Global Maritime

ANTAQ publica los procedimientos de alteración de los Esquemas Operativos de EBN para las fiestas de fin de año

1 noviembre, 2022

Source: ANTAQ La Agencia Nacional de Transportes Acuáticos (ANTAQ) anuncia los procedimientos para posibles cambios en los esquemas operativos de las Empresas Brasileñas de Navegación (EBN’s) que prestan servicios en el transporte de pasajeros o mixto autorizados por la Agencia. Los días/horas de llegada y salida de los buques pueden cambiar a petición de las empresas autorizadas, que deben cumplir con los procedimientos divulgados por carta. La idea es poner a disposición de los pasajeros embarcaciones que satisfagan la necesidad de llegar a su destino a la hora correcta para que puedan disfrutar de las fiestas de fin de año. Son cambios ocasionales, pero se producen todos los años. La idea es promover y organizar, junto con las empresas, el ajuste de la oferta con la demanda, ya que muchos pasajeros cambian de viaje debido a las celebraciones. Es un ajuste merecido para los usuarios del transporte fluvial, que deja la rigidez del esquema consignado en el plazo de autorización para el esquema flexible al periodo festivo. Las solicitudes deben presentarse hasta el 5 de diciembre de 2022 por medios digitales, a través del Sistema de Información Electrónica (SEI) o a través del Sistema de Subvención Electrónica (SOE) – disponible

Synergies to establish green hydrogen export corridor from Chile to Europe

1 noviembre, 2022

The Netherlands is organizing a green H2 Trade Mission from November 7th to 11th 2022 to Chile. Leading Dutch companies from the energy sector will come and explore opportunities to develop and grow the Chilean Green Hydrogen economy. Source: Port Of Rotterdam Focus is on hydrogen infrastructure needed to secure the green hydrogen supply chain (production, storage, transportation, distribution), formulating conditions for establishing an import-export corridor between Chile and Europe, the social and economic impact, as well as investigate opportunities for concrete applications for the local energy transition. This also includes territorial aspects. Interest for this H2 mission is high, as the Chilean strategy is to become one of the largest and possibly most competitive renewable energy producers worldwide by 2030. Representatives from Dutch companies including Port of Rotterdam, Port of Amsterdam, but also consultants, storage and transportation providers will visit Chile for one week to meet key actors of this flourishing Chilean Green Hydrogen ecosystem. Visits are planned to the main hydrogen hubs in the country and, encounters with companies and local authorities to discuss opportunities and challenges for green hydrogen production, export, and local energy transition. This Green H2 Trade Mission to Chile, organized by the Netherlands Enterprise

Exploring opportunities for Indonesia in decarbonizing shipping

28 octubre, 2022

Source: IMO Indonesia, as the world’s largest archipelago with a major shipping fleet and a geographic location close to multiple strategic waterways, is a key player in the decarbonization of the maritime sector. Holding the current presidency of G20, Indonesia is focusing on energy transition as one of three priority areas for its presidency. This presents a good opportunity to discuss shipping decarbonization and the opportunities in renewable energy production in the run up to the Bali G20 Summit (15-16 November). Against this backdrop, IMO, in collaboration with the Governments of Indonesia and Denmark, co-organized and co-sponsored* a conference in Bali, Indonesia (27-28 October). It focused on the necessity of the decarbonization of the shipping sector and explored opportunities for Indonesia and members of the G20 to take leadership in advancing this important agenda. Through a programme of high-level in-person panels, exhibitions and a guided workshop, key decision-makers and senior advisers from Indonesia and other countries, leading business representatives from the maritime value-chain, from ship-owners and operators to cargo owners, ports, energy producers and financial institutions, academia and civil society, were apprised of the need to decarbonize shipping. They were also informed of the opportunities it creates, including an understanding

Digitisation of airspace for the use of drones

27 octubre, 2022

The Port Authority has to prepare the airspace for these applications and is therefore setting up a U-Space Airspace prototype – more or less the counterpart of air traffic control for aircraft. To test in practice how we should organise the airspace over the port and keep it safe, the Port Authority has entered into a partnership agreement with software supplier Airwayz. Source: Port of Rotterdam Drones will be a common phenomenon in the skies over the port of the future. To make the port more efficient and safer, drone companies will provide more services in the next few years. It is also expected that drones will be deployed for longer-distance flights, manned as well as unmanned. Airwayz supplies the Unmanned Traffic Management system (UTM), which offers air traffic control services for very-low-level (VLL) airspace. These services are used by drone operators and include flight permission and deconfliction services. First of all, it is essential that manned and unmanned flights in the lowest airspace are visualised. The protocols, procedures, agreements and risk profiles with respect to airspace are drawn up by the Port of Rotterdam Authority as the port manager and by the government as the legislator. This makes the

Fleet of electric cranes operating at Port Of Long Beach Terminal

26 octubre, 2022

Source: Port Of Long Beach Longshore workers are using nine electric cranes to stack containers at one of the Port of Long Beach’s busiest terminals in a large-scale demonstration project as the Port and its partners pursue a goal of a zero-emissions cargo handling fleet by 2030. The demonstration at SSA Marine Pier J is part of the Zero-Emissions Terminal Equipment Transition Project, which is funded in large part by a $9.7 million California Energy Commission grant. The Port, the CEC and Southern California Edison are partnering on the project to put into daily service 21 human-operated vehicles that are zero- or near-zero emissions at three of the Port’s marine terminals and trucking company Total Transportation Services Inc. to test their performance in a real-world setting. As part of the project, SSA retrofitted nine of its existing diesel-powered rubber-tired gantry cranes to run on electricity, recently completing the last one. “In the decades since we created the Green Port Policy, our ambitions have grown from cleaning the air for our community to showing the world it’s possible to do that everywhere,” said Port of Long Beach Executive Director Mario Cordero. “These demonstrations are designed to commercialize heavy-duty zero emissions equipment

Colombia: En Cartagena Autoridad Marítima Colombiana y Organización Marítima Internacional lideran Taller Regional para el Convenio de Agua de Lastre en la Región Caribe

25 octubre, 2022

Fuente: Dimar El taller que cuenta con la asistencia de 18 países de Centroamérica y el Caribe: Antigua y Barbuda, Belice, Colombia, Costa Rica, República Dominicana, El Salvador, Guyana, Haití, Honduras, Jamaica, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Saint Kitts y Nevis, Santa Lucía, San Vicente y las Granadinas, Surinam y Trinidad y Tobago, tiene como objetivo fortalecer la implementación, cumplimiento y aplicación del Convenio de Agua de Lastre en la Región del Caribe, atendiendo a las necesidades físicas, químicas y biológicas de la región con miras a preservar y proteger el medio marino. El agua de lastre de los buques es normalmente identificada como la vía para la introducción involuntaria de especies de plantas, animales y microbios en zonas distintas a su hábitat habitual, esta es usada por los barcos pues cuando navegan a media capacidad de carga necesitan lastre para tener estabilidad, por ello toman agua que es almacenada en tanques y posteriormente es vertida en puertos cuando el barco es cargado, por ello el Capitán de Navío Darío Sanabria, Capitán de Puerto de Cartagena, manifestó la importancia de continuar trabajando en el desarrollo de capacidades para evitar la introducción de organismos patógenos, una situación en la que la comunidad internacional

South Florida Container Terminal welcomes new Medgulf service; Announces order for more cranes

24 octubre, 2022

South Florida Container Terminal (SFCT) located in the Port of Miami, welcomed the new CMA CGM Medgulf service. The weekly service offers Florida supply chains a first port of call to/from the West Med before proceeding into the U.S. Gulf and Mexico. The new route also offers an improved transit time from the Indian Subcontinent via Tanger, with 29-day transit to Miami. Source: APM Terminals The service started end of September 2022 and calls Tanger, Genoa, Valencia, Miami, Veracruz, Altamira and Houston. Six vessels will operate the service including the CMA CGM NAVEGANTES that called SFCT on October 19th. To prepare for future cargo growth and larger ships, SFCT is announcing an order for more cargo handling equipment at the port. 12 electric, emission-free, rubber tire gantry cranes have been ordered from Konecranes for delivery in Q2 2023. The order comes on the heels of a three-year modernization project that transformed the facility into a more sustainable operation with new, electric rubber tire gantry (RTG) cranes and added cargo storage space, using a densification model which allows 33% more usability in the container yard than before. This will increase capacity to approximately 300,000 lifts per year. Hugh Healey, Head of

Starting in November, transhipments by feeder ship will reduce road congestion

20 octubre, 2022

Source: Port of Hamburg As of November 1, 2022, feeder ships can be strategically used for container transfers between the major terminals in the Port of Hamburg. The projected benefits include providing relief the port infrastructure by reducing the number of truck journeys between the terminals, shorter waiting times at the terminals and a related decrease in CO2 emissions. The way is paved by Danish shipping company Unifeeder as initiator, together with the Hamburg software specialist DAKOSY and DIHLA DAKOSY Interessengemeinschaft Hamburger Linienagenten (DIHLA). Collectively they have created a digital process that also covers customs handling. Every day in the Port of Hamburg, container transhipments (transfers of containers between large container ships and feeder vessels) which are not loaded at the same terminal happen on a huge scale. In total, the Port of Hamburg had approximately 3.3 million TEU of transhipments in 2021, although not every transfer results in a transshipment. “Ship-based transshipments can take several thousand containers off the road each year. Every container we can move via waterway means a reduction in C02,” DIHLA Managing Director Alexander Geisler points out. Use case: Unifeeder sees migration potential of 50 percent“For these container transhipments, we see a high potential to

Arrival of natural gas at Valenciaport increases by three

19 octubre, 2022

Between January and September 2022, a total of 3,038,695 tonnes of natural gas have been moved through the Sagunto Port Liquid bulks, due to the push of natural gas but also of other energy products, have the highest traffic in the history of Valenciaport Solid bulks (cereals or animal feed) also show a great dynamism with an increase of 8.74% The geopolitical situation and the economic uncertainty mark Valenciaport’s figures. In the first nine months of the year, freight traffic fell by 3.27% and container traffic fell by 6.59% Source: Valenciaport The arrival of natural gas at the Port of Sagunto has tripled during the first nine months of this year to reach 3,038,695 tonnes compared to 1,039,875 tonnes in 2021, which represents an increase of 192.22% according to data from the Statistical Bulletin of the Port Authority of Valencia (PAV). Of this total, practically 60% comes from the United States, which has become the main supplier to the Sagunto site. A situation marked by the geopolitical scenario – with the war in Ukraine or the situation with Algeria – which has positioned the Port of Sagunto, which has a regasification plant, as a strategic point for the import/export of

Cruise Industry demonstrates commitment to pursuing net-zero carbon cruising globally by 2050

18 octubre, 2022

Despite advancements, report highlights need for development and deployment of sustainable marine fuels Source: CLIA Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), the leading voice of the global cruise industry, today released the results of its 2022 Global Cruise Industry Environmental Technologies and Practices Report, showing progress towards achieving the industry’s vision of net-zero carbon cruising globally by 2050. The 2022 report reinforces the cruise industry’s credentials as an innovator and early adopter of environmental technologies. Examples cited include the increasing number of vessels launching over the new few years that will be able to incorporate zero-emissions propulsion when available as well as the growing investment to equip ships to plug in to shoreside electricity where available. In fact, more than 15% of the vessels to be launched in the next five years will be equipped to incorporate fuel cells or batteries, and 85% of CLIA-member ships coming online between now and 2028 will be able to plug in to shoreside electricity, allowing engines to switch off at berth for significant emissions reduction. President, and CEO, CLIA, Kelly Craighead said: “Innovation and engineering are at the heart of the industry’s vision for net zero carbon cruising. The cruise industry continues to lead

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