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A harbor tug developed by Keppel Offshore & Marine and outfitted with technology from ABB is continuing to establish new levels in the efforts to move to automation. The tug’s autonomous operations for collision avoidance were recently verified making it the first vessel in the world to receive Autonomous and Remote-Control Navigation Notation from classification society ABS and the first Singapore-flagged vessel to receive the Smart (Autonomous) Notation from MPA.

According to ABB, the notations acknowledge the breakthrough performance of the tug as it helps to advance the field of autonomous operations. The demonstration of the autonomous collision avoidance capabilities in trials conducted at Raffles Reserved Anchorage, off Singapore Island, in March 2022, came just a year after the same vessel, the Maju 510, became the world’s first vessel to secure the ABS Remote-Control Navigation Notation, following initial remote operation trials at the Port of Singapore in April 2021.

The 105-foot-long harbor owned and operated by Keppel Smit Towage is being used to demonstrate the emerging technologies designed to both improve safety as well as relieve the crew of tasks that can be automated, enabling them to perform at their best during critical periods. Keppel O&M is the project lead for the autonomous solutions on the Maju 510, with the digital technologies developed by ABB.

During the most recent trials, the tug demonstrated its ability to autonomously avoid collisions in various scenarios, such as when two other vessels approach simultaneously on colliding paths and when a nearby vessel behaves erratically. The trials were supervised by an onboard tug master.

“I had the pleasure of being aboard Maju 510 during the collision avoidance trials and experiencing how smoothly the tug performed in autonomous mode,” said Romi Kaushal, Managing Director, Keppel Smit Towage. “What I found particularly impressive was how the digital system identified one or several risks in the tug’s planned path and responded to set the vessel on a new, safer course. The vessel performed as if it was operated by an experienced tug master.”

By allowing the crew to focus on the overall situation rather than on performing specific maneuvers, ABB says that the technology enhances safety and efficiency in tug operations. They point out that it can be particularly important in congested shipping hubs like Singapore. Furthermore, the systems can be upgraded to enable higher levels of autonomy depending on local regulations and the requirements of the vessel.

“As the systems integrator, Keppel O&M collaborated with ABB on customizing the autonomous solutions to enhance the vessel’s operational safety and efficiency. By liberating the crew of time- and energy-consuming tasks and improving accuracy during critical maneuvers, our autonomous solution has proven its ability to increase safety in even the busiest of ports. The autonomous solutions are future-ready to handle the growing demand of tug operations in Singapore port,” said Aziz Merchant, Executive Director, Keppel Offshore & Marine.

ABB points out that while the technology is being demonstrated on tugs, the same technology can be applied to a variety of vessel types including wind turbine installation vessels, cruise ships, and ferries. In another recent demonstration of the autonomous technology, the ice-class passenger ferry Suomenlinna II was remotely piloted through the Helsinki harbor. The companies believe that the successful demonstrations and verification by class societies are helping to move the industry a step closer to autonomous operations.
Source: https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/next-level-of-vessel-autonomy-verified-on-singapore-tug

Further reflecting the progress that has been made in reducing the danger of piracy off the east coast of Africa and into the Indian Ocean, the shipping industry plans to formally end the “High Risk Area,” designation as of the first of the year. While a level of risk remains, they highlight that there have been no boardings in nearly four years with the last reports coming in 2019 of pirates being scared away by EU forces after menacing a vessel near the Horn of Africa.

The official notification of the plan to end the designation was submitted to the International Maritime Organization, today, August 22, to be reviewed and approved at the next meeting of the Maritime Safety Committee scheduled to start on October 31. 2022. The decision to end the designation was made by the International Chamber of Shipping, BIMCO, International Marine Contractors Association, INTERCARGO, INTERTANKO, and the Oil Companies International Marine Forum.

“This announcement is a testament to nearly 15 years of dedicated collaboration to reduce the threat of piracy in the Indian Ocean. Through a combination of efforts by military, political, civil society, and the shipping industry over the years, operators and seafarers are now able to operate with increased confidence in these waters,” the groups said in their joint statement to the IMO.

The designation of the region as a High Risk Area began in 2010 near the peak of the attacks on ships near the Horn of Africa. Two years earlier, the Council of the European Union adopted an action plan based on UN resolutions, to establish the executive EU military maritime operation for Somalia. Known as Operation ATALANTA, the mission was the deterrence, prevention, and repression of acts of piracy and armed robbery off the Somali coast.

At the height of Somali piracy in January 2011, EU Naval Force – Somalia reports there were 736 hostages and 32 ships being held by pirates. The combined efforts contributed to a reduction in activity so that two years later they were able to report that there had been no successful hijackings of a commercial vessel and the last confirmed attack on a vessel came in 2018. EU NavFor reported that it chased away a small boat in 2019 but Iran has continued to report that its navy has intervened in recent attacks. The EU mission was extended in 2020 to continue to patrol the waters and specifically to protect commercial ships in the World Food Program and others that might be vulnerable to attack. EU NavFor’s mandate is currently scheduled to end on December 31, 2022.

The removal of the HRA reflects a significantly improved piracy situation in the region, said the organizations. A year ago, they had reduced the size of the designated region, but they said today the end of the designation would not come till year’s end allowing charterers, shipowners, and operators time to adapt to the changed threat from piracy. The groups continue to warn, however, that threat and risk assessments should still be carried out and ships are still encouraged to report to the UKMTO and register with the Maritime Security Centre for the Horn of Africa under the Voluntary Reporting Area administered by UKMTO.

Late in 2021, the UN Security Council began efforts to scale back and end the international programs in the region. As late as March 2022, the EU expressed, however, concern over ending the program while there remains political unrest in Somalia.
Source: https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/indian-ocean-high-risk-designation-to-be-withdrawn-at-end-of-2022

The UK has unveiled a new five-year maritime strategy that sets out the guiding principles for the UK Government’s approach to managing threats and risks at home and around the world.

The new strategy redefines maritime security as; upholding laws, regulations, and norms to deliver a free, fair, and open maritime domain. With this new approach, the Government recognises any Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing and environmental damage to the seas as a maritime security concern.

In addition, to enhance the UK’s maritime security knowledge, the Government has established the UK Centre for Seabed Mapping (UK CSM), that seeks to enable the UK’s seabed mapping sector to collaborate to collect more and better data. Seabed mapping underpins many maritime operations including trade and shipping.

Working with industry and academia, Secretaries of State from DEFRA, DfT, FCDO, Home Office and MoD will focus on five strategic objectives:

Protecting our homeland: Delivering the world’s most effective maritime security framework for our borders, ports and infrastructure
Responding to threats: Taking a whole system approach to bring world leading capabilities and expertise to bear to respond to new emerging threats
Ensuring prosperity: Ensuring the security of international shipping, the unimpeded transmission of goods, information and energy to support continued global development and our economic prosperity
Championing values: Championing global maritime security underpinned by freedom of navigation and the International Order
Supporting a secure, resilient ocean: Tackling security threats and breaches of regulations that impact clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse maritime environment

The UK Chamber of Shipping CEO, Sarah Treseder said:“A proactive maritime security strategy is essential to keeping trade routes and energy supplies secure, especially for an island nation. Today’s welcome commitments to improve collaboration, both with industry and governments across the world, will help deliver a more secure maritime environment and help provide confidence to the shipping community.”

Source: https://thedigitalship.com/news/maritime-satellite-communications/item/7997-new-maritime-security-strategy-to-target-physical-and-cyber-threats

According to New York broker, Poten & Partners, the last VLCC contract was placed in June 2021, followed a month later by the last Suezmax order. No new panamax tankers or LR1 tonnage have been ordered since April 2020 and only six Aframax/LR2s and seven MRs have been ordered so far this year, the broker said.

The tanker market is fraught with uncertainty. Not only do owners face prices up by close to 20-30% on first-half 2021 prices, but there is uncertainty on propulsion type and, of course, bigger questions about the future of tanker shipping generally as the world’s decarbonisation drive becomes more urgent.

“There is the general expectation that global oil demand (and its transportation) will likely peak within the nest 10-20 years,” Poten said in its most recent weekly Tanker Opinion.

For a shipowner, that is not a strong incentive to invest in an asset that has a 20-year life. Especially, if (in the case of a VLCC) it is 28% more expensive than last year and you won’t get it delivered for at least another two years.”

That explains why tanker owners are targeting secondhand tonnage. A secondhand tanker is cheaper (in relative terms), Poten said, and can be employed in today’s rising market immediately.

Noting that Greek and Chinese owners have been particularly active as both buyers and sellers, the broker said: “Buyers want to expand or renew their fleet to take advantage of rising rates, while sellers see an opportunity to shed older assets at attractive prices and/or realise some gains on previously acquired tonnage.”

Source: https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/tankers/no-large-tanker-newbuilds-ordered-over-year

The infamous grounding of cargo ship Ever Given at the Suez Canal last year caused disruption to as much as S$10 billion worth of global trade per day due to the congestion of the critical trade route. It is a reminder of the importance of maritime transport in the flow of goods and services that underpin the interconnected global economy.

Maritime transport helps facilitate worldwide trade, where an estimated 90% of traded goods are transported by sea and is depended on by many different industries. Being the backbone of global trade and supply chain, any disruption can lead to grave consequences – daily necessities may not reach store shelves and connected industries could suffer significant losses from an unpredictable supply chain and the inability to produce essential goods.

The maritime industry has been under immense pressure from the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The other element straining the system is the ever-escalating wave of cyber threats globally. They include threat actors collaborating to carry out malicious attacks, structural challenges such as a high volume of vulnerabilities affecting operational technology (OT) and firmware, weakness in patching management, and the lack of OT cybersecurity talent and matured practices for cyber defence.

According to the Ensign Cyber Threat Landscape 2022 report, the maritime sector is one of the top targeted sectors in Singapore when it comes to Ransomware cyber-attacks. Whether it is the critical infrastructure, or the shipbuilding and logistics subsectors, Singapore’s maritime industry is facing increasing interest from cyber adversaries due to its critical role as a maritime hub port.

For example, the Death Kitty ransomware disrupted TransNet’s container and trucking operations in July 2021. Other impacts detected by Ensign throughout 2021 include the theft of data that could be sold by threat actors, as well as serious disruptions to companies involved in logistics and supply chains.

The rising tide of cyber threats against the maritime sector

The maritime industry has gone through accelerated digitalisation, making technology vital to the operation and management of the safety and security of ships, port operations and logistics. Gone are the days when OT and IT systems could function separately in silos. The need for greater connectivity between technologies such as IT, OT and IoT as well as vendors have propelled the maritime industry to new heights of fleet efficiency, route optimisation, and profit margins.

However, the increased interconnectivity has also heightened cyber threat exposures and corresponding risks for organisations. The ramifications of a cyber-attack can be wide-ranging. Ship collisions, for example, could occur because of e-navigation and other systems being hacked, resulting in physical loss or damage to ships, bodily injury to personnel, cargo loss, pollution, and business interruption. It is also possible that the port’s operations may be disrupted, resulting in significant losses due to business disruption for the port and other dependent businesses operations.

In addition to losses sustained because of physical asset damage or destruction, significant expenditures may be incurred when responding to an adverse cyber incident. If the personal data of employees or customers are compromised, for example, large legal expenditures may be required to respond to the breach, pay the penalties, notify the data protection regulator and data subjects, as well as to defend potential legal proceedings.

Shoring up the maritime cyber defences

While it is impossible to keep out all cyber-attacks, maritime organisations should strengthen their defences to manage the growing threats they now face.

Here are six cyber defensive actions maritime organisations can take to strengthen their cyber defences:

Maritime organisations should leverage the cybersecurity community for cyber threat information and foster greater intelligence sharing to build early warning systems and protocols.

They should bolster their cybersecurity hygiene. This includes establishing security baselines and implementing system and application architectures for rapid patching and virtual patching to reduce mean time to mitigation.

To defend against new or unknown threats, organisations should establish continuous monitoring across the ecosystem through reviews, cyber monitoring, threat hunting, behavioural analytics, and horizon scanning.

Maritime companies can mitigate the impact of disruptive cyber-attacks, such as Ransomware, by reviewing and revising incident and crisis management plans and playbooks. They can also run exercises to validate the organisation’s confidence in business recovery.

To manage cyber risk exposure from their vendor and partner ecosystem, maritime organisations need to mandate incident reporting from vendors. This includes allowing access to audit cybersecurity controls, and monitoring vendors for dynamic cyber risk context.

Lastly, cyber security awareness and training is important. Maritime organisations should invest in upgrading their cybersecurity teams’ skills and prioritise engineers and technicians to learn about cybersecurity and defensive actions.

Cybersecurity is an ongoing operation, and organisations need to maintain cyber hygiene and vigilance regardless of the increasing intensity of conflict, incidents, or crisis. With Singapore being a key international transportation and logistics hub, maritime organisations’ efforts in protecting their operations from cyber threats will go a long way to reducing the risk of disruption to a global supply chain that is already under considerable stress.

Source: https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/opinions-analysis/bracing-rising-tide-cyber-threats-against-maritime-industry

RGST, which operates the largest terminal facility in Saudi Arabia at Jeddah Islamic Port, was selected by Bangladesh’s Ministry of Transport.

The Port of Chittagong, recently renamed as Chattogram, handled a record 3.2m teu in 2021, and is the busiest port in the Bay of Bengal, serving as gateway for 90% of Bangladesh’s import and export ocean cargo. The majority of import shipments are destined for the capital, Dhaka, 265 km (165 miles) away.

“The port also serves as the main gateway for Bangladesh’s fast-growing exports including its garments trade, one of the largest globally. The new facility, being built by the Bangladeshi government, will feature a 600 metre quay and will be able to handle three vessels simultaneously, augmenting the ship handling capacity at Chattogram port,” an RSGT statement said.

In 2017, the Government of Bangladesh adopted a “Policy for Implementing Private-Public Partnerships (PPP) Projects through Government-to-Government Partnerships (G2G)”, RSGT said. In February, the Bangladeshi Ministry of Shipping proposed a plan for the development of PCT based on the PPP model to the Saudi government which in turn nominated RSGT as the Saudi investor.

“We are extremely pleased to have been selected for this opportunity. The rapid growth of hittagong Port’s cargo volumes necessitates further investment in modern equipment, advanced technology and building new human capacity,” said RSGT’s director of global investments, Gagan Seksaria.

“This project fits well with Red Sea Gateway Terminal’s competencies and its expansion strategy for emerging markets. We are very confident that, through this investment, we will be able to contribute significantly to Bangladesh’s fast-growing trade and economy.”

A 2019 study by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) into loan assistance it had provided to Chittagong Port Authority’s development plans found that the port’s strategic location made it an appropriate alternative to other ports in the region.

“Much work still needs to be done before the full potential of Chittagong Port’s gateway function for third-country trade… can materialise. The project’s envisaged outcome of increased container capacity was achieved,” it said.

“However, the project’s enhanced facilities were not able to accommodate the boom in international trade. Chittagong Port is still beset with lingering congestion problems and the new facilities have not been able to keep abreast with the growing demand for port services.”

In 2021, RSGT announced the sale of a 40% equity stake worth $280m to China’s Cosco Shipping Ports Limited (CSPL) and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF). “Working closely with PIF and CSPL, we will accelerate our shared vision, further strengthen our customer offering, and elevate our mandate to meet the increasing demand for terminal and logistics services,” Jens O. Floe, CEO of RSGT, said.

Source: https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/ports/red-sea-gateway-wins-port-terminal-expansion-project-bangladesh

As many will already know, S-100 is the new International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) Universal Hydrographic Data Model. Profiled from the ISO 19100 series of Geographic Information Standards and a much broader foundation to eventually replace the existing IHO S-57 standard, S-100 has been designed to quickly and easily be extended to better accommodate digital hydrographic data exchange and other future technological and navigational developments.

S-100 now supports imagery and gridded data, high-density bathymetry, and dynamic under keel clearance management in ECDIS, in addition to many other maritime data applications. Thanks to this, the standard will enrich the next generation of data products for hydrographic, maritime shipping, and geographic information system communities.

In a navigation context, S-100 will enable improved safety of life at sea functions and promote enhanced situational awareness through the provision of a richer granularity of bathymetric data, in combination with tidal height data, which will dynamically adjust depth in ECDIS. From a navigational perspective, what this means is that numerous different digital data sets and overlays will be available to bridge teams to enhance all stages of the passage planning and execution process.

In the future, digital layers will replace multiple nautical publications, which in combination with weather forecasting will support enhanced passage optimization and Just-In-Time arrival. Whilst S-100 in its current guise is designed for humans to read and interpret on an ECDIS, because S-100 standards are fully extensible it can accommodate future requirements that may arise through developments in Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS).

The future digital data products being designed for MASS will look very different from those used today in ECDIS, as ENC data is very deliberately designed, filtered, and managed to avoid overwhelming the user with too much information. This helps to give the mariner only the correct information needed to support safe navigation decisions. However, in the future, MASS systems will be capable of handling very large, complex data sets which are not intended for mariners and other end users to visually interpret. This will present new, and exciting, challenges linked to data formats and delivery of new MASS navigation products.

Steering the development of the S-100 standard for MASS

Through our work with the MASS community, the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) recognised the need to ensure that the S-100 standard caters for both crewed and uncrewed shipping so a common situational awareness and navigation picture can be used across both types of vessel.

We presented this case to understand the requirements for MASS navigation to the IHO. The organization has established a Project Team with a two-year remit to identify and prioritize MASS navigation requirements, analyze the impact on the S-100 hydrographic standards and services, and develop a set of recommendations to be addressed by existing Working Groups.

Chaired by the UKHO, the Project Team has membership from Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Iran, Japan, Norway, Rep of Korea, Sweden, UK, US, Singapore & Malta. The Project Team has concluded a discovery phase which involved engaging with MASS builders, operators, and system integrators around the globe to understand the challenges the industry face with navigation from a traditional product or service perspective. This resulted in 45 new requirements for MASS navigation that will now be examined against each S-100 standard to identify if the requirement has been met in the development of S-100, or if there is a gap in the individual standards. If gaps are identified, the project team will make a number of recommendations to the relevant Working Groups to address the gap, thereby future proofing S-100 for MASS navigation.

Mayflower Autonomous Ship – practical application of S-100 for MASS

As part of its work investigating MASS navigation requirements and specifically how S-100 may address them, the UKHO has been working closely with Marine AI, the team that built the navigation systems used in the Mayflower Autonomous Ship project based in Plymouth, UK.

When Mayflower set sail across the Atlantic on 28 April 2022, the vessel navigated out of Plymouth Sound using UKHO S-100 data, a world-first for a fully autonomous vessel and S-100. We then conducted experiments to look at how S-101 (ENC), S-102 (gridded bathymetry), S-104 (gridded surface water levels), and S-111 (gridded surface currents) could be used to safely sail an autonomous vessel.

The S-100 data was loaded into the Mayflower’s chart data server, which allows the autonomy modules to extract relevant information and make navigation decisions. The combined S-102 and S-104 data allowed the Mayflower to easily obtain temporal-based water depth information and generate ‘no go’ areas. The S-111 data proved essential in restricted and dynamic water space, such as the Cattewater and the narrows leading into the river Tamar. Overall, the S-100 data sets increased reliability and data quality – specifically related to depth sampling – and resulted in significant computational cost savings using S-101 over S-57.

The bigger picture

As a complete series, S-100 promises to bring new opportunities for day-to-day shipping operations, generating the potential for safer, more sustainable, and more prosperous trade. At the same time, more accurate, harmonious data will improve decision-making in passage planning, vessel operations, and support, and overall ‘smart steaming’ by taking advantage of prevailing conditions such as tides, weather, and port infrastructure – including the availability and readiness of berths, pilots, and tugs. This is how S-100 will enable more refined voyage optimization and Just-In-Time arrival, playing a pivotal role in supporting global shipping decarbonization goals.

These exciting advancements in S-100 will be instrumental in improving marine navigational data and the products and solutions that shipping companies, mariners, and ports will use in their operations in the future.

Source: https://maritime-executive.com/features/data-standard-brings-enhanced-safety-and-commercial-opportunities

August 17 is Indonesia’s Independence Day. Usually, I celebrate by attending events held in my neighborhood and then a flag ceremony at the nearest government office. But this year, it is different as I have an opportunity to celebrate on a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) ship.

I started my journey on the evening of August 16. It was not easy getting to the ship. From where I live in the city of Surabaya, I travelled to Sampang Regency which is approximately 85 km away to get to the shore base of the ship management company for a briefing and inspection of my carry-on and personal items. Matches and firearms are prohibited.

“The inspection is to ensure the safety of all crew members in the middle of the sea,” said Bimo Aryo, Shorebase Superintendant.

After that, I continued on to the Port of Branta, Pamekasan Regency, to board a utility boat, which took an hour to reach the FPSO in the Java Sea. For me, the hardest part of the journey was getting on to the FPSO as the structure was so tall and everyone has to use a rope basket, which is lifted by a crane from the utility boat to the deck of the FPSO.

“It feels like paragliding, if the wind is strong, the basket will rock constantly. If the wind is calm, then it is ok. But for a first timer, it can be a very nervous experience. My advice is always follow the safety instruction of the crew on duty,” said Umar, a crew member who was with me at that time.

There are strict regulations on the ship. While working, the crew has to have safety goggles, overalls, helmets and emergency breathing equipment, among others.

Ship captain Boy Valentino said: “These tools are essential as we are working in dangerous environment. Also, there are prohibitions like cellphones can only be used in accommodation area and nowhere else, disposal of garbage must be separated, fires must not be lighted carelessly, not recommended to lock rooms due to need for rescue in case of emergency, footwear must be worn at all times, etc.”

When I arrived, crew members who were not on duty were busily taking part in several competitions like table tennis, karaoke and digital games. Because of the coming holiday, the mood was lively. Everyone was in a celebratory mood, even those that are not Indonesians.

A Canadian crew member said: “It has been like this for a week already. There are many activities and competitions leading up to Independence Day. It is great and we enjoy taking this chance to interact with our Indonesian colleagues. There was even one American colleague who won the karaoke competition.”

I stayed the night onboard the ship. The next morning at around 6.30 am, all Indonesian crew members joined the flag ceremony to commemorate Independence Day. The entire crew stood in formation at the stern, which is also the Heli Deck. The wind speed on this morning was 15 knots and the waves were half a meter high. Standing tall and at attention in this situation was not easy at all.

Despite the tough condition, pride was seen on all the crew members’ faces. When Indonesia’s red and white national flag was hoisted, they saluted proudly.

Captain Boy said: “Our Indonesian colleagues took two months, during their spare time, to prepare for the celebration and this flag ceremony. They did this in spite of their busy schedule and difficult job. Instead of using their spare time to rest and relax, they showed love for their country.”

Source: https://maritimefairtrade.org/indonesian-seafarers-celebrates-independence-day-on-fpso-ship/


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						Jurong Port, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Asia Pacific (MHI-AP), a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and JERA Asia, a subsidiary of JERA, August 19 concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly explore establishing a 100% ammonia direct combustion power plant on Jurong Island, Singapore, which houses the country’s chemical and energy industries.
Under the MoU, a joint study will be conducted, where a 60MW class gas turbine combined cycle plant fueled by 100% ammonia is planned to be set up to produce carbon-neutral electricity, as well as stimulate ammonia demand to be ready for ammonia bunkering in future.
This MoU builds upon an initial agreement between Jurong Port and MHI-AP signed in August 2021 for a pre-feasibility study on ammonia direct combustion technology for green power generation, which was concluded successfully in March 2022.
In February this year, the Singapore government raised its climate ambition to achieve net-zero CO2 emissions by or around 2050. This project is in alignment with the overall national decarbonization goals, as it aims to utilize ammonia – which can efficiently transport and store hydrogen in a liquid state at low cost – as a fuel to generate carbon-free electricity, and as the main bunkering fuel in future to decarbonize the maritime sector. The MoU will hence explore the viability and commercialization of ammonia for these purposes.
Ooi Boon Hoe, Chief Executive Officer, Jurong Port, said: “We feel this MoU could help pave the way for encouraging the adoption of hydrogen in Singapore through aggregation of demand across multiple sectors, mainly the power sector and the maritime sector, thereby addressing the chicken-and-egg conundrum of infrastructure versus demand needs for maritime and domestic power generation.
“This collaboration is certainly consistent with the spirit of reinforcing Singapore’s premier bunkering hub status – for current, transition and future fuels.”
Osamu Ono, Managing Director, MHI-AP, said: “Ammonia, which consists of hydrogen and nitrogen, is a highly efficient hydrogen carrier and can be directly combusted as a carbon neutral fuel, thereby contributing to the establishment of a robust hydrogen value chain.
“At MHI, we believe that ammonia and hydrogen are key fuels that can help countries meet their net zero goals, and this MoU is an exciting opportunity for us to contribute our technology and expertise to achieve sustainable development in Singapore and subsequently realize the global sustainability agenda.”
Toshiro Kudama, Chief Executive Officer, JERA Asia, said: “JERA is committed to providing cutting edge solutions to the world’s energy issues and is actively working to strengthen both the ammonia and hydrogen value chains. We believe this MoU offers a unique opportunity to support Singapore’s decarbonization efforts while advancing the ammonia technology development for carbon neutral power generation.
“Through initiatives like this, JERA will leverage its experience and capabilities to help countries to reach their net-zero CO2 emissions targets and to build a clean energy supply chain in the region.”
Source: https://maritimefairtrade.org/jurong-port-signs-mou-to-set-up-ammonia-direct-combustion-power-plant/


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						SAFEEN Marine Services, part of AD Ports Group’s Maritime Cluster, announced today it has marked more than 5 million man-hours with Zero Lost Time Injuries (LTI) and zero environmental incidents since its launch in 2012.
Operating in nine commercial ports in the UAE and the Middle East, SAFEEN Marine Services extends HSE policy across a comprehensive portfolio of integrated and tailor-made marine services and solutions, which include towage, quayside-support services, emergency response, vessel assistance, inspections, and shipping maintenance.
Captain Adil Alhammadi, CEO of SAFEEN Marine Services, AD Ports Group said: “We are proud to announce our success in achieving 5 million man-hours with Zero Lost Time Injuries and zero environmental incidents, highlighting our commitment to AD Ports Group’s robust Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) practices that have been cultivated from the highest industry standards.

“We have achieved this remarkable feat by promoting a safety culture across the organisation that comprises progressive HSE policy updates, regular audits, emergency drills, and regular in-house safety and training programmes to promote the wellbeing of our employees whilst maintaining a seamless supply chain network for our customers.”
SAFEEN Marine Services’ commitment to HSE has been celebrated by the industry’s most acclaimed awards and recognitions including the recent 2021 Stevie Business Awards. In addition, the company’s fleet of tugboats, speedboats, and vessels are revered as the most efficient and sophisticated units both regionally and globally, leveraging state-of-the-art technologies that keep energy consumption and emissions to a minimum.
Overseen by more than 200 high professional marine experts, SAFEEN Marine Services’ fleet is today one of the largest and most sophisticated fleets operating within the region, comprising tugboats, pilot and speed boats, maintenance vessels, landing craft and ferries.
Source: https://www.seanews.co.uk/shipping-news/safeen-marine-services-marks-5-million-man-hours-with-zero-lost-time-injuries-or-environmental-incidents/


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