Tag: MARIN

The Merchant Vessel MSC SHRISTI, a container ship traveling from Boston to the Dominican Republic, notified Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre via email on March 3rd that, while passing at approximately 350 nautical miles east of Bermuda, the ship had lost overboard a total of 46 empty shipping containers at three different times due to bad weather.

Dutch maritime research institute MARIN has initiated the project Optiwise, an EU funded research and innovation project aiming to improve and demonstrate energy savings using wind propulsion and hydrodynamic improvements in propulsion.