South Korean wave energy developer Ingine has received support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to advance its planned wave power plant in Vietnam.
Swedish-Israeli company Eco Wave Power (EWP) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Pecém Complex for the implementation of its wave power plant in the facilities of Pecém Port in the northeastern Brazil.
Swedish wave energy company Seabased has unveiled plans to build a 10MW wave power park at Audierne Bay, located in the French region of Brittany.
Scrapping of the Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) tanker J. NAT in Gadani, Pakistan, has been suspended by local authorities following intoxication and burning of workers, NGO Shipbreaking informed. The tanker hit the shipbreaking shores of Gadani recently, after going several months off the ra
A new partnership between academia and business entities has been established in East Asia under the joint goal of introducing and developing marine energy industry in Taiwan.
IMO’s working group has agreed on a set of draft guidelines to support mandatory measures approved by the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) to cut the carbon footprint of all ships.
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has opened a consultation on a decommissioning programme for Mocean Energy’s half-scale wave energy prototype Blue X.
The Dutch Energy from Water Association (EWA), an industry group promoting renewable energy generation from water in the Netherlands, has announced the appointment of a new board.
The Biden administration has submitted to Congress the budget for the fiscal year 2022, which includes $253.4 million to support the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE).
Australian authorities have issued a record ban to Aswan Shipping, the owners of Panama-flagged bulk carrier MV Maryam, preventing the vessel from entering any Australian port for three years. The ban comes in response to major safety and maintenance issues, along with crew welfare abuses, according
There needs to be a greater sense of urgency among global governments in relation to the adoption of policies that would accelerate decarbonization in the shipping sector, the head of the world’s largest container shipping company believes. “Business is ahead of governments on this agenda,” Soren Sk
The shipping industry must reach zero emissions by 2050, and to get there zero-emission ships must become the dominant and competitive choice by 2030, an op-ed signed by big industry names insists. This means that the International Maritime Organization (IMO) would need to step up and revise its dec
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has launched a consultation on a decommissioning programme for AWS Ocean Energy’s Archimedes Waveswing device that will be tested in the waters off Orkney in summer 2021.
Alfa Laval, a Sweden-based ballast water treatment system (BWTS) manufacturer, has received a Type Approval Design Certificate from classification society DNV for PureBallast 3 Ex deckhouse solutions.
