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There is a growing interest in the fuel efficiency of ships because of fuel prices, climate change and energy security issues. 
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The largest container ship ever to unload in North America arrived at the Port of Los Angeles on Dec. 22. Four days later, an even bigger one showed up: the CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin, a ship just about as long as the Empire State Building is tall.
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Unable to overcome fierce opposition from the oil industry and resistance from some Democrats , Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders announced Wednesday that they will remove a major portion of an ambitious proposal to combat climate change.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Avery disappoint turn of events. Please note this was only to halve (not eliminate) gasoline use.
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Search teams have found the black boxes from the crashed AirAsia jet and will attempt to lift them from the floor of the Java Sea on Monday, Indonesian officials said.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
I am still amazed at the ability of subtidal search crews. In nearly any environment and region, these trackers have a stellar track record of recovering data recorders from airplane crashes. Last year's Malaysia Air not withstanding, such efforts continue to amaze
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"Ben Schmidt, assistant professor of history at Northeastern University, has visualized the routes of 19th Century ships using publicly available data set from NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). The resulting image is a hauntingly beautiful image that outlines the continents and highlights the trade winds. It shows major ports, and even makes a strong visual case for the need for the Panama and Suez Canals."
Tracey M Benson's curator insight,
March 10, 2014 4:29 PM
Beautiful data visualisation of 19th century ships using publicly available data set from NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). 
Brian Altonen's curator insight,
March 10, 2014 6:21 PM
Lessons in GIS and Medical GIS - Examples of applications. Various Resources at hand.
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80 tons of fuel oil spilled into the already dirty waters around Singapore today after the Liberia-flagged containership “Hammonia Thracium” and the Panama-flagged chemical tanker “Zoey” collided in the Singapore Strait.
Prior to the incident, Singapore’s Maritime Port Authority (MPA) Operations Control Centre notes that they had provided traffic information to the two vessels and alerted Zoey that the vessel Hammonia Thracium was crossing the traffic lane.
Hammonia Thracium reported that one of her bunker tanks sustained damage, resulting in spillage of some 80 metric tons of bunker fuel. Via AimForGood
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The California Coastal Commission on Wednesday approved the state’s first aquaculture farm to be located in federal waters about eight miles offshore of Long Beach.Known as Catalina Sea Ranch,
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Our first mariculture facility in federal waters off of the California coast. Cool beans!
While the cltivation of non-native species is normally a red flag, in this case the cat is long, long out of the bag across the entire west coast. As such, this was a non-issue.
While California has lots of good intentions with our strong environmental laws, they have in many instances acted to quash innovation and coastal-dependent industries (this is why, for example, we have no offshore alternative energy production...even though we design and create systems that get installed in Oregon, Mexico, etc.).
PIRatE Lab's curator insight,
January 11, 2014 11:30 AM
This effort offers the opoprtunity to supply shellfish to local So Cal markets with markedly reduced carbon footprints. |
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It was a terrifying scene: Last month, a massive container ship lost power in a storm shortly after leaving port in Taiwan and ran into a reef, splitting the
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Environmental disaster as tourist attraction.
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China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company (COSCO) plans to launch regular services through the Arctic Ocean to Europe | By Aiswarya
PIRatE Lab's insight:
What could go wrong with this?
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As stated in this NPR article: "The video shows satellite tracking of routes superimposed over Google Earth. It focuses on some of the main choke points for international shipping, such as the Strait of Malacca on the southern tip of Malaysia, Suez Canal, the Strait of Gibraltar and Panama Canal. It's a good reminder that about 90 percent of all the goods traded globally spend at least some of their transit time on a ship."
Tags: transportation, globalization, diffusion, industry, economic, mapping, video, visualization.
Matt Davidson's curator insight,
February 26, 2015 4:52 AM
A great visual on shipping - Geographies of Interconnections (year 9)
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ontrolling fuel consumption to reflect the vessel’s current speed and the sea conditions. As a result, the containership will burn 20 per cent less fuel per TEU in comparison to a reference 10,000 TEU containership.
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News 8 chief photojournalist Kevyn Fowler captured a road collapsing in Freeport, Maine during a storm.
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This is a guest post by the Emerging Risks Workgroup at the University of Washington in Seattle. From fracking to oil trains, the landscape of oil production and transportation in North America has... Via AimForGood
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"A floating vessel that is longer than the Empire State Building is high has taken to the water for the first time. Despite appearances, Prelude cannot strictly be described as a ship as it needs to be towed to its destination rather than travelling under its own power."
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This is a crazy and a testament to how we keep trying to move more and more material and conduct more and more operations across our world ocean.
Cam E's curator insight,
February 4, 2014 12:34 PM
I've got a weak spot for massive ships, plain and simple. I think there's even a future in ship-based cities which move around the world's oceans. Eventually ships can become so large and so advanced that the normal threats associated with the open ocean will do little to scratch them. For a comparison, the ship pictured is the Prelude FLNG, and it's almost twice the length of the Titanic. 
BrianCaldwell7's curator insight,
April 5, 2016 8:19 AM
This is a floating testament that economies of scale will continue to push the limits. Today, the largest of the massive cargo ships are simply too big to get through the Panama Canal and have to travel down around the tip of South America. This is one reason why Nicaragua is planning to construct a canal to rival Panama's (Maps 101 readers can read more about the geographic implications of Nicaragua's plans in this article co-authored by myself and Julie Dixon or you can sign up for a free trial subscription to see what Maps 101 has to offer). Tags: transportation, Nicaragua, globalization, diffusion, industry, economic. |
