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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.
Damen Shipyards has signed a contract with Estonia’s Eesti Gaas for the construction of a short-sea LNG bunker vessel that will operate in the Baltic Sea. Scheduled for delivery in September 2020, the vessel is designed to accelerate the adoption…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 05 October 2018
Wärtsilä has been selected to provide a full scope of marine simulators for a new training facility at Solent University’s Warsash School of Maritime Science and Engineering in Southampton, UK. The simulator complex will provide decision support, analysis, and training…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 05 October 2018
This year’s Day of the Seafarer campaign held its first-ever photo competition – providing a fascinating insight into the daily life of a seafarer. The photo competition invited men and women working at sea to share photos of what a…
Written by
Dennis O'Neill
Friday, 05 October 2018
ExxonMobil has announced that all of its 2020 sulphur cap compliant fuels will be compatible with one other – thereby easing widespread industry fears about mechanical failures. The vast majority of the global fleet is expected to switch to using…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Thursday, 04 October 2018
Thirty-four maritime CEOs have signed a pledge to accelerate the decarbonization of the shipping industry at this week’s Global Maritime Forum in Hong Kong. The signatories have thrown their weight behind the idea that shifting to a low-carbon economy by…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Thursday, 04 October 2018
Dry docking services firm Newport Shipping has purchased 100 scrubbers from Chinese scrubber manufacturer Weihai Puyi Marine Environmental Technology Co (Puyier) so it can offer retrofits to ship owners ahead of the 2020 sulphur cap. The London-based company has the…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Thursday, 04 October 2018
Following the deadly fire aboard Maersk Honam earlier this year, Maersk has implemented new guidelines for the stowage of dangerous cargo. On Tuesday 6 March, the liner vessel Maersk Honam reported a serious fire in one of its cargo…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 28 September 2018
Two major global ports have been targeted by ransomware attackers in the space of one week, once again putting the shipping industry on high alert. On 20 September, the Port of Barcelona stated via Twitter that it had fallen victim…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 28 September 2018
CMA CGM has joined Maersk in announcing plans to use surcharges to offset the cost of bunkering compliant fuels once the 2020 sulphur cap is in force. Based on current conditions, the French container shipping firm has estimated that the…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 28 September 2018
The European Union already has enough approved ship recycling yards to meet scrapping demand for EU-flagged ships, according to a report from the NGOs Shipbreaking Platform and Transport & Environment (T&E). The European Commission maintains a global list of facilities…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Tuesday, 25 September 2018
The GoodShipping Program, a marine biofuels advocacy initiative, has achieved its first carbon-free ocean freight transport for its customers. Earlier this month, the 800-TEU container feeder Samskip Endeavour was bunkered with 22,000 litres of hydrotreated vegetable oil in Rotterdam. According…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 21 September 2018
The Methanol Institute, the trade association for the global methanol industry, has welcomed the completion of draft interim guidelines covering the safety of ships using methyl/ethyl alcohol as fuel by IMO’s sub-Committee on Carriage of Cargoes and Containers (CCC5). The…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 21 September 2018
Massive subsea walls could be put in place to slow the collapse of ice sheets and contain sea level rise, according to a report published in the European Geosciences Union journal The Cryosphere. The study’s authors investigated the efficacy of…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 21 September 2018
Maersk Line has revealed that it will begin levying a new Bunker Adjustment Factor (BAF) surcharge on its customers at the start of next year. The Danish shipping giant says the additional charge will allow it to recover increases in…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 21 September 2018
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has released a guidance document to ensure that the industry is ready to comply with IMO’s 2020 fuel sulphur cap. ICS believes that it will be far more difficult to implement the regulation than…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 21 September 2018
Ferry operator Stena Line has commenced a pilot study in which an AI model will be used to predict the most fuel-efficient way to run a vessel on a specific route. The model, created in collaboration with tech firm Hitachi,…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
Airbus has placed an order for an automated kite, manufactured by maritime technology startup Airseas, that will be used to tow one of its commercial ships, thereby reducing fuel costs and emissions. The aerospace giant owns a fleet of four…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
Rolls-Royce Power Systems has revealed it will launch an entirely new range of MTU hybrid ship propulsion systems in 2020. The systems will be made available in a variety of power ranges and will consist of MTU internal combustion engines,…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 07 September 2018
The world’s largest offshore wind farm – the 659MW Walney Extension project – officially opened on 6 September in the Irish Sea. Denmark’s Ørsted, formerly known as Danish Oil and Natural Gas, owns 50 per cent of the wind farm,…
Written by
Jennifer Johnson
Friday, 07 September 2018
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