This is the goal of a EU-funded project called HISMAR (Hull Identification System for Marine Autonomous Robotics). European researchers and engineers are working on an automated robotic cleaning ...

The Klaipeda Port in Lithuania is welcoming the country's first-ever hydrogen-electric vessel. In addition to keeping the environment clean, this zero-emission ship will also help maintain a clean ...

Sailors aboard the San Diego-based USS Theodore Roosevelt are cleaning the ship to keep fellow sailors safe as they hope to return the ship to sea. The crew has cleaned up to 80% of the ship, as ...

California water quality regulators are close to ordering the U.S. Maritime Administration to obtain state permits and monitor for pollution when it cleans the hulls of obsolete ships from the Suisun ...

One day last week, Clean Air Engineering-Maritime Inc. pulled a barge alongside a container ship in the Port of Los Angeles. A 130-foot-tall tower with a boom attached was slowly swung out over the ...

Driven by environmental regulations, keeping a clean hull is in vogue more than ever, but the business of maintaining a clean ship hull transcends checking off a box for regulators. Clean hulls are ...

For years, campaigners have highlighted the unsustainable practices of the cruise ship industry, including the massive vessels’ dumping of sewage and wastewater, and their emissions of air pollutants ...