A new CIIMAR study demonstrates that natural peptides produced by cyanobacteria are capable of replacing toxic biocides that ...

The shipping industry is constantly struggling against the accumulation of damaging bacteria, plants, and algae on wet surfaces like ship hulls. This accumulation process, called biofouling, also ...

When a ship sails through the sea, barnacles, mussels, algae, and other organisms stick to the hull of the vessel. This process is called biofouling – and it’s a big problem for the shipping industry.

German-funded project FoulLas is “green and efficient” at cleaning maritime surfaces by underwater laser. Compare and contrast: samples irradiated with the laser (R) – and not (L). The settlement of ...

A research team led by Prof. WAN Yinhua from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a dual-functional reverse osmosis (RO) membrane with enhanced ...

Grooming Robot on a small vessel at pier side as imaged by another grooming vehicle.Photo Courtesy Greensea Systems Autonomous hull grooming robot user interface. Photo Courtesy Greensea Systems Ship ...

Big problems tend to start small, and true to this maxim, one the biggest problems in global shipping starts quite small indeed, with some remarkably weak forces at the atomic level. Then, quite ...

Figure 1. The near­coastal areas of the world’s oceans have been classed into 66 large, transnational marine ecosystems, known as the large marine ecosystems (LMEs). Taken from World Ocean Review ...