Category: Shipping

Good neighbourliness at TAMM Media: HANSA Yachts

Good neighbourliness at TAMM Media: HANSA Yachts

Gepostet von | 20 May 2024 | , , | 0

Congratulations, colleagues! The new website of the magazine "HANSA YACHTS" is here: www.hansa-yachts.com Every now and then we also publish reports about yachts in marineforum, but strictly speaking this is not really our core competence. However, as maritime experts we are often contacted on this subject, so we refer to our neighbours. After all, we live together in the TAMM Media Group. With ship descriptions, technological innovations, shipyard stories, interviews, market reports and "people news", the new website covers the entire spectrum of the yachting industry. It's all about technology, not Monaco gossip and blue press. So it's for professionals! Yacht owners,...

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China: Electric container ship starts liner service

China: Electric container ship starts liner service

Gepostet von | 15 May 2024 | , , , | 0

The "Greenwater 01" (project no. N997) developed by China Ocean Shipping Group Company (COSCO) is designed for long-haul transport, is 120 metres long and, with a payload of 10,000 tonnes for up to 700 "twenty-foot equivalent units" (TEU), is the world's largest all-electric container ship to date. The "Greenwater 01" was successfully launched at the end of July 2023. It has now been put into service and has started its weekly liner service between Shanghai and Nanjing. The route covers more than 300 kilometres along the Yangtze River. Series shipbuilding According to COSCO, the second ship, project no. N998, has been under construction since May 2023 and...

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Detained ship allowed to leave German harbour

Detained ship allowed to leave German harbour

Gepostet von | 8 May 2024 | , , , | 0

A Russian cargo ship coming from Saint Petersburg has been detained by German customs since 4 March on suspicion of violating European sanctions against Russia. After weeks of checks, the ship was allowed to leave the port of Rostock in mid-April. The 193 metre long "Atlantic Navigator II" is managed by a Canadian shipping company and sails under the flag of the Marshall Islands. The ship was carrying 251 containers of birch wood for the USA. Although timber is subject to EU sanctions, it is not subject to US sanctions, according to the public prosecutor's office. It was also carrying enriched uranium for US customers, which is also subject to US and EU sanctions.

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Kiel Canal: Expansion progressing

Kiel Canal: Expansion progressing

Gepostet von | 8 May 2024 | , , , | 0

The eastern section of the Kiel Canal (NOK) is currently being widened, as large ships cannot pass each other in this section in some areas, resulting in waiting times and sometimes damage to the banks. Freighters are getting bigger and bigger and the NOK is being prepared by the Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration (WSV) for the shipping traffic of the future. On the stretch between Großkönigsförde (Rendsburg-Eckernförde district) and Kiel-Holtenau, the canal is being widened in several sections to a minimum bed width of 70 metres, including increasing the radii of tight bends. The first section between Großkönigsförde and Schinkel - construction began in January 2020 - is currently...

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Denmark tightens environmental rules

Denmark tightens environmental rules

Gepostet von | 6 May 2024 | , , , | 0

The Danish government has announced a regulation that will ban the discharge of ship wastewater from open exhaust gas cleaning systems (scrubbers) into Danish territorial waters from 1 July 2025. Scrubbers are used to comply with the limit value for the sulphur content of exhaust gases set by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in 2020. Such exhaust gas cleaning systems use a chemical solution (seawater and caustic soda) to "wash" sulphur out of the flue gases. The wash water then contains heavy metals (mercury, lead, arsenic, etc.), nitrates, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and sulphur: a toxic mixture that changes the pH value and makes the water acidic! Because there is no further purification step in open systems,...

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