Category: Shipping

LNG for car transporters

LNG for car transporters

Gepostet von | 18 Jan 2021 | , | 0

The Japanese shipping company Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha ("K" Line) aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by building LNG-powered ships and expanding its LNG bunkering business as part of its "Environmental Vision 2050". Its LNG bunkering vessel Kaguya recently carried out the first ship-to-ship bunkering in Japan, making a piece of Japanese shipping history. The environmentally friendly fuel was used to fill the tanks of the new car carrier Sakura Leader, which has space for 7,000 vehicles and was delivered to the shipping company Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) by the shipyard Shin Kurushima Toyohashi Shipbuilding shortly afterwards. The 81.7-metre-long Kaguya, which only entered service in 2020 and is measured at 4044 GT, was...

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Change in the MCN Board of Directors

Change in the MCN Board of Directors

Gepostet von | 14 Jan 2021 | , , | 0

Change of state representation on the board of the Maritime Cluster Northern Germany (MCN): Andreas Richter, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg Ministry of Economics and Innovation, is succeeded by Dr Niels Kämpny from the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour, Transport and Digitalisation. This means that Lower Saxony will take over the annually rotating representation of the five coastal federal states on the MCN e. V. board and the chairmanship of the state coordination committee in 2021. "Back in 2016, when the MCN was founded, the state of Lower Saxony provided us with advice and support. In view of the current challenges in the maritime industry, which are reflected in our fields of action, we are looking forward to further dialogue...

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SPAIN: Sailing training ship JUAN SEBASTIAN DE ELCANO leaves port

SPAIN: Sailing training ship JUAN SEBASTIAN DE ELCANO leaves port

Gepostet von | 14 Dec 2020 | , , | 0

The training ships' trips abroad also look very different in times of coronavirus. On 24 August, the training sailing ship JUAN SEBASTIAN DE ELCANO set sail from a quarantine zone in the port of Cadiz in south-west Spain on its 93rd training voyage. The special thing about it was that it was not just the fifth circumnavigation of the almost hundred-year-old four-masted topsail schooner. This round-the-world voyage is being organised to mark the 500th anniversary of the voyage of discovery of its namesake, who completed the voyage started by Magellan with five ships and 270 men after three years - with just 18 men and one ship. Times have changed. Before the expiry date...

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CHINA: 170 days at sea without land contact

CHINA: 170 days at sea without land contact

Gepostet von | 11 Dec 2020 | , , | 0

Since December 2008, the Chinese People's Liberation Navy has been participating in international maritime defence operations in the Gulf of Aden. The last contingent, consisting of the destroyer Taiyuan (Luyang III class, type 052D), the frigate Jingzhou (Jiangkai II, type 054A) and the supply ship Chaohu, returned to its home port of Zhoushan south of Shanghai in mid-October. In the previous six months, the convoy had escorted almost fifty predominantly Chinese cargo ships in the crisis region, travelling 100,000 nautical miles as a trio. Since leaving Zhoushan at the end of April this year, the three ships are said to have had no land contact whatsoever to avoid any possibility of infection: 170 days at sea! Not...

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CHILE: Divine service on two sailing school ships

CHILE: Divine service on two sailing school ships

Gepostet von | 11 Dec 2020 | , , | 0

High noon, 20th October, Magellan Strait in rocky Tierra del Fuego. At one of the narrowest points in the channel, two sail training ships meet that could be sister ships. Both topsail schooners, the Chilean Esmeralda and the Spanish Juan Sebastian De Elcano, originally come from the naval stronghold of Cadiz. The Chilean ship is a replica that was actually intended for the Spanish navy before it was realised that a training ship was also sufficient. Today, 500 years after the first circumnavigation by Magellan and his successor Elcano, both tall ships met in the Bahia de Fortescue and commemorated the brave explorers in a joint service. Where Brother Pedro...

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