UNCTAD’s Review of Maritime Transport 2023 calls for a “just and equitable transition” to a decarbonized shipping industry. The sector, whose greenhouse gas emissions have risen 20% over the last decade, operates an ageing fleet that runs almost exclusively on fossil fuels. As global leaders prepare for the next UN …
Nearly 100 containers that fell into the waters following the collision between two merchant vessels off the Mumbai coast are still missing and two of them are carrying hazardous chemicals, a senior Mumbai Port Trust official said today."The salvage operation is underway. About 100 out of the total 250 containers …
Mumbai: Movement of goods began along the navigational channel in the Mumbai harbour, which opened partially on Thursday after a five-day shutdown, Union Shipping Minister G. K. Vasan told a press conference here.
The collision of two large ships off the Mumbai coast and the resulting oil spill has come as a test of India's preparedness to handle shipping disasters. Any significant shipping accident has a serious environmental fallout, because oil or other hazardous cargo is discharged into the sea. As trade and …
The Coast Guard today plugged the two ruptured tanks of the MSC Chitra which were spilling oil into the sea off the Mumbai coast since the ship collided with another vessel, MV Khalijia III, on Saturday morning.However, with an estimated 400 tonnes of oil already having leaked into the water …
Rahi GaikwadMumbai: While the sea around Mumbai faces a potential environment disaster after an oil spill in the Arabian Sea, the three-day ordeal of containing it came to an end on Monday evening. While the Coast Guard continued chemical spraying to contain the oil slick, the tilting cargo ship MSC …
New Delhi: The government on Monday said legal action has been initiated against owners of the two cargo ships which collided off the Mumbai coast, resulting in oil spill endangering marine life and environment. During zero hour, environment minister Jairam Ramesh told the Rajya Sabha,
A team of experts from Singapore arrives to assist in the operations; port closed for shipping activity during the nightMumbai: The oil spill is under control but salvage operations off the Mumbai coast are expected to last a month, Maharashtra Environment Minister Suresh Shetty told journalists here on Monday.A team …
Environment minister Jairam Ramesh and the Director General of Shipping have initiated probes into the oil spill that took place when two Panamanian merchant ships collided off the Mumbai coast resulting in an oil spill.With more than 200 litres of hydraulic oil spilled into the sea after the collision there …
MUMBAI: The Coast Guard on Sunday sounded an alert over the oil spill off the Mumbai coast as the slick covered a large area, up to five nautical miles, from the spot where two ships collided on Saturday morning.The spillage from MSC Chitra, after it collided with MV Khalijia-III, is …
The navy and the Coast Guard carried out anti-pollution operations for the third consecutive day today to check and neutralise the oil spill caused due to a collision between two cargo ships off the Mumbai coast.A high-level meeting, to be attended by the officials of the Maharashtra government Environment Department, …
This new global study by Carbon Disclosure Project based on survey of 291 largest transport companies which include road, rail, sea and air transport reveals that majority of transport firms are not adapting to the risks and opportunities presented by climate change. Found that only 36 per cent of transport …
This report presents research on international shipping emissions and climate change undertaken at The University of Manchester by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI). The research considers the role that the shipping sector could play in mitigating total global emissions, with a particular …
American capitalism often arouses extreme emotions. It’s loathed as an arrogant system standing in the way of an equitable world order. It’s also lauded as an agent of liberalism and democracy. Capitalists who had very little idea about big business laid the foundations of this great economy; they engaged in …
THE smallest profits in the commodity shipping market in 18 months may be ending as a rebound in steel and iron-ore prices signal improving Chinese demand that will ease the transport glut. Chinese steel prices rose 4.7% last week, the most in 11 months. Derivatives for fourth-quarter iron-ore prices jumped …
Bhavnagar: Following the finding of a high amount of hazardous industrial waste that was being dumped in a creek near Sisodiya Yard in Alang, Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) held an emergency meeting with Alang Ship Breakers
Bhavnagar: Working conditions at Alang ship-breaking yard were proved hazardous yet again on Sunday when a worker died of suffocation while dismantling a ship anchored at Sisodiya Ship Breaking Yard at Alang on Sunday. The incident also left one labourer seriously injured. According to police, the incident occurred at plot …
Gandhinagar: Mitsubishi Corporation, Nippon Steel and Japanese Marine Science Inc have come forward to invest in Alang-Sosiya shipbreaking yard for a futuristic hazard-free eco-friendly ship recycling facility. While a concrete proposal by the three Japanese companies will be made public during Vibrant Gujarat business summit in January 2011, Mitsubishi Corporation …
