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PuriFire Energy could supply up to 15,000 mt/year of bio-methanol. Image Credit: X-Press Feeders Singapore-based container shipping firmX-Press Feedershas signed a letter of intent with methanol firmPuriFire Energyto explore the supply of bio-methanol for the shipping sector. Under the agreement, PuriFire could supply between10,000 mtand15,000 mt/yearof bio-methanol from its planned production facilities, it said in aLinkedInpost onThursday. The companies also plan to jointly explore developing port-based bio-methanol production sites across theUKandEurope. X-Press Feeders has been operating methanol-fuelled container ships, with the first ship delivered in 2024 and several more on order. Ship & Bunkerreported inOctober 2024that the company plans to transition part of its fleet to synthetic methanol over the next five years. "By combining X-Press Feeders’ fleet-scale demand with PuriFire’s decentralised production model, the collaboration aims to create a vertically integrated fuel supply chain that can be replicated across key port locations," PuriFire said in the post. Ship & Bunker News TeamTo contact the editor responsible for this story email us at[email protected]

BRINDISI - Il ruolo di Tobia Parisi nella Sacra Corona Unita e il suo apporto alla redazione dello “statuto di Voghera”, la nuova “comparanza” tra sacristi brindisini e leccesi, ideata nel carcere della città lombarda e probabilmente rimasta solo sulla carta. Nell'udienza di ieri, giovedì 7 maggio 2026, i collaboratori di giustizia Tommaso Montedoro ed Emanuele Guarini sono stati esaminati dalla pm Carmen Ruggiero e dall'avvocato Giancarlo Camassa (difensore dell'imputato). Davanti al tribunale di Brindisi in composizione collegiale (presidente Stefania De Angelis; a latere: giudici Anna Guidone e Adriano Zullo) è in corso il processo a carico del 45enne mesagnese. Parisi deve rispondere di un tentativo estorsivo ai danni di un imprenditore. Nell'ottobre 2025 cinque imputati sono stati condannati complessivamente a 58 anni di reclusione in abbreviato, per la medesima accusa. Si attende la fissazione dell'udienza d'appello. Intanto va avanti il procedimento, con rito ordinario, a carico di Parisi. Quello che hanno raccontato ieri i “pentiti” non è una novità, ma serve per inquadrare la figura del 45enne. Montedoro (assistito dall'avvocato Sergio Luceri) è di Casarano. “Attivo” in questo mondo - cioè: la Scu - dalla seconda metà degli anni Novanta, ha conosciuto Parisi in carcere. Ha parlato dello “statuto di Voghera”, la cui redazione (a cui Parisi avrebbe partecipato materialmente) risale al biennio 2017-2018. Una sorta di risposta alle nuove leve che scalpitavano, ma anche un tentativo di riorganizzare la Scu. Di fatto, i clan leccesi e brindisini sono “divisi” dai primi anni Novanta. Parisi, nelle parole di Montedoro, è una “persona intelligente”, che aveva dubbi sull'efficacia dell'accordo: “Dottoressa, chi sta fuori usa i nostri nomi, ma fa gli affari senza dar conto a chi sta in carcere”. Alla base dello statuto c'era la scarcerazione, all'epoca imminente, di Giovanni Donatiello (non coinvolto nel presente processo). Sì, ma oltre a rituali e nuove formule, che c'era scritto sopra? Alla domanda dell'avvocato Camassa, Montedoro non ha saputo rispondere: “Avvocato, il contenuto non lo ricordo a oggi, non mi interessava”. Poi, sempre in video collegamento, è stato il turno di Emanuele Guarini (assistito dall'avvocato Giancarlo Raco). Il “pentito” originario di Mesagne ha inquadrato Parisi all'interno della frangia cosiddetta dei “mesagnesi”: sarebbe riconducibile a Daniele Vicientino. “Ero affiliato a Eugenio Carbone (clan di Antonio Vitale, ndr). Dopo la morte di Carbone (nel 2000, ndr), sono stato affiliato a Santino Tenore. Conosco Tobia fin da piccolo. So che era affiliato di Vicientino. Come lo sapevo? Mesagne è piccola, gli affiliati si sapevano tutti. Lui si occupava di droga ed estorsioni. Con lui non ho commesso affari illeciti, coi suoi ragazzi sì”. La prossima udienza è fissata per il 14 maggio. Sarà ascoltato il collaboratore di giustizia Andrea Romano. Rimani aggiornato sulle notizie dalla tua provincia iscrivendoti al nostro canale whatsapp: clicca qui Seguici gratuitamente anche sul canale Facebook: https://m.me/j/Abampv2kioahdYYR/

In theStrait of Gibraltar– a famousmarine roadconnecting the Mediterranean and the Atlantic – lives a critically endangered sub-population of a few hundred long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas). Despite their name, these dark and blubbery marine mammals aren’t technically whales – they’re large oceanic dolphins which are believed to have anavigator or leadfor each pod. Hence the “pilot” part of their name. There are two types of pilot whales – short and long-finned. They’re generally found in deep offshore waters but can appear in coastal areas. And like other dolphins, they use high frequency sounds to talk to each other in their pods. These clicks and squeaks travel shorter distances compared with themelodic songs of humpback whales. And as a newpaperled by Milou Hegeman from Aarhus University in Denmark and published in the Journal of Experimental Biology shows, the pilot whales that live in the Strait of Gibraltar are having to shout at the upper limit of their range in order to hear each other over human noises. The ocean is full of sounds. Some of these are natural, such as thesounds from fish,sealsand waves. Other sounds are produced by human activities, either deliberately (for exampleseismicandsonarexploration) or unintentionally (for example, the sound of movingshipsor other vessels). The ocean continues to getnoisierbecause of human-made sound – even in isolatedArctic regions. And because of its strategic location, the Strait of Gibraltar is especially noisy with the drone of cargo ships. To investigate the communication and behaviour of the population of pilot whales in the Strait of Gibraltar, scientists used 6-metre poles to attach small tags to the creatures (kind of like an Airtag used to track your suitcase) with sterile suction cups positioned between the dorsal fin and blowhole. Between 2012 to 2015, the steam attached tags to 23 different long-finned pilot whales who live in the region year-round. These tags remained on pilot whales for up to 24 hours collecting sounds and tracking individual behaviour. The tags then floated to the surface where scientists could locate them using an antenna and collect the data from their diving activities. More than 84 hours of recordings were made, with 1,432 pilot whale calls extracted. The tags also recorded ship noise in the area. The researchers found there was a scarcity of pilot whale calls during periods of shipping noise. And the volume of the calls they did make were louder by about half the increase in background noise. This means the animals are adapting to communicate in times when it is noisy – kind of like having a conversation in a crowded place and you having to raise your voice to be heard. This study focuses on just one location in the ocean. But there’sincreasing evidencethat human-made noise is also impacting other species in other places. For example, a 2012studyfound that ship noise increases stress in right whales. Anotherstudyfrom 2024 found sea turtles travelling in the Galapagos were more vigilant because of increased ship noise. But it’s not just ship noise that is impacting the animals that live in the ocean. Sonardisrupts whale diving behaviourand feeding behaviour, sometimes even potentially resulting instrandings. Thankfully, work is being done to reduce noise pollution in the ocean – frombuilding quieter shipstorerouting ship activity, helping ship operatorsdrive more quietlyand dialling down thenoise from all human activities. This new study is just one of many scientific contributions to learning more about our impact on our blue backyard. We can only protect what we know. And as we celebrate the100th birthday of Sir David Attenborough, it’s worth remembering one of his many pieces ofwisdom: “If we save the sea, we save our world”. Part of this involves being more aware of sound in our sea. Because sometimes, it’s not always the visible impacts such as plastic pollution that need our attention. It might also be the impacts we can only hear.