Tanker

Image Source : BLINKIT Blinkit Unacademy, an edtech company's CEO Gaurav Munjal suggested that the quick-commerce platform Blinkit must start an on-demand, under 10-minute water tanker service for Bengaluru (earlier known as Bangalore), which is facing an acute water shortage already ahead of the summer season. The groundwater in the city has been depleted by…

Japanese company PowerX is moving ahead with its strange plan to build a "mobile power station" in the form of a 140-meter (460-ft) electric "battery tanker," which will carry 241 megawatt-hours of renewable energy across the sea over short distances.The idea here is simple enough: renewable energy is often generated a fair distance from where it's most needed, so let's build an electric ship full of batteries, and jolly well ship it there. Why not just put down an underwater cable? That's a fine question. PowerX points…

As the world moves toward a sustainable future, some regions have an abundance of renewable energy, while others are at a geographical disadvantage. Japan-based startup PowerX has a solution with the world’s first electric battery tanker, “X,” designed to transport clean energy by sea. What does PowerX do? PowerX is a battery startup company on a mission to change how the world uses and transfers clean energy. While most of the world’s energy today is transferred in the form of fossil…

In another milestone on the road to fully Autonomous Formation Flight and Autonomous Air-to-Air Refueling (A4R), Airbus Defence and Space has autonomously guided and controlled a drone using an A310 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) flying testbed.Air-to-air refueling is one of the key technologies that provide air forces with a global reach and the ability to extend mission duration indefinitely. However, being able to transfer fuel from one aircraft to a very different aircraft with very different flight performance is…

More than a dozen massive oil tankers were stuck near the exit to the Black Sea, the first noticeable disruption to global energy markets after the West imposed a price cap on Russian crude. The bottleneck in the Turkish Straits, a chokepoint in global shipping, stemmed from a dispute between a group of maritime insurers and Turkish authorities. It illustrates the potential snags caused by novel sanctions that came into effect this week, even though the sanctions were designed to keep Russian oil…

Shipping companies have snapped up dozens of secondhand oil tankers this year, paying record prices for ice-class ships that can navigate frozen seas around Russia’s Baltic ports in winter.A driving force behind the purchases, say people familiar with the deals: To get Russian oil to market after the harshest sanctions to date strike Russia’s energy industry next week. The frenzy in a quiet corner of the shipping market is splitting the tanker industry in two. One part deals with Western oil companies, banks and insurers.…

HD Hyundai has announced that the Prism Courage, a 122,000 tonne ultra-large natural gas tanker operated by its subsidiary Avikus, has become the first large ship to make an ocean passage of over 10,000 km (6,210 miles) under autonomous control.A ship that is capable of sailing itself isn't new. Even the smallest vessel can be equipped with an automatic pilot and it isn't uncommon to come across stories of freighters steaming into harbor without a soul aboard after being prematurely abandoned by their crews. In fact, even…

Sovcomflot has sold about a dozen ships to buyers in Asia and the Middle East, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Russian state-controlled company works to repay loans to Western banks ending business ties to comply with sanctions. The company, among the world’s largest tanker operators, sold five tankers to Dubai-based Koban Shipping and four natural-gas carriers to Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping, the people said. Eastern…