Seguridad marítima
Call for IMO to Ensure Fuel Transparency
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- Published on Sunday, 12 October 2014 09:37
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Transport & Environment, Seas at Risk and Carbon War Room are urging the IMO not to withhold data on ship efficiency and fuel consumption. The call for action follows moves by some industry groups to undermine initiatives at the IMO and EU level that would make efficiency performance publicly available and require ships to report and publicize their energy efficiency data.
In submissions to the IMO’s environment committee (MEPC), Transport & Environment (T&E) and Seas at Risk (SAR) – both members of the Clean Shipping Coalition – have drawn on research by the University of Gothenburg which states that transparency is essential if the industry is to reduce its GHG emissions and develop a sustainable low-carbon future. The study prepared by Jessica
Scrubber Deliveries on the Rise Despite Deadline
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- Published on Sunday, 12 October 2014 09:25
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Wärtsilä is delivering several scrubbers a month in the lead up to the ECA regulations entering into force in Europe in 2015. It is now too late to start and finish an installation project by the end of the year, but this delivery rate is more likely to pick up than to abate.
“The main argument for scrubbers is that you get a cost saving compared to switching to gas oil inside ECAs, and we initially thought that the financial argument would be the only driver,” says Sigurd Jenssen, director, EGC at Wärtsilä Environmental Solutions. Jenssen had underestimated the importance some shipowners place on their environmental reputation. Wilhelmsen, for example, is installing scrubbers on ROROs that work worldwide and therefore
Los límites de Samuel Plimsoll
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- Published on Monday, 29 September 2014 08:53
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Introducción
Cuando Plimsoll consigue ver convertida en norma su propuesta para limitar la carga de los buques del Reino Unido, hacía muchas décadas que un gran número capitanes civiles marcaban el costado de sus respectivos barcos tratando de tener un límite y una referencia para evitar la sobrecarga del barco.
En el año 1835, el Lloyd´s Register fijó tres pulgadas de francobordo por cada pie de puntal de bodega. En 1875 Samuel Plimsoll, miembro del parlamento, promovió la legislación necesaria para fijar una marca en los costados del buque, con el fin de limitar el calado hasta el cual podría cargar. Esta marca es conocida como Disco Plimsoll, aunque su denominación oficial es la de marca de francobordo.
Samuel Plimsoll, “el amigo de los marinos”
Muy bueno, lo tuyo
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- Published on Monday, 06 October 2014 06:53
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antón luaces 05.10.2014 | 00:28
Ul catedrático de Derecho Internacional Privado de la Universidad del País Vasco, Juan José Álvarez Rubio, fue contundente en su intervención en el seminario organizado por la Fundación Universidade da Coruña sobre seguridad marítima: "Jurídicamente hablando, de producirse hoy un caso como el del Prestige, estaríamos en las mismas circunstancias".
Así de simple. Así de claro. Así de rotundo.
Pero es que no se trata de una cuestión que atañe exclusivamente al aspecto jurídico del asunto: en este interesante seminario desarrollado en el salón de actos del castillo de Santa Cruz y con un envidiable tiempo de verano que hermoseaba todavía más la ría de A Coruña, se volvió a hablar, aunque un tanto sotto voce, de
US needs LNG bunkering guidelines, Marad study finds
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- Published on Sunday, 14 September 2014 07:09
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Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor | Sep 08, 2014 12:26PM EDT
Interest in using liquefied natural gas as vessel fuel is highlighting the need for regulatory policies and operational and safety standards, according to a new Maritime Administration study on LNG bunkering.
The U.S. is hardly the only country trying to a handle on using LNG as a maritime fuel. Vessel owners and operators worldwide are evaluating LNG fuel as an economical way to meet increasingly stringent air-quality standards imposed by the International Maritime Organization and, in some cases, regional regulators.
IMO rules next year will require marine fuel with a maximum 0.1 percent sulfur content, compared with 1 percent now, in emission control areas in the North and Baltic seas, English Channel and within 200