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Operation to Empty Decaying Oil Tanker Set to Begin in Yemen, UN Says

Voa News 31 May 2023
Operations to salvage 1.1 million barrels of oil from a decaying tanker moored off Yemen's coast will soon begin after a technical support ship arrived on site on Tuesday, the United Nations said ... The Ndeavor tanker, with a technical team from Boskalis/SMIT, is in place at ...
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UN vessel arrives at moored oil tanker off Yemeni coast for rescue preparation

Xinhua 30 May 2023
SANAA, May 30 (Xinhua) -- A United Nations (UN) ship arrived on Tuesday at the site of the floating storage and offloading (FSO) Safer vessel, a decaying super oil tanker, off the coast of Ras Issa, Hodeidah in western Yemen ... The statement said the ship would start working soon to make the super oil tanker safer before the extraction process begins.
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Spain fines Elephant owner over ship-to-ship secrecy

Tradewinds 30 May 2023
The Spanish government has fined the owners of a Vietnamese tanker €120,000 ...
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Operation to empty Yemen Safer oil tanker set to begin, UN says

Khaleejtimes 30 May 2023
Operations to salvage 1.1 million barrels of oil from a decaying tanker moored off Yemen's coast will soon begin after a technical support ship arrived on site on Tuesday, the United Nations said ... The Ndeavor tanker, with a technical team from Boskalis/SMIT, is ...
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Nigeria Releases “Oil Theft” VLCC Heroic Idun After Plea Bargain

The Maritime Executive 30 May 2023
On August 8, the tanker arrived as scheduled to take on cargo from the CNOOC-operated Akpo offshore FPSO ... While it released the Heroic Idun, the Navy reiterated its claim (which has been widely dismissed by the shipping industry and its representative bodies) that the tanker and its 26 foreign crew entered Nigeria’s waters unlawfully.
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Interview: Katharina Stanzel, Managing Director, Intertanko

The Maritime Executive 30 May 2023
It was a job with ITOPF, the then-International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation, an organization that employs scientists to assist on site during shipping-related pollution incidents, to try and minimize the damage ... Who are the members, and what percentage of the world’s tanker fleet do they represent?.
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Growing ‘shadow’ tanker fleet poses safety and environment danger: report

Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide 30 May 2023
The growth of the shadow tanker fleet, estimated at almost 600 vessels, ...
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Study: Rotor Sails and Routing Can Cut Emissions By One Quarter

The Maritime Executive 30 May 2023
In the first phase of the simulation project, the partners examined six routes, including a North Atlantic passage between New York and Amsterdam, using a Sumitomo wind-assisted tanker design as the ship model. They drew on Norsepower's real-world data, as well as NAPA's digital-twin ship performance model.
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Wind propulsion in shipping: Projects that make headlines

SAFETY4SEA 30 May 2023
Until the first quarter of 2023, there were 24 large ships installed with wind assist systems ... Wind propulsion as a decarbonization solution for shipping ... Meanwhile, IWSA predicts that the figure could be even higher, considering that these projections only focus on three main ship types (container ships, bulk carriers and tankers).
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Local veteran honors brothers with wall of remembrance

Enid News & Eagle 30 May 2023
Wright described his experiences working on the ship, from his duties to transporting important information. He specifically was on an oil tanker ... Wright said they furnished oil to ships, aircraft carriers and bombers at sea ... “We’d go to the different countries and there we would refuel the ship.”.
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Thousands evacuated as Philippines warns of flooding, landslides from approaching Typhoon Mawar

Citizen Tribune 30 May 2023
Batanes, a chain of islands with about 19,000 people, has been experiencing nightly power outages in recent days because a tanker ship carrying fuel for its power generators had taken shelter from the approaching typhoon.
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Drought-struck Barcelona quenches thirst with costly desalination

Citizen Tribune 30 May 2023
Water is pumped from two kilometers (1.2 miles) into the Mediterranean Sea to where the Llobregat desalination plant sits on an isolated stretch of beach ... But authorities have not had to take drastic action like during the 2006-2008 drought when tanker vessels shipped in drinking water ... “As long as the drought continues the plant will keep running.

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