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Our solution for having a potentially stinky situation arrive on our shores is working with our consumers and importers to ensure Australia is free of stink bugs!

Switching to ammonia as a marine fuel, with the goal of decarbonisation, can instead create entirely new problems. This is shown in a study from CHALMERS University of Technology in Sweden, where researchers carried out life cycle analyses for batteries and for three electrofuels including ammonia. Eutrophication and acidification are some of the environmental problems that can be traced to the use of ammonia - as well as emissions of laughing gas, which is a very potent greenhouse gas.

CSIRO and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore will jointly deliver the initiative, which aims to accelerate the decarbonisation of the maritime sector of both countries.

Discharge from ships with so-called scrubbers cause great damage to the Baltic Sea. A new study from CHALMERS University of Technology, Sweden, shows that these emissions caused pollution corresponding to socio-economic costs of more than EUR 680 million between 2014 and 2022. At the same time, the researchers note that the shipping companies' investments in the much-discussed technology, where exhaust gases are "washed" and discharged into the sea, have already been recouped for most of the ships. This means that the industry is now making billions of euros by running its ships on cheap heavy fuel oil instead of cleaner fuel.

HELMHOLTZ Innovation Platform and HX Hurtigruten Expeditions Try New Approaches in Ocean Observation.

The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) has today released its figures for the numbers of vessels abandoned in 2023 - which show a worrying increase on figures from the previous year.

The Houthis are attacking ships in the Red Sea. Rerouting via South Africa is expensive, whereas the Arctic route only takes a week. Once a no-go zone, this route might be a more realistic option. Mind the nuclear submarines, though…

Seaports act as hubs for the global spread of MtrBTN2,1 a rare contagious cancer affecting mussels. In this disease, cancer cells can be transmitted, like parasites, from one mussel to another nearby. While, in nature, such contagion mainly occurs between mussels in the same bed, ports and maritime transport facilitate the spread of MtrBTN2 to other locations, through biofouling, whereby diseased mussels attach themselves to ship hulls. This finding, the fruit of research by a team led by scientists from the CNRS and the University of Montpellier,2 will be published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B on February 21.