Tag: Canada

Local emergency responders in Iqaluit, Nunavut, are diligently monitoring and coordinating their response to a recent incident involving shipping containers that fell off a barge on October 27th. 

Marine traffic has resumed on the St. Lawrence Seaway in Ontario, Canada, after the successful re-floating of the grounded cement carrier NACC Argonaut.

DNV's latest report predicts that the US and Canada will spend $12 trillion on grid and renewable energy between now and 2050.

In a recent incident, the cement carrier Nacc Argonaut grounded in the St. Lawrence River in Ontario, Canada.

Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (K Line) were respectively fined $1.5 million and $460,000 by the Ontario Superior Court for their role in an international conspiracy that reduced competition for the shipment of vehicles to Canada.

According to the Canadian offshore petroleum regulator, the Hibernia Management and Development Company (HMDC), is pleading guilty to an oil spill from a platform off St. John’s Newfoundland, which occurred in July 2019.

According to Canadian Coast Guard, on 26th July, crew members of a cargo vessel reported the bunker oil spill in Nanaimo Harbour. 

HaiSea Marine, majority owned by Haisla Nation in partnership with Seaspan ULC, celebrated the arrival of the world’s first fully electric tugboat as it sailed under the Lions Gate Bridge for the first time.

Canada has prohibited cruise ships from dumping sewage and unclean water close to shore and has threatened to punish violators up to $190,000.

A new report by Arup, Lloyd's Register (LR) Maritime Decarbonization Hub, Oceans North and Vancouver Maritime Centre for Climate, explores the  benefits Canada might have from investing in infrastructure that would allow the use of low and zero emissions shipping fuels.