Mauritius Oil Spill

A court in Mauritius has handed a 20-month prison sentence to the captain and first officer of Wakashio, a Japanese...
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Sumitomo Corporation And Keppel Offshore & Marine Enter MOU To Explore Ammonia Fuel Business In Singapore

Sumitomo Corporation And Keppel Offshore & Marine Enter MOU To Explore Ammonia Fuel Business In Singapore

Sumitomo Corporation and Keppel FELS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), have signed a Memorandum...
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Zvezda Cuts Steel For New Arctic LNG 2 Carrier

Zvezda Cuts Steel For New Arctic LNG 2 Carrier

Russian shipyard Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex held a steel-cutting ceremony for the third ARC 7 icebreaking LNG carrier for the Arctic...
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World’s 1st Zero-Emission All-Electric Tanker Launched In Japan

World’s 1st Zero-Emission All-Electric Tanker Launched In Japan

Japanese shipping company Asahi Tanker has launched and named the first of its two next-generation all-electric tankers ordered in 2020. The ceremony...
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New Pipeline Leak In Southern California Waters

New Pipeline Leak In Southern California Waters

Officials in California are investigating a new pipeline leak in San Pedro Bay, California, near the congested ports of Los...
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ClassNK Releases Amendments To Class Rules

ClassNK Releases Amendments To Class Rules

Leading Classification Society ClassNK has released amendments to its Rules and Guidance for the Survey and Construction of Steel Ships...
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Yemeni Minister’s Report Of Oil Leak From FSO Safer Is Disputed

Yemeni Minister’s Report Of Oil Leak From FSO Safer Is Disputed

The fate of the aging FSO Safer off the west coast of Yemen caught in the politics of the war-torn region was...
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World’s First Liquefied Hydrogen Tanker Departs Japan

World’s First Liquefied Hydrogen Tanker Departs Japan

The world’s first liquefied hydrogen carrier left Japan on Friday to pick up its first cargo in Australia, with a...
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Product Tanker Sinks In The Bahamas After Being Hit By Luxury Yacht

Product Tanker Sinks In The Bahamas After Being Hit By Luxury Yacht

A Belize-registered product tanker operating in the Bahamas sunk after it was “rear-ended by a 207-foot super yacht,” according to...
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Port Of Oakland Step Closer To Zero Emissions With New Grant

Port Of Oakland Step Closer To Zero Emissions With New Grant

Port of Oakland's clean energy efforts are getting a $5.2 million boost from the US government. The port is receiving...
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