By Yuka Obayashi and Aaron Sheldrick TOKYO, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Japan's Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd said on Friday it would spend about 1 billion yen ($9.42 million) on measures to help Mauritius, including the clean-up of the island's mangrove forests and contribution to an environmental recovery fund. A bulk carrier owned by Japan's Nagashiki Shipping and chartered by Mitsui OSK … [Read more...]
Mauritius Oil Clean-up Turns Focus From Ship To Shore
by Yuka Obayashi (Reuters) - A Japanese disaster relief team helping to clean up a devastating oil spill off the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius is focusing on mangroves, beaches and wetlands after most of the oil at sea had been collected, it said on Tuesday. The Japanese bulk carrier M/V Wakashio struck a coral reef on July 25, spilling about 1,000 tonnes of fuel … [Read more...]
Wakashio Breaks Apart With 166 Tons Of Fuel Oil Still Aboard
by Omar Mohammed (Reuters) - A Japanese bulk carrier that ran aground on a reef in Mauritius last month threatening a marine ecological disaster around the Indian Ocean island has broken apart, authorities said on Saturday. The condition of the MV Wakashio was worsening early on Saturday and it split by the afternoon, the Mauritius National Crisis Committee said. “At … [Read more...]
Uniper Intensifies LNG Plans with Japan’s Mitsui OSK for FSRU in Germany
FRANKFURT, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Energy group Uniper on Monday entered agreements with Japanese shipping group Mitsui OSK Lines to handle potential deliveries of liquefied natural (LNG) gas into Germany. Discussions about LNG have flared up recently as the German government wants to diversify away from pipeline gas arriving from Russia, Norway and the Netherlands. Suppliers, … [Read more...]
MOL Tests AI Watch Keeping System on Ferry in Seto Inland Sea
Japanese shipping group MOL has tested an artificial intelligence (A.I.) system aimed at improving safe watch keeping on board a ferry operating in one of Japan's busiest waterways. The test of the so-called Intelligence Awareness System was conducted in collaboration with Rolls-Royce Marine using the Sunflower car and passenger ferry. The ferry, which is operated by Ferry … [Read more...]