Category: Shipping

Russia's Arctic crude oil route

Russia's Arctic crude oil route

Gepostet von | 5 Jan 2024 | , , | 0

Russia once again shipped crude oil across the Arctic Ocean last year. This included the crude oil tanker "Primorsky Prospect" (approx. 113,900 tonnes, 250 metres long), which belongs to the Russian state tanker company Sovcomflot (SCF). It is one of the few tracked cargoes on this route from the Russian Ust-Luga in the Baltic Sea, along the Norwegian coast with destination Rizhao in China. However, eastbound shipping had to be suspended for this winter on 30 November 2023. The use of the so-called Northern Sea Route (NSR) through the Arctic waters could reduce transit time compared to the southern route through the Mediterranean and...

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Turkey: Black Sea navies agree on mine clearance

Turkey: Black Sea navies agree on mine clearance

Gepostet von | 4 Jan 2024 | , , , | 0

Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria are planning their first major joint operation to clear mines, after each country had previously cleared detected mines on its own. The defence ministers of the three countries are planning a signing ceremony in Istanbul on 11 January. Although the three countries are NATO allies, this is not a NATO operation. Turkey opposes the presence of naval units from other NATO countries in the Black Sea, arguing that they could further fuel tensions in the region. But of course Turkey would ask its allies for help if it was needed, according to the Turkish defence minister. The mines were...

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Trouble looms in Hamburg: "Cosco" calls union ver.di to the scene

Trouble looms in Hamburg: "Cosco" calls union ver.di to the scene

Gepostet von | 12 Dec 2023 | , , | 0

Hamburg: The Chinese state shipping company "Cosco" wants to secure containers on board itself in future - a service for which so-called "lashers" are usually employed. The Chinese state-owned shipping company "Cosco" has held a 24.9 per cent stake in the "Tollerort" terminal of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) since the summer. According to the trade union ver.di, however, "Cosco" now wants to leave the securing of containers on one of its feeder ships to the seafarers on board. For ver.di, this would be a breach of collective labour agreements - jobs are seen as being at risk. ver.di has called on "Cosco" to refrain from independently "lashing" and for HHLA to ensure that the seafarers at its Hamburg terminals...

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Ghost nets off Rügen

Ghost nets off Rügen

Gepostet von | 5 Dec 2023 | , , | 0

Divers from the German nature conservation organisation "Gesellschaft zur Rettung der Delphine e. V." (GRD) say they have recovered several hundred kilograms of old fishing nets from the Baltic Sea in recent weeks. Crime scene: fairway buoy A fairway buoy sank years ago about eight kilometres off the coast of Rügen. As a result, more and more so-called ghost nets became entangled in it. The tangles of nets and ropes now weighed several tonnes and could be retrieved from a depth of around 30 metres using lifting bags. However, due to the cramped situation at the buoy and the increasingly rough weather, it was not possible to retrieve all the nets. The operation is to...

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MeOHmare - MTU methanol engine for the shipping of the future

MeOHmare - MTU methanol engine for the shipping of the future

Gepostet von | 28 Nov 2023 | , , , | 0

Joint project to develop the marine engine of the future by 2025 According to a press release, the companies Rolls-Royce (MTU Friedrichshafen) and Woodward L'Orange (Einspritzsysteme Großmotoren Stuttgart) and the research centre WTZ Roßlau (Dessau) have been working on the new joint project "MeOHmare" since the beginning of 2023, which is being funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) with eight million euros. The three companies are to develop a concept for a high-speed combustion engine for ships that can be operated with green methanol (e-methanol) in a CO2-neutral manner by the end of 2025. Fuel for future ship propulsion systems Green hydrogen is produced by electrolysis using renewable electricity. This hydrogen can be produced by synthesis and with the addition of...

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