Shipping has so far not benefited from the research and development that has turned biomass into one of the world's most important sources of renewable energy. Two projects involving Maersk aim to change that. With an annual fuel bill of ...
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) has called on Australian governments to show more support for the nation's manufacturing sector. The union claims governments are now buying fewer locally-made cars at a time when they ...
Tags: manufacturing, manufacturing sector, Manufacturing Workers
According to the data released by the Japan Ship Exporters' Association (JSEA), Japanese new ship export orders in February this year decreased 68.25 percent on tonnage basis compared to the previous month, to five ships totaling 167,470 ...
Tags: Japan, Ship Export, Mineral
Microsoft's support for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.8 will end in the second half of 2014, according to the software maker. Microsoft listed the sunset dates on its Web site recently, with WP8 support ending July 8, 2014, and ...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Hakata Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., of Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, have agreed to collaborate in the joint development of a 1,000 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) container carrier. On March 18 the two ...
Tags: container ship, MHI, Hakata Shipbuilding
In a shipyard in South Korea workers are building the world's largest ships - Maersk Line's 400m long Triple-E container vessels. Maersk and Discovery Channel have teamed up to bring you every stage of construction from design to maiden ...
Tags: vessels unique, container vessels, ship
Advanced Photonix Inc of Ann Arbor, MI, USA (which designs and makes APD, PIN, and FILTRODE photodetectors, HSOR high-speed optical receivers, and T-Ray terahertz instrumentation) says that it has booked a $1,562,072 order for a custom ...
Tags: Photonix, photodetectors, Missile Systems
The fundamental principle of Angelo Donghia's design was to create a complete, sophisticated, charming, glamour and above all confortable environment" With these words, the creative director od Donghia, Chuck Chewning, summarizes the ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, sofa, chair
Outdoor living room. What's new under the sun Here are the summer time, and with this, the desire to be outdoors, be it in the evening, after work or on weekends, away from traffic and noise. The garden become known, with the necessary ...
Tags: Outdoor Living Room, Furniture, chair
China should take advantage of relatively low coal prices and import more to satisfy electricity demand in its most populous provinces, instead of relying on domestic coal, which is expensive to transport, according to a Chinese government ...
Tags: domestic coal, coal prices, coal
California Giant Berry Farms has selected FoodLink to provide traceability data and smartphone friendly labels on every carton of its strawberries grown in the US. Under the deal, FoodLink will develop QR coded labels for clamshell ...
At 2:46 Monday afternoon, Japan went quiet. In memory of the lives lost two years ago in the earthquake that struck at that hour and the tsunamis that followed, a moment of silence was held across the country. From government buildings to ...
Tags: Quake, Japan, Connecting Online
Global embedded processing solutions provider Freescale Semiconductor has shipped 175 million RF power transistors in plastic packages. According to the US-based company, over-molded plastic packaging can withstand the high heat levels ...
Patents management company MPEG LA announced agreements with Google, granting the Internet giant a license to techniques that may be essential to the VP8 video codec that the Internet giant backs. VP8 is a video compression technology ...
Tags: MPEG LA, patents management, VP8 video
EU navigation safety project Accseashas demonstrated automatic resilience against GPS jamming attacks in UK waters. The trials used data from eLoran, based on one of the navigation systems used before GPS was invented, to provide back-up ...