Greek proposal to EU on emissions trading

Greece Supports Emission Fund Telling EC Operators and Polluters Pay

Developing Prospects for Oceanic Geothermal Energy Conversion

By Harry Valentine 05-09-2021 11:27:10

While the earth’s core is believed to be molten material, the majority of the world’s active volcanoes are believed to be releasing vast amounts of thermal energy on the ocean floor. Accessing that thermal energy and producing electric power would require significant advances in existing deep-sea ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) technology. Introduction The combination of recreational and commercial diving revealed a difference in temperature between surface seawater and deeper seawater in tropical regions. While surface temperature of over 95...

Maldives Coast Guard Watches for Debris From China's Long March Rocket

By The Maritime Executive 05-09-2021 09:55:05

The Maldives' coast guard has launched a search for debris from a Chinese Long March 5B rocket that re-entered the atmosphere over the Indian Ocean on Saturday. After a successful launch on April 29, the 40,000 pound Long March 5B booster fell gradually back into the atmosphere in a planned uncontrolled descent. The potential area of re-entry spanned all locations between latitudes 41.5 N and 41.5 S, according to the European Space Agency. The uncontrolled nature of the re-entry drew...

U.S. Navy Cruiser Seizes Giant Shipment of Weapons in Arabian Sea

By The Maritime Executive 05-09-2021 07:11:00

The U.S. Navy has seized a massive shipment of arms from a stateless dhow in the Arabian Sea, U.S. defense officials announced on Sunday. The cruiser USS Monterrey intercepted the dhow on May 6 in international waters of the North Arabian Sea. An embarked U.S. Coast Guard interdiction team conducted a flag verification boarding and discovered a giant haul of infantry weapons: dozens of advanced Russian-made anti-tank guided missiles, thousands of Chinese Type 56 assault rifles, and hundreds of PKM...

Analysis: When Could China Be Ready for a Cross-Strait Invasion?

By The Strategist 05-09-2021 06:18:29

There’s rising concern about the prospect of a major military crisis erupting across the Taiwan Strait as a result of China’s intention to force Taiwan to unify with the mainland. President Xi Jinping suggested in early 2019 that China must be and will be reunified, and noted, "It is a historical conclusion drawn over the 70 years of the development of cross-Strait relations, and a must for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in the new era." He went...

Shipping

Greece Supports Emission Fund Telling EC Operators and Polluters Pay

Greece’s minister of shipping became the latest official to put forth a series of proposals to the European Commission as it prepared to complete the next phase of EU rules on emissions, including incorporate shipping into the ETS. The minister took a position supporting the concepts of an independent fund for the shipping industry which works off the principle that polluters pay. In a letter addressed to the European Commission, the Minister of Shipping and Island Policy, Ioannis Plakiotakis, calls...

Tugs & Salvage

Irish Coast Guard Rescues Trawler From Flooding in Heavy Weather

On Sunday, the Courtmacsherry RNLI lifeboat and the Irish Coast Guard came to the assistance of a trawler that had sustained a hull breach and flooding in rough weather off the coast of West Cork. At about 1100 hours Sunday morning, the RNLI received a distress call from a 75-foot fishing vessel located about 25 nm off the Old Head of Kinsale in West Cork. The lifeboat Frederick Storey Cockburn and her seven crewmembers got underway from Courtmacsherry's harbor within...

Government

Analysis: When Could China Be Ready for a Cross-Strait Invasion?

Piracy

Crewmember Attacked During Armed Robbery in Singapore Strait

The ReCAAP piracy reporting center has issued a new warning about the risk of boardings and armed robberies in the eastbound lane of the Singapore Strait traffic separation scheme. On April 17, two ships were boarded and robbed within the span of four hours - and in one incident, a crewmember was injured in a confrontation with the criminals. In the first incident, a product tanker was transiting the strait when the engineer on duty saw a robber attempting...

Cruise Ships

Cruise Industry Expresses Frustration with CDC and Florida Politics

The cruise industry is expressing its ongoing frustration at the uncertainties and lack of clear guidance which is delaying the resumption of service from U.S. ports. While other countries, including the U.K. and now Germany, have given clear guidance to restart cruises, and lines are moving forward with more programs from the Caribbean and European ports, political and industry leaders continue to call for efforts to clear the way for cruises to start sailing from U.S. ports. Responding to the...

Ports

PortMiami receives federal funds for shore power pilot project

PortMiami Receives Federal Money for Pilot Shore Power Program

PortMiami is proceeding with a pilot program to develop shore power to permit cruise ships in the port to begin cold ironing. The port is receiving a $2 million allocation from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Diesel Emissions Reduction Act to help fund the Shore Power Pilot Program. In the first phase of the pilot program, PortMiami and Carnival Cruise Line will be working together along with Florida Power and Light to bring shore power to the new Cruise Terminal...

Shipping

Greece Supports Emission Fund Telling EC Operators and Polluters Pay

Tugs & Salvage

Irish Coast Guard Rescues Trawler From Flooding in Heavy Weather

Government

Analysis: When Could China Be Ready for a Cross-Strait Invasion?

Piracy

Crewmember Attacked During Armed Robbery in Singapore Strait

Cruise Ships

Cruise Industry Expresses Frustration with CDC and Florida Politics

Ports

PortMiami Receives Federal Money for Pilot Shore Power Program

Offshore

Korea Adds Hydrogen Plant as it Approves Giant Floating Wind Farm Plan

Plans for Korea’s first large-scale floating offshore wind farm, proposed to be the largest in the world, cleared a key hurdle while a consortium of Korean companies also announced plans to add a plant to produce green hydrogen to the project. Known as Donghae 1, the East Sea project would build a 200 MW floating wind farm off Ulsan in South Korea close to the existing natural gas field. The Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC) and the Korean power company...

Shipbuilding

VSM: Asian Shipbuilding Subsidies Put German Shipyards at Risk

German shipbuilding association VSM is warning of the risk of an "irreversible loss" of skill in the country's powerhouse marine equipment and shipyard sectors due to distortions in international competition. Without government intervention at the national and EU level, warned VSM, Germany's yards run the risk of significant decline over the next decade. Like others, German shipbuilders have been losing ground to Asian competitors for general-purpose merchant vessels for many years, and the sector has been sustained by specialization in...

Environment

What Are the "Internal Waves" That May Have Sunk the Sub Nanggala?

[By Callum Shakespeare] Last week might have been the first time you ever heard of “internal waves” - the phenomenon suspected of causing the tragic sinking of the Indonesian submarine KRI Nanggala the previous week, resulting in the deaths of the 53 crew members. So it may surprise you to learn that you’ve doubtless encountered internal waves before. They exist all around us in the atmosphere and ocean, although they are usually invisible. If you’ve ever been on an aeroplane experiencing turbulence, you’ve...

Business

China's Climate Policy Has Major Implications for Trade

[By Stephen Minas] Diplomacy is not always diplomatic. This fact of international life was on full display during the recent meeting of top US and Chinese diplomats in Alaska. It has also frequently characterized the long-running United Nations climate negotiations – often with the same protagonists. A Chinese official’s declaration, prior to the ill-fated Copenhagen summit, that developed countries “would be getting a bill for a hundred years” of climate change is indicative of both tone and content. Underlying these confrontations...

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