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Clean Shipping Alliance: Wash water discharges are not ‘sludge’ Following the release of a report by environmental group ICCT, the Clean Shipping Alliance expresses its concern about the wrong perception of Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems (“scrubbers”) and wash water discharges portrayed in the publication. “We welcome all scientific inquiries on Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems that are objective and well-researched. However, in the case of the most recent report issued by the ICCT, there appears again to be just too many errors – including the very high assumptions used in their calcul...

Photo: HHI The world's first Class and Flag approval for AI-based fire monitoring system in shipbuilding industry has been given to Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI). Hyundai Heavy Industries Group independently has developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based safety management/monitoring system (HiCAMS) and obtained classification and flag Approval-in-Principal (AIP) for the first time in the shipbuilding industry. This new method will be one of the core technologies to manage and control safety aboard next-generation smart ships and autonomous ships. The ...

Home / Shipping News / Shipbuilding News / Hyundai Heavy Industries takes a step further in ‘Autonomous ship’ design by developing AI solution for ship safety Hyundai Heavy Industries takes a step further in ‘Autonomous ship’ design by developing AI solution for ship safety Hyundai Heavy Industries Group independently has developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based safety management/monitoring system (HiCAMS) and obtained classification and flag Approval-in-Principal (AIP) for the first time in the shipbuilding industry. This new method will beone of the core technologies to manag...

By Chevanev A.Y Charles The Covid-19 pandemic has proven to be disastrous in the lives of many seafarers everywhere. Hundreds of thousands of these essential maritime workers have faced unemployment, strained working conditions, extended contracts and minimal mental health support. SVG seafarers are among those who have been gravely affected. After seafarers in SVG were brought back from abroad, many have not been working for several months. Fortunately, some have …

Hunger strike of abandoned bulker crew in Kuwait moves into 2nd month After 11 months without pay for their families, 19 seafarers on board the  MV Ula bulk carrier in the port of Shuaiba, Kuwait have gone on a hunger strike, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) said. The mixed crew from India, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Bangladesh are demanding immediate repatriation and payment of $410,415.65 they are owed in wages. They have rejected all meals from 7 January, saying they cannot eat while their families go hungry. Their hunger strike now drags into February. Six of the crew...