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Crowley Maritime and VT Halter Marine launched new Commitment Class ship "Taíno", one of the world’s first combination container/ Roll on-Roll off (ConRo) ship, powered by liquefied natural gas, on December 04.

The drug trafficking organization had carefully camouflaged 5,883 kilograms of cocaine, distributed in 5,299 pills, "perfectly hidden" inside containers with a shipment of bananas onboard the vessel 'Banak', coming from Colombia and heading to El Prat. The value of this quantity is estimated at 210 million euros.

The NSW Government and Port of Newcastle revealed the design of the new Newcastle Cruise Terminal. The purpose-built facility will cover approximately 3,000m2 and will include facilities for passenger drop-off and pick up, coach parking and vessel provisioning.

Pilots Captain Michael G. McGee and Captain Michael C. Phillips, from Houston were recognized for their role in averting a tragedy in September 2016, when the tanker they were piloting broke down in the Houston Ship Channel in the middle of the night and burst into flames, after colliding with mooring dolphins.

Debmarine Namibia, a 50/50 joint venture between the Government of the Republic of Namibia and De Beers Group, announced plans for the construction of the world’s largest custom-built diamond mining vessel.

Animals from six of the deepest places on Earth were found to contain man-made fibres and plastic in their stomachs, according to a new study by Newcastle University. The team tested samples of crustaceans found in the ultra-deep trenches that span the entire Pacific Ocean.

Statoil along with Masdar and Statkraft announced the official opening of the Dudgeon offshore wind farm in Great Yarmouth, UK, on November 22. All 67 turbines of the Dudgeon offshore wind farm are now delivering electricity to the UK grid.

Wood Mackenzie in a report tries to determine how peak oil demand will affect the refining sector and discusses both long- and short-term threats to refining activity by region.

IEA released its World Energy Outlook 2017, on 14 November, which includes a detailed focus on natural gas. It also addresses matters regarding the environmental case for gas and the issue of methane emissions from oil and gas operations.

An international shipping industry group gathered in Bonn to create a draft Action Plan that maps out how shipping can contribute to GHG reductions and decarbonization in order to comply with the high ambition climate change target of limiting global temperatures to 1.5oC.