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Ship Emissions Pollute Hong Kong Air

December 23, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Marine vessel emissions cause up to half of Hong Kong’s locally produced air pollution, CNN reports. The number of smog-filled days has increased by 28 percent to 303 so far this year with particle levels in one urban area, Sham Shui Po, reaching “very dangerous” levels last week, according to ... Read more »

Siemens Awarded Ballast Water Technology Patent

December 11, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The US Patent Office has awarded Siemens Water Technologies a patent for a system and method to control biofouling of filters used as a first stage of treating ballast water in its SeaCure Ballast Water Management System. The patent, titled Method and System for Biofouling Control of Shipboard Components (US ... Read more »

Ballast Water Treatment Market to Hit $3.14B in Revenues by 2023

December 10, 2013December 11, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

Revenues for the global ballast water treatment system market will skyrocket from $466.6 million in 2013 to $3.14 billion by 2023 at a compound annual growth rate of 21 percent, as new regulations drive sales of the technology, according an analysis by Frost & Sullivan. The Global Ballast Water Treatment ... Read more »

Big Data Improves Shipping Supply Chain Sustainability, Visibility

October 30, 2013October 30, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Inttra, the world’s largest multi-carrier e-commerce network for ocean shipping, is launching three initiatives that it says will improve supply chain sustainability and visibility by using big data. Only 9 percent of logistics professionals have complete visibility into their supply chains because of the lack of access to quality data ... Read more »

Emissions Rules Set to Increase Shipping Costs

October 9, 2013October 9, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A European Union proposal to regulate ships’ carbon emissions will likely increase shipping costs, reports Hellenic Shipping News. Maritime transport is the only transport mode not included in the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets, the trade publication says. Shipping is responsible for 4 percent of Europe’s total GHGs and ... Read more »

Regulations Driving Ships to LNG

September 30, 2013 by Leon Walker

New regulations on engine exhaust coupled with relatively low natural gas prices are leading commercial maritime firms including Harvey Gulf International Marine and Sea Star Line to power their fleets using liquified natural gas, reports the Wall Street Journal. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulations will require ships operating within 200 ... Read more »

Contract Wins: Covanta, MHI, Veolia, URS, Maxwell Technologies

September 16, 2013 by Leon Walker

Covanta Marion, a subsidiary of Covanta Energy Corporation, and Marion County, Ore., have announced an agreement that extends sustainable waste disposal services for the county at the Covanta waste-to-energy facility (pictured), located in the Marion County. The new agreement, which is for up to five years, begins in September 2014 after the expiration ... Read more »

Port of Los Angeles Slashes Emissions

August 26, 2013August 26, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Air pollution associated with operations at the Port of Los Angeles is at its lowest level since the port adopted a formal plan to reduce emissions nearly seven years ago, according to the latest emissions data. The Port’s 2012 Inventory of Air Emissions shows a 79 percent drop in diesel ... Read more »

World’s Largest, Most Energy-Efficient Ship Completes Maiden Voyage

July 31, 2013July 31, 2013 by Leon Walker

The first of Mærsk Line’s new fleet of energy efficient Triple-E class cargo ships, the largest ship in the world, has completed its maiden voyage. The 400 meter-long Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, which is named after the company’s late owner, set sail from Busan, South Korea in the middle of July. The vessel made ... Read more »

MOL Tests NOx-Reducing SCR System

July 10, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) says it will install a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system on all three power generators of an MOL-operated oceangoing freighter for a demonstration test to ensure compliance with nitrogen oxides emissions rules. MOL, Yanmar and Namura Shipbuilding jointly developed the SCR system. This test will demonstrate ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Feds’ Carbon Cost, Ship Emissions, ‘Sue and Settle’

July 1, 2013July 1, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) introduced a bill that would force the White House to seek public feedback on its estimate for the social cost of carbon. The administration raised its estimate to $38 per metric ton in 2015, from $23.80, as part of standards for microwave ovens. But the calculation ... Read more »

Global Fresh Foods Ships Salmon Without Ice, Foam Packaging

April 3, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Global Fresh Foods’ technology is being used to ship fresh salmon from Chile by sea to the West Coast of the US without using ice, environmentally harmful polystyrene foam packaging, or costly and CO2 emissions-intensive air freight, the company says. GFF’s patented SAF-D system maintains a high CO2 and a ... Read more »

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