IMO Members Edge Towards Strengthening Environmental Targets

Details: Category: Seguridad marítima; Published on Sunday, 11 December 2022 21:45; Written by Administrator2; Hits: 697

MARITIME EXECUTIVE

PUBLISHED DEC 11, 2022 12:43 PM BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE

After the greenhouse gas working group at the International Maritime Organization, the consensus is that member states are about to adopt a more stringent greenhouse gas reduction target that would align shipping with the Paris Agreement on climate change.

The crucial Maritime Environmental Protection Committee meeting, known as MEPC79, takes place at IMO headquarters in London next week. The current IMO target is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from ships by 50 percent by 2050. In this era of heightened environmental concern, the pressure has been growing to align the industry with the Paris Agreement goal of keeping global warming to no more than 1.5°C. The maritime shipping industry is responsible

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Capitanía Marítima dirige un ejercicio de lucha contra la contaminación para atajar un vertido de 60 toneladas de fuel-oil

Details: Category: Seguridad marítima; Published on Tuesday, 29 November 2022 08:36; Written by Administrator2; Hits: 673

https://www.mitma.gob.es/

Cuándo: 29-11-2022 a las 13:00

Dónde: Al sur del pantalán de DECAL. (Puerto de Huelva)

La Capitanía Marítima de Huelva, perteneciente a la Dirección General de la Marina Mercante del Ministerio de Transportes, Movilidad y Agenda Urbana (Mitma) dirigirá mañana, martes, día 29, un ejercicio de lucha contra la contaminación marina que simulará un vertido de 60 toneladas de fuel-oil procedentes de un buque petrolero.

El ejercicio tendrá lugar en el pantalán Reina Sofía donde se ubican las instalaciones de CEPSA, en las instalaciones de DECAL y en el muelle sur del Puerto de Huelva.

Los medios interesados en recabar declaraciones podrán entrevistar al capitán marítimo de Huelva, Alejandro Andray, a las 12.00 horas, al sur del pantalán de DECAL.

WIKING.-Liferafts and accessories

Details: Category: Seguridad marítima; Published on Monday, 28 November 2022 06:14; Written by Administrator2; Hits: 714

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Liferafts and accessories

VIKING is the world’s leading provider of liferafts for the maritime and offshore industry. Our wide range of throw-overboard and davit launchable liferafts are available in a standard version and a top-of-the-line, automatically self-righting version with stowage heights of up to 60 m. VIKING also supplies all types of liferaft accessories such as liferaft cradles, hooks, davits, sliding racks and columns racks.

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Details: Category: Seguridad marítima; Published on Monday, 28 November 2022 06:39; Written by Administrator2; Hits: 763

Publicado por Marine Insight

Inmersion in the cold water

Details: Category: Seguridad marítima; Published on Monday, 28 November 2022 05:58; Written by Administrator2; Hits: 857

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Immersion Into Cold Water

Gordon G. Giesbrecht, Alan M. Steinman

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The authors of this chapter hail from two different countries that view and measure temperature differently. The United States uses ° F (Fahrenheit), whereas the country up north uses ° C. (Some people think that the letter C stands for “Celsius,” but it actually means “Canadian.”) The author from up north has provided a conversion chart to allow neighbors from either side of the border to get on the same thermal wavelength (Box 6-1).

BOX 6-1 The Official Canadian Temperature Conversion Chart

10° C (50° F)

Americans shiver uncontrollably.

Canadians plant gardens.

0° C (32° F)

American water freezes.

Canadian water gets thicker.

−18° C (0°

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