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August 24th – Panama Canal waiting time for non booked vessels (Days)
Panama Canal waiting time for non booked vessels (Days) Improvement of -4 days for southbound Neopanamaxs, whilst for Northbound’s today it shows an increase of 1 day (average). As for Panamax Locks, Northbound Supers and Regulars Non-booked waiting times went from 5 to 2 days. See last seven days Non-Booked…
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Tragic death of 21-year old Ukrainian sailor
Ukrainian industry news outlet Seafarer News reported tragic death of a 21-year old Ukrainian seaman on board of Greek bulk carrier MELPOMENI, on Aug 18. According to the story, young seaman was working all day through under scorching sun, moving heavy weights like tools and supplies. He felt sick, and…
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Huisman proposes harsh environment semi-sub to provide greenest fossil fuel and energy security
Huisman is working towards the energy transition, developing numerous solutions for the harvesting of renewable energy. This includes those for offshore and onshore wind as well as geothermal energy. However, to ensure energy security during the transition, the company continues to develop increasingly sustainable solutions for conventional energy production. This…
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Boskalis Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) announces that an Extraordinary Meeting of Shareholders (the Meeting) was held this morning. Approximately seventy shareholders representing in total 264,057 shares had registered to attend the Meeting, equal to 0.2 percent of the outstanding share capital. The Supervisory Board and Board of Management discussed HAL’s…
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Royal IHC to provide new cable lay system for Boskalis
Royal IHC is delighted to announce the award of a significant contract from Boskalis for the delivery of an advanced modular cable lay spread (MCLS). The state-of-the-art cable lay system will be used for installation of inter-array power cables and its cable protection system (CPS) in offshore windfarms. The…
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Dr. Wafaa Al-Antali to “eBlueeconomy” The sea is always present in my writing, engraved in my memory
The sea represents the homeland to the UAE society Our family’s work was based on the sea and it continued as well; they had a whole fleet of wooden ships. Khorfakkan film by the Governor of Sharjah, His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan Al Qasimi, about the city of Khorfakkan overlooking…
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ICS : Shipping industry to remove the Indian Ocean High Risk Area
London, UK. After more than a decade of effective threat-reducing counter-piracy operations the shipping industry has removed the ‘Indian Ocean High Risk Area’ (HRA). Notification of the removal of the HRA from 0001 UTC on 1 January 2023 by industry bodies was forwarded in a submission today, 22 August, to the…
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Canada and Germany Sign Agreement to Enhance German Energy Security with Clean Canadian Hydrogen
As Russia continues to weaponize energy in its illegal war with Ukraine, Canada is working with European partners to strengthen global energy security and accelerate the global clean energy transition. To these ends, Canada’s allies in Europe have initiated efforts to displace imports of Russian oil and gas in the…
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Italy 14th in the world for global connections of container lines
After the progression recorded in 2020, the score attributed to the Peninsula by Unctad with its Liner Shipping Connectivity Index remains essentially stable At the end of the second quarter of 2022, Italy was (like the previous one) still in 14th place in the ranking of the most interconnected countries…
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