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China's Ministry of Transport fines eight container lines.

Why decarbonizing marine transportation might not be smooth sailing.

Transport maritime : COSCO fait une offre sur son rival hongkongais OOIL.

EU Okays Belgian Tax Measures for Maritime Transport.

The World Bank today published new research on decarbonizing the maritime transport sector with findings that indicate significant business and development opportunities for countries, including for developing and emerging economies.

Marine transport: harnessing the power of the wind.

A 100 % electrically powered ferry prototype will help the maritime industry bring about carbon-free transport.

Globally, movements of commercial vessels can facilitate the spread of marine non-indigenous species (NIS) beyond their current biogeographic ranges. Authorities at potential destination locations employ a number of biosecurity risk assessment strategies to estimate threat levels from potential origin locations, vulnerability levels of specific destination regions, or the consequences of successful establishment of particular NIS species. Among the many factors and processes that have an influence on the probability that NIS will survive transport and establish successfully at new locations, vessel type has been identified as an important risk factor. Different vessel types have different structural and operational characteristics that affect their overall level of marine biosecurity risk. Several recent studies have examined subsets of vessel types or vessel characteristics for their ability to spread NIS. While high-quality information is available via these endeavors, it is fragmented and not readily available as an integrated resource to support biosecurity regulators or other end-users. In this study, we synthesize available empirical data on a wide range of vessel types and characteristics to develop a framework that allows systematic quantification of the relative risk of NIS transfer by common commercial vessel types. We explain our approach for constructing the framework, from selection of key risk factors for inclusion, to selection of which datasets to use for those risk factors. The framework output is a set of risk scores which denote the relative biosecurity risk of common commercial vessel types. To demonstrate a potential application of our framework, we applied the risk scores to vessel visit data for commercial ports around New Zealand and assigned a relative risk level per port based on the arrival frequencies of different vessel types. The resulting per-port risk levels matched closely with the results of a prior benchmark study that employed sta

The Review of Maritime Transport 2023 urges swift action and system-wide collaboration to decarbonize maritime Transport amid growing carbon emissions and regulatory uncertainty.

- New research from the Tyndall Centre at the University of Manchester highlights an urgent global need for investment in green fuels this decade to meet the Paris Climate goals. - Report says shipping will be crucial in transporting green fuels, and shipments of ammonia and bioenergy could grow to the same levels as shipping of gas and coal today. - 20 new large ammonia carriers must be built every year to meet potential demand, but investment in production and transport infrastructure is being held back by weak policy support with only 4% of current commitments actually being funded.

UNCTAD's Review of Maritime Transport 2022, an annual comprehensive review of global maritime Transport, warns that the maritime sector will require greater investment in infrastructure and sustainability to weather future supply chain crises.

Maritime transportation is crucial to national economic development as it offers a low-cost, safe, and efficient alternative for movement of freight compared to its land or air counterparts. River and channel dredging protocols are often adopted in many ports and harbors of the world to meet the increasing demand for freight and ensure safe passage of larger vessels. However, such protocols may have unintended adverse consequences on flood risks and functioning of coastal ecosystems and thereby compromising the valuable services they provide to society and the environment. This study analyzes the compound effects of dredging protocols under a range of terrestrial and coastal flood drivers, including the effects of sea level rise (SLR) on compound flood risk, vessel navigability, and coastal wetland inundation dynamics in Mobile Bay (MB), Alabama. We develop a set of hydrodynamic simulation scenarios for a range of river flow and coastal water level regimes, SLR projections, and dredging protocols designed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. We show that channel dredging helps increase bottom ('underkeel') clearances by a factor of 3.33 under current mean sea level and from 4.20 to 4.60 under SLR projections. We find that both low and high water surface elevations (WSEs) could be detrimental, with low WSE (< -1.22 m) hindering safe navigation whereas high WSE (> 0.87 m) triggering minor to major flooding in the surrounding urban and wetland areas. Likewise, we identify complex inundation patterns emerging from nonlinear interactions of SLR, flood drivers, and dredging protocols, and additionally estimate probability density functions (PDFs) of wetland inundation. We show that changes in mean sea level due to SLR diminish any effects of channel dredging on wetland inundation dynamics and shift the PDFs beyond pre-established thresholds for moderate and major flooding. In light of our results, we recommend the need for integrated analyses that account for compound

Port accessibility is an important factor in the efficiency of a port collection and distribution systems. And the carbon emission of the collection and transportation system is large, which is an important factor that cannot be ignored when constructing the collection and transportation system. In order to analyze the carbon emission characteristics of the port collection and distribution system, the paper incorporates the carbon emission factor into the accessibility measurement of the port collection and distribution system. To solve the problem of unbalanced demand of each logistics node, the distribution of logistics demand in the system is realized by the method based on the appropriate freight volume. The carbon emission cost factor is introduced, and the accessibility measurement model based on the generalized cost impedance function is constructed. Taking the collection and distribution system of Douala Port in West Africa as an example to verify, the results show that, after adding the carbon emission factor, the accessibility of each logistics node shows different degrees of decline which shows that the addition of the carbon emission factor can be more comprehensive and can reflect the accessibility of the system.

The application of a proactive grooming program to manage the fouling control coatings applied to ship hulls provides an opportunity to address the climate crisis, invasive species and the discharge of biocides into the marine environment. A large percentage of the total power required to propel a ship is to overcome the viscous drag created between the hull and the water. The powering penalty due to increases in coating roughness and the development of biofouling are well documented. In addition, poorly maintained fouling control coatings may lead to the transportation of invasive species. In-water hull cleaning is therefore an important part of ship operations; however, this is typically implemented as a reactive measure when fouling reaches a critical level and requires powerful machinery which damages the coatings, creates unwanted discharge and in many locations the discharge will require capture and disposal. Ship hull grooming is being developed as a proactive method to manage fouling control coatings that will ensure that they are maintained in a smooth and fouling free condition, there is no transport of invasive species or excessive discharge of material that occurs during cleaning. This manuscript will summarize the findings of many years of research and development.

What CO2 savings are potentially attainable through a better choice of the ship's route? What is the role of waves and currents in an optimal route? The new web tool GUTTA-VISIR for ferry eco-routes shows how least-CO2 ferry routes could reduce the environmental footprint of the maritime transport in the Adriatic Sea.

Egyptian ferry "PELLA" with 1,230 passengers catches fire in Red Sea.

Le Groupe CMA CGM, un leader mondial du transport maritime, a le plaisir d'annoncer que le CMA CGM Bougainville, est entré en flotte et devient le plus grand porte-conteneur au monde battant pavillon français. C'est le 4ème navire d'une capacité de 18 000 EVP (Equivalent Vingt Pieds) issue d'une série de navires portant le nom des Grands explorateurs. Il rend hommage à l'explorateur français Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, qui a mené en tant que capitaine le premier tour du monde officiel français au XVIIIème siècle.

Le Groupe CMA CGM, un leader mondial du transport maritime, a le plaisir d'annoncer que le CMA CGM Bougainville, est entré en flotte et devient le plus grand porte-conteneur au monde battant pavillon français. C'est le 4ème navire d'une capacité de 18 000 EVP (Equivalent Vingt Pieds) issue d'une série de navires portant le nom des Grands explorateurs. Il rend hommage à l'explorateur français Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, qui a mené en tant que capitaine le premier tour du monde officiel français au XVIIIème siècle.

First came the cab and then the boat. Only a year after starting operations in Turkey, US ride-sharing giant Uber has launched a boat service across the Bosphorus, transporting people from Europe to Asia with UberBOAT.

First came the cab and then the boat. Only a year after starting operations in Turkey, US ride-sharing giant Uber has launched a boat service across the Bosphorus, transporting people from Europe to Asia with UberBOAT.

Cruise ship with 262 aboard evacuated off Norway.

The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) has urged multi-billion dollar American corporation Alcoa to reassess its decision to sack

The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) has urged multi-billion dollar American corporation Alcoa to reassess its decision to sack