Mark your calendar for the European Shipping Summit 2023, taking place on the 19-20 September 2023 at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels. We are excited to host a two-day event that includes engaging industry sessions, networking opportunities, and high-level dialogues featuring European and international policymakers, regulators, and industry stakeholders. More: European Shipping […]
By Marek Grzybowski, BSSC Baltic Maritime Journalist Club In 2024, the bill for EU ETS regulations will cost maritime transport operators with ships over 500,000. GT around EUR 3 billion. By 2026, maritime transport operators will have to spend EUR 8.4 billion on the EU fee for CO2 emission allowances, informs the Trade Winds portal […]
LNG Terminal Świnoujście By Marek Grzybowski, BSSC Baltic Journalist Club The FSRU fleet will double by 2025, analysts at the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies predicted about 10 years ago. After Russia’s attack on Ukraine, it is clear that many European countries are looking for ways to increase the transshipment capacity of liquefied gas. In […]
Athens Institute for Education and Research Newsletter No. 22, June 2023 During the four weeks of June, more than 350 researchers participated in ATINER’s academic meetings ATINER organized two roundtable discussions: on Demographics and Politics (www.atiner.gr/events/12June2023.pdf) on Monday 12 June, and The Future of Sciences and Engineering Education (www.atiner.gr/events/19June2023.pdf) on Monday 19 June […]
By Marek Grzybowski Sud Renovables, a Spanish subsidiary of the Soltech Group, has installed the company’s first floating solar unit, which is also the first of its kind in Catalonia, Spain. The Scottish company Nova Innovation, which has so far focused on tidal energy, is expanding its offer with the technology of floating solar […]
LNG Terminal Świnoujście By Marek Grzybowski Alternative fuel vessels have accounted for around 60% of new orders since early 2022 in GT, driven mainly by bi-fuel LNG and increasingly methanol orders, and now account for 5% of fleet GT and 47% of orders according to Clarksons Research. Liquefied gas tankers make up a large proportion […]
By Marek Grzybowski Revenues for the entire year 2023 are expected to range from EUR 14 billion to EUR 15.5 billion, including service revenues to increase by at least 5%, according to Vestas’ latest announcement. In 2022, the Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas recorded losses of EUR 1,572 million, while it ended 2021 with a […]
By Marek Grzybowski India’s coal imports rose to 162 t in the year. Coking coal imports increased to 54 tonnes, Indian Express reports. Total global seaborne coal loads in China increased year-on-year by 5.8% to 1,204.8 million tonnes, while in 2021, 1,138.3 million tonnes were imported by sea, Banchero Costa reports. Coal imports to China […]
By Marek Grzybowski The EU Wind Assisted Ship Propulsion (WASP) Project has been a success. The WASP (Wind Powered Ship) project was funded with EUR 5.4 million from the Interreg North Sea Europe program under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The pictures show the Wind Assisted Ship Propulsion technology, in this case, the […]
Przemysław Sztandera: “Companies will look at the stability of Poland” The geopolitical situation in the world, especially the past coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing war in Ukraine, make us ask questions about the resilience of the national economy to external threats. This was the problem that experts faced during the 6th Vision of Development Forum […]