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The Marine Professional is the IMarEST’s membership magazine and is available in print and online.
With a strong news analysis focus, each issue looks at the trends emerging within the marine sector and aims to enhance understanding of the complex technical intersections between the maritime, offshore and science agendas.
Rolls-Royce has launched a lithium-ion based energy storage system for use on commercial ships. The company has been delivering energy storage systems to customers since 2010, though the units themselves were previously supplied by a third party. Now Rolls-Royce offers…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 17 August 2018
Early this month, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) and subsea services company Swire Seabed commenced a project to collect data on sulphide mineral deposits in the Norwegian Sea. The campaign is part of an NPD programme that aims to locate…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 17 August 2018
Norwegian shipyard Vard has been selected to build Yara Birkeland, the world’s first autonomous and electric-driven container vessel. The ship was commissioned and designed for the purpose of streamlining logistics and reducing pollution at chemical company Yara’s fertilizer plant in…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Thursday, 16 August 2018
As marine mammals evolved, they lost the ability to make a protein that defends their land-dwelling counterparts from the neurotoxic effects of popular pesticides known as organophosphates. The implications of this finding, uncovered by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 10 August 2018
The Port of Antwerp has introduced an autonomous sounding boat, known as the Echodrone, to assist with depth measurements that guarantee safe passage for commercial ships. One of the port authority’s responsibilities is inspection and maintenance of onsite maritime infrastructure,…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 10 August 2018
Maersk and IBM have launched the pilot of their jointly-developed blockchain platform TradeLens, which is designed to increase transparency and reduce the administrative burden in global container shipping. More than 94 organizations – including port operators in Rotterdam and Singapore,…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 10 August 2018
Wilhelmsen Ships Service has been selected to help develop Singapore’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) regulatory framework, and will receive dedicated government funding for its shore-to-ship drone delivery project. In June, the company announced that it is working with Airbus on…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 10 August 2018
Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd – the world’s fifth-largest container carrier in terms of vessel capacity – has declared low sulphur fuel to be the “simplest” solution for complying with the 2020 sulphur cap. In a newly-published note on its website, the company states…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 03 August 2018
Industrial fishing fleets have doubled the distance they travel to fishing grounds since 1950, but catch just one third of what they did 65 years ago per kilometre travelled, according to a new study. Scientists from the University of British…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 03 August 2018
Since 2010, the Port of Amsterdam has offered discounts on port dues to vessels listed in the Environmental Ship Index (ESI) that have attained a rating of 20 points or higher. As of 1 August, the port has doubled this…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Thursday, 02 August 2018
Only around 13 per cent of the world’s oceans can still be classified as wilderness, according to a new study published in the journal Current Biology. The wilderness areas that do remain are unevenly distributed across the Arctic, Antarctic and…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Thursday, 02 August 2018
Virgin Voyages – a joint venture between Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and private equity firm Bain Capital – has assigned Wärtsilä the responsibility of maintaining its three cruise vessels. The 10-year optimized maintenance agreement will see the Finnish technology group…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 27 July 2018
Maritime Blockchain Labs (MBL), a subsidiary of blockchain technology and governance group Blockchain Labs for Open Collaboration (BLOC), has set up a consortium to address traceability in the marine fuel supply chain. MBL identified the bunker industry – and its…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 27 July 2018
Chinese shipping giant Cosco was hit by a cyber attack that affected its operations in the Americas on Tuesday, 24 July. According to a statement from the firm, local email and telephone networks were impacted and connections to further regions…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Thursday, 26 July 2018
The first large-scale study of transshipment events suggests that many exchanges of goods at sea occur beyond the jurisdiction of any one nation. In the absence of consistent regulation, illegally-caught fish are entering supply chains and other criminal activities, such…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Wednesday, 25 July 2018
New research has shown that fish are losing their sense of smell as rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere make the oceans more acidic. The world’s oceans have absorbed 525 billion tons of CO2 since the beginning…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Wednesday, 25 July 2018
Russian natural gas producer Novatek has shipped its first cargoes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its $27bn Yamal LNG project in Siberia to China via the Northern Sea Route. The Yamal plant – which is being jointly developed by…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 20 July 2018
France’s CMA CGM – the world’s third-largest container shipping company – has ordered 17 Bio-Sea ballast water treatment systems (BWTS) from Bio-UV Group. Nine LNG-fuelled 22,000 TEU leviathans currently under construction at China’s CSTC Shipyard will be fitted with two…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 20 July 2018
Shipping losses have declined by 38 per cent over the last decade, according to insurer Allianz’s Safety & Shipping Review 2018, which analyzes reported vessel losses over 100 gross tonnes. There were 94 total losses reported around the shipping world…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 20 July 2018
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