Other partners in the agreement are Italian Classification Society RINA and China Classification Society; focus will be on hydrogen and ammonia as marine fuel.
Japan Marine United Corporation and Nippon Kaiji Kyokai have entered a R&D agreement for the commercialisation of an ammonia-fuelled ammonia gas carrier.
Under this scale-up initiative, EcoLabs and its partners will support each firm with SGD 100,000, in-kind contribution, investments and co-funding of projects.
MPA has observed negligence of some common safety measures ‘have resulted in a few injuries and/or loss of lives, which could have been prevented’.
The 13,000 dwt dual-fuel container ship is being built by Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding Co and will be classed by French company Bureau Veritas.
Vessels can receive LNG-bunkers simultaneously while loading or discharging, this eliminates shifting time and reduces expenses for LNG-powered vessels for their bunkering.
Approximately 460 mt of 1000mt of leaked fuel is estimated to have been manually recovered and 1,600 mt of VLSFO and about 200 mt of DO...
IMO and the United Nations Environment Programme for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) have jointly deployed an oil spill response expert, it said.
The unnamed 3,850 dwt and 520 dwt tankers were discovered floating suspiciously close together on Friday, 8.9 nautical miles off Tanjung Penawar, Kota Tinggi.
The team were out on patrol on Friday (7 August) when they discovered vessel TG 9397TS around 8.30 at night, 28 nautical miles from Nam Con...
