OPENING
News from OCIMF - a new chair, a review of tanker shore power developments, plans for cybersecurity in TMSA and SIRE, reviewing Track Guidance Assistant, promoting “allyship"
Collision between a tanker and bulk carrier in west India - because no-one does anything in time
SOKANA's more efficient commercial model for tankers - integrating cargo management, technical management and vessel ownership
Clarksons analyses the CO2 carrier market situation - will the UK have the carrier vessels it needs by 2030?
SHIP MANAGEMENT
Safety at Ardmore Shipping - marine manager Abhijit Ghosh explained the company’s tool for rating crewmembers on safety performance, its safety champion program, and its perspective on SIRE 2.0
Norwegian Shipowners’ Association and decarboinsation - plans to only order zero emission technology
vessels from 2030. Staff from the association, and perspectives from Odfjell and Klaveness
DECARBONISATION
Furetank’s sustainability report - progress with high performance vessels, overall decarbonisation, training, and employee wellbeing
ISWANN Survey on crew stress from decarbonisation - also extra work, fatigue and fear of legal trouble
How to cut fuel 50% through operational methods - with clever use of wind power and air lubrication, according to Kongsberg / Deltamarin modelling
The MAMII initiative on understanding methane emissions in maritime - Carnival and MSC shared perspectives
HULL PERFORMANCE
AkzoNobel testing a VLCC coating for speed loss - achieved a speed loss of 1.4 per cent over 60 months, which matched predictions
TANK CLEANING
Developments with tank cleaning - a cause of unnecessary enclosed space risks? combination carriers – resistance to change in procedures – new contracts for APC MarineLINE
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TANKER TECHNOLOGY
Real-Time Kinematic ultra-precise navigation - Trelleborg explained how it can help tankers
First urea delivery to tanker by barge - made by Marine Care in Houston
MarineShaft replacing liner for propeller shaft in 11 days - for a 155m long chemical tanker built in 2009
BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT
Managing alarms on BWMS - if they are not configured carefully, crew will get too many alarms and will have
trouble working out what the alarms are for. Ecochlor explains
Bawat's ballast water as a service - treating ballast water at port through mobile units using pasteurisation
Ecoharbor's mobile / onshore ballast water treatment - a range of mobile and onshore offerings, including for ships whose systems are not operational, and for dry dock