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A fire that broke out during the maiden voyage of the world's first liquified hydrogen (LH2) carrier gas carrier Suiso Frontier was caused by an onboard electrical issue, an Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) investigation found   The 116-meter vessel, built as a prototype ship to assess the technical aspects of transporting LH2 by sea, had arrived at the Port of Hastings, Victoria on ...

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India’s Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways has announced that the country will build a new container transshipment terminal, the Galathea Bay Transshipment Port. In a statement, the ministry said a transshipment hub in India would “attract Indian and regional transshipment traffic from the current hubs, save significant revenue loss, reduce logistics inefficiencies for Indian trade, ...

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The Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) as the duly authorized maritime administration of the Islamic Republic of Iran released a statement and explained about the registration of Iranian-related vessels by the Government of Panama, widely covered by Iranian and international media.   According to the PMO News Portal, the statement is as follows: All vessels belonging to the Iranian shipping ...

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Transporting potentially explosive lithium-ion batteries on vessels is a dangerous business, as incidents in recent years have shown. An investigation by the United States Coast Guard into a freight container that caught fire on a US highway in 2021 attributed the blaze to a batch of lithium-ion batteries. The cargo ignited while enroute to the Port of Virginia, where it was to be shipped to China ...

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The acting head of the Iranian Marine Industrial Company (IMIC), Meysam Rayatazad has said that a Russian bulk carrier is being repaired in Iran after being damaged by chunks of ice on the Volga River. He added that the Islamic Republic intends to take on 20% of all ship repairs in the Caspian Sea. Iran Marine Industrial Company (SADRA) is affiliated with the Islamic Revolution Guards ...

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Ali Akbar Safaei, Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development and CEO of the Ports and Maritime Organization. In a message, congratulated the birth of the Prophet Jesus (PBUH) and the beginning of the new year.
According to the Public relation and International Management of the Ports and Maritime Organization, this message states:
I sincerely congratulate all the monotheists of the ...

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Norwegian offshore services company Havfram has confirmed the start of construction on its first offshore wind turbine installation vessel at CIMC-Raffles in China.
The vessel is the first of up to four NG20000X design WTIVs on order at the shipyard. The vessels, equipped with a 3,250-ton crane and hybrid battery propulsion, will be capable of handling the world’s largest wind turbines ...

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A Kazakh delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade and Integration Serik Zhumangarin visited the Bandar Abbas port in early November 2022.   Mr Hosein Abbasnejad Director General of Port and Maritime Organization of Hormozgan Province expressed its readiness to prepare facilities in the Bandar Abbas port for the Kazakhstan, which would facilitate the trade and transport of ...

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The Tomsk province of Russia’s head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, accompanied by the Director General of Ports and Maritime Authority of Guilan Province, visited the infrastructure and capabilities of the Anzali port complex, referring to the development of trade exchanges and bilateral cooperation between Iran and Russia, said:” we are so interested in holding an exhibition ...

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