Tropic Oil is not a well-known name to motorists who need gas or motor oil on Florida’s highways.
But to people who run cargo ships, cruise vessels, trucking companies, construction sites, as well
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Stephen Gorey, is the president of Tropic Oil, a 62 year old company that uses its own fleet of trucks to distribute bulk fuel and lubricants to marine, aviation, and industrial customers. Stephen stands in a field of oil barrels on the company grounds, Wednesday, October 15, 2014.Peter Andrew Bosch/Miami Herald staff
The gas bubble bursts
17 Oct 2014 Motorship
It came as something of a shock, especially in the run-up to the Motorship Gas Fuelled Ships conference (which takes place in Stavanger, Norway, on 25-27 November) that one major LNG fuelled ship project had been put on hold.
Brittany Ferries, which had ordered a new large gas-fuelled ro-pax ship and announced plans to convert the newer vessels in its fleet to run on LNG, announced that it would be going for the HFO and exhaust gas scrubber instead. The reason given was that the figures just did not add up, and the company felt the investment could not be justified at this stage.
This seems to go against the general industry feeling that in the medium
Baleares dice no» a las prospecciones
Un momento de la manifestación que ha transcurrido por las principales calles de Palma de Mallorca / Efe
25 octubre 201419:51
Las Islas Baleares han acogido cuatro manifestaciones al grito de "Baleares dice no" para protestar contra las prospecciones petrolíferas y solicitar al Gobierno central un estudio de impacto ambiental negativo para el proyecto de sondeos solicitado por Cairn Energy cerca de Ibiza.
With around 200 responses, the survey also claims that 75% of respondents think the ‘Green Agenda’ can impact business and could act as a success factor, with 78% agreeing that more options need to be made available to encourage companies to invest in green initiatives.
“The survey results are really interesting and clearly highlight that the industry as a whole could use a best-practice guide or a set of options that are clearly available,” said John Barnes of the IMarEST.