DNV GL has presented Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) with a general approval for ship application (GASA) for a new concept of very large crude carriers (VLCCs) with a centreline oil-tight longitudinal bulkhead. The new design will reduce potential damage and operational risk by featuring a simpler structural arrangement, loading patterns and piping arrangements. Vidar Dolonen, […]
According to its Latin American service strategy, SCHOTTEL do Brasil will soon be able to offer more services for existing and new marine customers in a new service center located in Itajaí, Santa Catarina. After German propulsion specialist SCHOTTEL enabled its Brazilian subsidiary to acquire land in 2019, the construction work has been making progress. […]
Neutral Air Partner, the premier global network of leading and independent air cargo logistics providers, recently launched its Global Airline Partner Program. The Hong Kong organisation has appointed Sam Okpro to lead the new programme. Sam comes with an extensive experience in the air cargo logistics and aviation sector, having held senior management roles in […]
The gradual route to recovery to pre-COVID market conditions continued for the global air cargo industry in August for a fourth-consecutive month, according to fresh volume and yield data from two of the industry’s leading analysts, CLIVE Data Services and TAC Index. Year-on-year growth for the full four weeks of August showed a further narrowing […]
The aviation sector can play a part in mitigating the risk of future disease events and pandemics by strengthening efforts to combat animal smuggling, according to a new analysis. The brief, Animal Smuggling in Air Transport and Preventing Zoonotic Spillover, produced by C4ADS as part of the USAID Reducing Opportunities for Unlawful Transport of Endangered […]
Air Transport Services Group has announced that its subsidiary, TriFactor Solutions, has been awarded a contract to design and install a multi-divert sortation system in Xenia, Ohio, for Passion Growers of Miami. The project includes the design and installation of an automated system to sort inbound cases for Passion Growers’ shipping operation, improving its overall […]
With first emergency use authorisations for COVID-19 vaccines expected to be effective in Q4 2020, logistics providers are challenged to rapidly establish medical supply chains to deliver serums of unparalleled amounts of more than ten billion doses worldwide. DHL, working with McKinsey & Company as analytics partner, is publishing a white paper on delivering stable […]
The global debate on the live export of animals is again gaining attention as groups in South Africa have renewed their efforts to block the export of live sheep to the Middle East. In the past, other groups in Australia and New Zealand have bought similar battles, winning cases to limit but not stop the […]
[Brief] One contractor was killed and another injured during maintenance operations at the Petronas LNG terminal at the port of Bintulu, Sarawak, reported state energy company Petronas on Monday. The accident occurred at about 1400 hours during work on the facility’s acid gas removal unit drain system. Both contractors were sent to the hospital, where […]
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority is launching an investigation into the problems with the construction of the giant FPSO for Equinor’s new Johan Castberg offshore development. “The PSA became aware on 25 June 2020 that Equinor had identified major challenges with the quality of welds in the hull of the Johan Castberg floating production storage and […]
A new collaboration between academia and industry partners is being launched to define sustainability criteria for marine fuels. Working under the Green Shipping Project, the Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) and Copenhagen Business School Maritime (CBS) are launching a new partnership to bring clarity to the sustainability issues surrounding the alternative fuels under consideration for shipping’s […]
The United States’s first commercial tri-fuel powered vessel is being introduced with the addition of battery power to an existing vessel. Fourteen months after announcing that it had retained ABS to class the conversion of two of its PSV vessels to operate on battery power, as well as their existing LNG and diesel fuel systems, […]
