Maritime Transportation And Shipping Talk

If we are to study this subject I think we should at least get the name right. The correct name is “Green Award”. It is a voluntary quality program for ship-owners, managers and their ships.
In the last article we covered some of the history and laid the base for our articles and study. The next [...]

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First, some history to bring us up to were we are today.
What does the Green Ship term mean? In International shipping “Green Ship” is mainly associated with the Green Ship Award Program. There is also something that is called Green Ship Initiative established in North America and some others but that is a whole other [...]

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The Container, the use of it and it’s place in Maritime Transportation has been going through a process of change over the last few years that could not have been foreseen back in the 50’s when the pioneers like Malcolm McLean, the founder of Sea-Land started the adventure of carrying full truck chassis onboard ships. [...]

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