trolling marine fouling on ships’ hulls has been considered essential since the earliest days of marine transport. It has been estimated that without any attempt to control fouling, shipping would require 40% more power, equal to about 72 million tonnes of additional fuel per year.1 Therefore, without an effective antifouling system, today’s marine transport industry would undoubtedly grind to ...

Due to an increase in demand of petroleum products which are transported by vessels or exported by pipelines, oil spill management becomes a controversial issue in coastal environment safety as well as making serious financial problems. After spilling oil in the water body, oil spreads as a thin layer on the water surface. Currents, waves and wind are the main causes of oil slick transport. The...

background during fishing and transport, preservation and quality of fish products are important as well as storage to prevent the growth of pathogenic and toxin producing bacteria. staphylococcus aureus is one of the most common causes of sea food-borne diseases worldwide due to contamination of food by preformed enterotoxins. the aim of this study was to compare the prevalence and contaminati...

Homer Smith (1930) originally outlined the special osmo-regulatory mechanisms of the marine teleosts; he postulated that these animals continually drink sea water, absorb monovalent ions in the gut and simultaneously excrete excess ions, mainly through the gills, in order to maintain a constant blood concentration lower than that of the external sea water. There have been no reported in vitro t...

Marine biofouling is of major economic concern to all marine industries. The shipping trade is particularly alert to the development of new antifouling (AF) strategies, especially green AF paint as international regulations regarding the environmental impact of the compounds actually incorporated into the formulations are becoming more and more strict. It is also recognised that vessels play an...

This paper discusses the role of Geoinformatics in Shipping and Marine Transport as a new independent, autonomous self-contained, scientific discipline created for dealing with geospatial information. Depending on the scientific background of those involved in shaping the emerging discipline, little emphasis may be placed on various aspects of Geoinformatics. Maritime appli‐ cations and small d...

Distribution and transport processes of marine particulate matter off Cape Blanc (NW-Africa): results from vertical camera profiles N. Nowald, G. Karakas, V. Ratmeyer, G. Fischer, R. Schlitzer, R. A. Davenport, and G. Wefer University of Bremen, Department of Geosciences, Klagenfurterstrasse, 28359 Bremen Alfred Wegener Institute Foundation for Polar and Marine Research, Bürgermeister-Smidt-Str...