Classification society DNV has taken the wraps off a new crude oil tanker concept. The Triality ship is fueled by LNG, has a hull shape that obviates the need for ballast water and very greatly reduces local air pollution. The concept vessel also recovers hundreds of tons of cargo vapors on each voyage and, says DNV, is "a major step towards the new ...
Environment
Classification society DNV has taken the wraps off a new crude oil tanker concept. The Triality ship is fueled by LNG, has a hull shape that obviates the need for ballast water and very greatly reduces local air pollution. The concept vessel also recovers hundreds of tons of cargo vapors on each voyage and, says DNV, is "a major step towards the new ...
Eight Very Large Crude Carriers are achieving Very Large Carbon Cuts. A detailed performance analysis of a National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (NSCSA) tanker confirms that the company has achieved substantial fuel savings--and thus CO2 emissions reductions--since applying Intersleek coatings technology on the hulls of eight VLCCs.
In 2006, NSCSA - whose vessels are ...
The Department of Justice, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the state of Rhode Island announced today that Bouchard Transportation Co. Inc. and its affiliates will pay more than $6 million to settle a portion of the federal and state natural resource damages claims for the April 2003 spill of up to 98,000 gallons of oil into Buzzards Bay. The settlement announced ...
Nuclear powered merchant ships could be sailing again sooner than many might suppose.
That's the view of Lloyd's Register CEO Richard Sadler. The classification society is a member of a newly formed research consortium formed to explore the marine applications for small modular reactors (SMRs).
"This a very exciting project," said Sadler. "We believe that ...
$2.1 million penalties in Gould case
A Louisiana ship-operating company has been sentenced on charges related to the illegal discharge of oil into the oceans, from an NSF-chartered ship.
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