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Could Nations Agree on a Global Plastics Treaty This Year?
Could Nations Agree on a Global Plastics Treaty This Year? [By Emma Bryce] For the past two years, nations have been trying to craft a legally binding global treaty that will tackle plastic pollution. The fast-tracked negotiation process is due to end with this month’s meeting, which is taking place in Busan, South Korea, from…
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Terminal Trouble: Is the EU Building Too Many Regasification Terminals?
Terminal Trouble: Is the EU Building Too Many Regasification Terminals? When was the last time you made a great decision in the middle of a panic? In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Sanctions passed against Russia by European governments included a ban on Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports. Russian pipeline gas, which had…
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Trump’s Election Gives Hope to Opponents of Chagos Islands Deal
Trump’s Election Gives Hope to Opponents of Chagos Islands Deal In the wake of President Trump’s decisive re-election, a political campaign is gathering steam on both sides of the Atlantic to pressure the United Kingdom’s Labour government into abandoning its recent agreement to hand sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Diego Garcia is one of 60…
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Huntington Ingalls Names New President for Newport News Shipbuilding
Huntington Ingalls Names New President for Newport News Shipbuilding Huntington Ingalls Industries has announced the retirement of longtime Newport News Shipbuilding president Jennifer Boykin, who has run the nation’s premier nuclear-vessel shipyard since 2017. She will be replaced by Kari Wilkinson, the longtime head of HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division, effective January 1. “I have…
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Video: Salvors Raise Wreck of Burned Superyacht off Sardinia
Video: Salvors Raise Wreck of Burned Superyacht off Sardinia The sunken superyacht Atina has been raised from the bottom off Sardinia and will be removed for scrapping, according to Italy’s coast guard. On August 10, the 154-foot superyacht Atina caught fire off the coast of Olbia, a luxury destination on the northeastern shores of…
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The shipping consequences of Mr Trump
The shipping consequences of Mr Trump Splash’s lead columnist has been forced out of silence by the results in America. I have on my wrist a wristwatch made in the year of my birth -1952. It was made in two stages – the movement was made in Le Locle, in Switzerland, by the firm of…
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Stainless Tankers readies double sale
Stainless Tankers readies double sale Stainless Tankers of Norway has moved to offload two of its nine vessels. The Oslo-listed outfit backed by UK-based Tufton Investment Management is selling the 2005-built J19 stainless steel units Monax and Marmotas – the oldest in its fleet. Both ships, currently estimated by VesselsValue at about $33.7m in total,…
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Noble bags UK semisub extension from Shell
Noble bags UK semisub extension from Shell Noble Corporation has secured a two-well extension from UK supermajor Shell for the semisub Ocean Endeavor in the UK North Sea. The contract at an undisclosed dayrate will keep the unit fixed until June 2025 or approximately 130 days, and includes options for two more wells. The 1976-built…
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Seaway 7 wins cabling work on East Anglia Two offshore wind farm
Seaway 7 wins cabling work on East Anglia Two offshore wind farm Seaway 7, the renewables unit of Oslo-listed Subsea 7, has won a contract from ScottishPower Renewables for the transport and installation of the inter-array cables of the East Anglia Two offshore wind project. ScottishPower Renewables’ £4bn ($5.16bn) East Anglia Two offshore wind farm…
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Höegh Evi moves to develop French hydrogen import terminal
Höegh Evi moves to develop French hydrogen import terminal Norway’s Höegh Evi, formerly known as Höegh LNG, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the port of Port-La Nouvelle to develop a floating hydrogen import terminal targeting up to 210,000 tonnes of volumes annually from producers in the Middle East, North Africa and the Americas…