IMO Regulations and Guidelines for Ballast Water Treatment Systems. Ballast water is essential for safe and efficient shipping operations, but it can also pose serious ecological, economic and health problems due to the transfer of harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens in ships’ ballast water. These invasive species can cause damage to biodiversity, natural resources, human […]
ITF also known as International Transport Worker Federation and JNG- Joint Negotiating Group have come to an agreement regarding the increase of wages of seafarers. From Next year 2022, there will be increase of 3% in wages and from January 2023 another 1.5%. Employers and Union met in September this year and finally this much […]
Electrical propulsion on ships has been discussed in this article in detail. Electric propulsion is used mostly on passenger vessels or Cruise lines and other small vessels. But with emissions norms becoming stringent, they will make their way into merchant shipping as well. Electrical propulsion has lot of advantages over the internal combustion engines which […]
