Category: Shipping

Netherlands: Frigate TROMP has sailed

Netherlands: Frigate TROMP has sailed

Gepostet von | 20 Mar 2024 | , , , , | 0

The Dutch government has informed the House of Representatives and the public that HNLMS "Tromp" (De Zeven Provinciën class, 144 metres) will also be transiting the Red Sea on its way to the Indo-Pacific. The anti-aircraft frigate left Den Helder on 9 March and will support the US-led maritime operation Prosperity Guardian for around 25 days at the end of March and will also exchange information with the EU operation Aspides (Shield), to which the German anti-aircraft frigate HESSEN also belongs, and provide support on request. The aim of both operations is to fend off attacks by the Houthis on civilian shipping in the Red Sea. In addition, the government is examining...

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MAN - First ammonia engine before installation

MAN - First ammonia engine before installation

Gepostet von | 14 Mar 2024 | , , , | 0

The shipping industry transports around 90 % of global trade and is therefore responsible for around three per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions. Reason enough to research ammonia as one of several alternative fuels. Test phase MAN Energy Solutions (MAN ES) is planning to install the first ammonia-powered engine on a new ship in Japan before the end of this year. The subsequent testing of the dual-fuel engine will take one to two years. If the two-stroke ammonia marine engine is successfully tested, MAN will have reached a milestone, but at the same time intensive investments will have to be made in fuel supply and bunker infrastructure and further safety standards will have to be created, according to the MAN ES CEO, who...

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Remote-controlled inland navigation

Remote-controlled inland navigation

Gepostet von | 13 Mar 2024 | , , , | 0

Duisburg: Now that the first pilotless "ghost ships" are sailing on Belgium's waterways, ships are set to follow on German waterways. In future, the captains will no longer be on board, but on land. For a few weeks now, a Belgian captain has been sitting at a desk in the former Haniel offices in Duisburg-Ruhrort. With headphones in front of four computer terminals and six camera screens, he steers an inland freighter across the Belgian Plassendale-Nieuwpoort Canal and the River Yser, over 300 kilometres away. Two controllers are all the Fleming needs to keep the unmanned "Watertruck 8" loaded with excavated earth on course. Skilled labour shortage In the Duisburg control centre, this is the first time that the...

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USA Environmental protection: "Clean Ports Programme" worth billions

USA Environmental protection: "Clean Ports Programme" worth billions

Gepostet von | 7 Mar 2024 | , , , | 0

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched a €2.8 billion programme for clean ports. The programme aims to invest in zero-emission port equipment and infrastructure to help tackle the climate crisis and improve air quality. Decarbonisation The climate investment is intended to reduce pollution from fossil fuels in US port logistics and replace it with clean technologies such as electrification and hydrogen fuel cells. At the same time, port workers and the population are to be protected from harmful air pollution and well-paid jobs are to be created, including jobs that do not require a university degree. This programme was launched in 2022 as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, a subsidy programme for manufacturing in...

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"Gorch Fock" leaves Kiel for Africa

"Gorch Fock" leaves Kiel for Africa

Gepostet von | 6 Mar 2024 | , , | 0

From a press release by Rostock Naval Command On Friday, 8 March 2024 at 10 a.m., the German Navy's sail training ship will leave its home port of Kiel to begin its 177th overseas training voyage (AAR). This time, the barque will only set sail with its regular crew. 115 officer cadets from the 2023 crew will not board until 22 March 2024 in the Spanish port of Gijon. The voyage will take the "Gorch Fock" on to Tangier (Morocco) and Porto (Portugal), where the crew change will take place and "new" officer trainees will come on board. Cadets from France, Ghana, Cameroon, Colombia, Senegal, Thailand and Togo will take part in the training programme.

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