Sea & Ships

Russia plans to build a metals plant in the Far East at an estimated cost of $2.2 billion and supply steel sheet to the Zvezda shipbuilding yard as part of a push to develop the Arctic, Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin said on Wednesday. The head of the oil producer said during a televised meeting with…

by Joe Brock (Reuters) – The amount of plastic waste flowing into the ocean and killing marine life could triple in the next 20 years, unless companies and governments can drastically reduce plastic production, a new study published on Thursday said. Single-use plastic consumption has increased during the coronavirus pandemic, according to the International Solid…

The Arctic Ocean is surrounded by the continents of the Circumpolar North; it is the shallowest of the World’s oceans, with an average depth of just over 1000 m and a maximum depth of about 5000 m. It has extensive shelf seas along the coastlines – particularly north of Eurasia – which play a key…

  AMERICA BLUE ECONOMY   The United States’ marine economy contributed about $373 billion to the nation’s gross domestic product in 2018 and grew faster than the nation’s economy as a whole, according to new statistics released recently by two U.S. Department of Commerce agencies.   The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) partnered with the…

The 24,000 TEU-class HMM Algeciras arrived in Rotterdam june  3rd 2020  setting a new record as the largest ship to enter a European port. The ship arrived at Rotterdam’s Amaliahaven to transfer containers at the Rotterdam world Gateway (RWG) terminal after traveling from the Chinese port of Yantian on its maiden voyage. The HMM Algeciras…

400 metres long, with a beam of 62 metres, has a 23,756-TEU (twenty-foot standard containers) capacity, making it the world’s largest container ship capable of transporting 24 containers side by side across the breadth of its hull and dusting The OOCL Hong Kong, which was the largest containership until now, with a capacity of 21,413…

Unarguably the longest river in the world, approximating 4,258 miles (6,853 kilometers) long, considered the pride of Africa. The river runs through 11 countries: Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan and Egypt.The Nile waters flow at an average volume of 300 million cubic meters (79.2…

Twenty eight(28) of Nigeria thirty six(36) states can be accessed through water, with over 250 ethnic groups it is estimated the one quarter of Nigeria population live in the coastal zone  10. CALABAR RIVER The Calabar River in Cross River State, Nigeria flows from the north past the city of Calabar, joining the larger Cross River about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) to the south.…