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Electric Power not Fossil Fuel Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund in collaboration with E1 organized world racing championship for electric powered boats as part of its climate change initiative and reducing reliance on fossil fuels thereby decreasing hazardous environmental impact in order to protect the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s marine ecosystem . The electric powerboat
Deep Subtidal Waters The Roberts Bank Terminal 2 (project) has been approved to be developed as a marine container terminal on Canada’s West coast. Its location in deep subtidal waters is designed to minimize environmental effects. The burden will not be on the taxpayer as the port authority will finance the project. The federal government
Decommissioning a Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carrier The construction of the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) commenced in the year 2009, designed in 2013 , commissioning got delayed till 2017 and became the lead ship in the Ford class fleet of aircraft carriers in 2021. Upgradation of technology with accompanying delays escalated the production process
Uneducated Reclamation Credit The Economic Times It may be astonishing for some to know that 44 of the 48 world’s large populated coastal cities are sinking at a rapid pace than the sea level is rising. Such sinking is attributed to groundwater pumping and sediment compacted soil from heavy building and large construction projects being
Investment and Facilitation The National Investment Promotion & Facilitation Agency (NIPFA) of India was established in the year 2015 with the theme being “ Invest India “ and is the single point of contact for any investor coming to India . Gimmicks include relationship dedicated managers for any investor or group of investors who will
Qatar Signs off with Sinopec Credit Offshore Energy As a sequel to inking of QatarEnergy’s contract with Exxon Mobil Corp, TotalEnergies, Eni and ConocoPhillips for investment in its North Field East (NFE) expansion QatarEnergy is signing of with China Petrochemical Corp (Sinopec) making it the largest phase of the nearly $30 billion LNG expansion venture.
Significance of Undersea Optic Cables As low bandwidth and high latency of satellite data service was insufficient to cater to global telecommunication streams a phenomenal growth took place in digital global infrastructure comprising an intercontinental network of 400 undersea fiber-optic cable communications network which daily transmits approximately $ 10 trillion worth of financial transactions data
UNCLOS and Rights of Coastal States The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) grants special rights to the coastal states with regards to exploration and use of marine resources including energy production ,in the area in its jurisdiction at times termed as exclusive economic zone (EEZ) . Economic Control of Waters
Cocaine Smugglers Latest Modus Operandi Italy and New Zealand are perplexed by the latest modus operandi adopted by cocaine and drug smugglers on the high seas. New Zealand anti drug enforcement authorities this year shared details of an operation in which they had discovered 81 bales of cocaine successfully retrieving 3 tons of cocaine with
Women and IMO Support Credit UN News Maritime and shipping has historically been a male dominated industry . The International Maritime Organization (IMO) discovered that women represent only 1-2 % of the world’s 1.25 million seafarers and they mostly work in cruise ships. The mission of a merchant ship is to carry cargo from one
