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A civil engineer explains why ships taking out bridges is rare, and describes how bridge builders protect the structures from ship collisions.
Growing ship numbers and reductions in the industry’s total emissions add up to big emission cuts per ship – as much as 60% by 2030 and 91% by 2040. The days of fossil-fuelled ships are now numbered.
Rising sea levels threaten the low-lying island nation with the world’s third-largest shipping register. That’s why it’s leading efforts to cut shipping emissions in an equitable way.
Just like how tax evasion brought down Al Capone, denying Russian ships protection and indemnity insurance could deliver a crushing economic blow to Vladimir Putin.
Approximately 8,000 merchant vessels travel the St. Lawrence each year. Its ports have become the catalysts that link trade, development and industrial innovation.
Shipping requires vast amounts of fuel, and the questions of which country is responsible for emissions makes reaching agreements a mammoth and glacial task.
The world needs robust supply chains that are founded on sustainability, collaboration, trust, transparency, visibility and diversification of supply.
Thousands of shipping containers are lost at sea each year, dispersing Lego, inkjet cartridges and rubber ducks across the world’s beaches.
Direct implications for maritime security are unlikely. But there will be ripple effects in the shipping industry and in many commercial sectors.
In early 2020, stranded cruise ships became a stark symbol of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Now it’s seafarers stranded on cargo ships.
Dead whales usually sink, so most evidence of ‘ship strikes’ quickly disappears beneath the waves.
We know how to stop solid minerals converting to a liquid state mid voyage – so why does it still happen?
Iran has threatened to shut down this narrow seaway. Here’s why that could be a big deal.
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Senior Lecturer in Culture & Climate, The University of Melbourne
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Maritime Logistics Expert, Centre for Supply Chain and Logistics (CSCL), Deakin University
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PhD (Maritime Security), University of Greenwich
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Lecturer in Ecology, Scotland's Rural College
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Associate Professor in International Development Studies, Dalhousie University
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Professor of Practice & Director, Fletcher Maritime Studies Program, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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