Tag: Japan

Japanese MOL, Tohoku Electric Power, and Namura Shipbuilding have earned an Approval in Principle from UK-based Lloyd's Register for the design of an LNG-powered coal carrier. The joint acquisition aims to align with stricter standards on exhaust emissions from merchant vessels taking effect globally.

Russian natural gas producer Novatek, Japanese general trader Marubeni Corporation, and Japanese shipping company MOL signed a trilateral Memorandum of Understanding on the development an LNG complex in the Kamchatka Region.

The guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold was hit by a Japanese tug in the Sagami Bay, on Saturday, according to USNI news, citing US 7th Fleet. As informed, the forward-deployed destroyer was in the midst of a towing exercise when the tug lost power and “drifted into the ship.”

The second officer of the Russian Ro-Ro ship 'IMAN' was found dead, after Police in Toyama Shinko port, Honshu, Japan, was alerted on November 12 by the ship’s agent call.

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. announced the cooperation with Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., and Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology to apply Fujitsu's artificial intelligence technology for the estimation of vessel performance at sea.

The NYK-TDG Maritime Academy, which NYK operates in the Philippines, announced it has conducted an international short-term student-exchange program with national maritime schools in Japan during the months of August through October 2017.

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. announced that one of world's largest containerships, the MOL Truth, was delivered at the Saijo Shipyard of Imabari Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. on October 31.

According to marine biologists from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Williams College and other institutions nearly 300 coastal species were detected in Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast, after the tsunami in Japan in 2011, which crossed the ocean by attaching on debris.

UK MAIB announced that it has launched an investigation regarding the 2006-built containership 'Ever Smart', from which 42 containers fell overboard.

“Ports have to be ready for the coming energy transition. Vessels can’t compromise too much cargo space for fuel tank installation, so those ports who are in a key position for trunk line services, such as Yokohama and Singapore, should give priority to their development of LNG bunkering infrastructures,” Mr. Morooka of YKIP said.