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The International Association of Ports and Harbors decided and announced that the World Ports Climate Initiative will be expanded to extend its scope from climate action to a full range of sustainability port development challenges the industry is facing. 

A Damen Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger 650 has successfully completed sea trials in Shanghai and is now underway to new owner, Gippsland Ports in Australia, on her own keel, Damen announced. The TSHD, named Tommy Norton, is the company's first dredger built for Australia.

On 17 July, the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project’s floating production, storage and offloading facility "Ichthys Venturer" sailed away from its construction site in Okpo, South Korea en route to Australia, after completion of commissioning and preparation work.

The Maritime Research Institute of Netherlands announced that it tested an innovative concept for a floating mega island, to ensure working space at sea. The island comprises 87 large floating triangles that are flexibility connected to one another and, together, they form a flexible floating island.

Nine people are confirmed dead and 28 are still missing, after a tour boat sank in Colombia's Penol-Guatape reservoir, on Sunday, 25 June. The multi-decked vessel was carrying about 170 people, at the time of the incident.

This week, Evergreen Line’s Ever Sigma container ship discharged the 9 millionth TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) to pass through the Port of Los Angeles in the span of 12 months, setting a new annual record for the most container throughput of any port in the western hemisphere.

Although the Antarctic is considered as a pristine wilderness compared to other regions, new findings by scientists from the University of Hull and the British Antarctic Survey have revealed that recorded levels of microplastics accumulated in the region are five times higher than expected.

Singapore LNG Corporation successfully completed its first small scale reload, at its Terminal on Jurong Island, filling the fuel tanks of Cardissa, a 6,500 cubic-meter LNG bunker vessel owned by Shell. SLNG terminal is originally designed to accommodate LNG vessels from 60,000m3 to 265,000m3 in size.

Cepsa has started bunker supply activity in the Port of Gibraltar using mass flow meters for ships, a new precise measurement system that guarantees the quantity of product supplied. In addition to the high levels of fuel supply precision, the system reduces refueling operation times by up to 3 hours and is totally transparent, as it is monitored continuously and simultaneously.

Boeing and Huntington Ingalls Industries have joined forces for the design and production of Unmanned Undersea Vehicles in support of the U.S. Navy’s Extra Large UUV program.