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IMO makes further progress on EEDI application
Addresses concerns about underpowered ships and continues work to include more ship types in EEDI framework.
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Fish farmer agrees to tougher environmental standards
Move follows criticisms of company practices.
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Update of IMO GHG study gets go-ahead
Previous study pegged international shipping's bunker consumption at 277 million mt, contributing 2.7% of global man-made CO2 emissions.
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China to likely support development of LNG-fuelled ships
Introducing policies to support development of LNG bunkering in the second half of 2013, says report.
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UK firm orders second fuel-saving workboat
The vessel features an 'impressive measured fuel consumption of 100 litres per hour at 20 knots', says MD.
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Potential bunker pollution threat from sea bed
Shipwrecks identified as source of pollution.
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NOAA identifies 'worst case' bunker pollution threats from wrecks
From information complied with the RUST database that includes data on 20,000 shipwrecks.
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'Increasing interest' in LNG as bunker fuel
Interest seen across containership, LNG tanker, and cruise markets.
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BV: Increasing interest for adoption of LNG as bunkers
Interest seen across containership, LNG tanker, and cruise markets.
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Scotland: Make protection of marine environment a priority
Preserving diverse environment should come ahead of economics.
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Expect more slow steaming, says analyst
Market fundamentals mean growth of practice inevitable.
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BV in line with ship industry trends for 2012-2013
Ship efficiency and safety standards for LNG bunkering form part of its focus.
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BV highlights ship industry trends for 2012-2013
Notes of several projects to improve ship efficiency, and safety standards for LNG bunkering.
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BIMCO updates EEDI calculator
Includes requirements for new ro/ro cargo and passenger ships, and change in calculations for general cargo ships.
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Analysis: Airline emissions deal may not come before EU deadline.
Hope is fading for a global deal to regulate the airline industry's greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a fall deadline, even though failure could push the industry back to the brink of a trade war over the European Union's emissions trading system.
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New York goes on Scandi LNG fact finder
Handling LNG-fuelled ferry operations safety prime reason for trip.
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New York delegates learning about LNG-fuelled vessels
To safely handle LNG-fuelled ferry operations in the future.
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A black mound of Canadian oil waste is rising over Detroit.
Detroit’s ever-growing black mountain is the unloved, unwanted and long overlooked byproduct of Canada’s oil sands boom. And no one knows quite what to do about it, except Koch Carbon, which owns it.
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Pete McMartin: British Columbia exporting the future for today’s gain.
In the last eight years, corporate donors — most notably, a group of mining, gas and oil companies — have inundated the provincial Liberals with $46 million in donations. That buys a lot of attention.
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