From The Maritime Executive:
A.P. Moller-Maersk announced a three-year extension and expansion of its partnership with The Ocean Cleanup, a foundation dedicated to ridding the oceans of plastics. In addition to Maersk Supply Service providing marine offshore support, the shipping and logistics company will also provide end-to-end supply chain management services for The Ocean Cleanup’s ocean and river projects.
“As a responsible maritime operator, we are committed to ensuring that the oceans can remain a healthy environment for generations to come. We are therefore very pleased to not just prolong but broaden the partnership agreement initiated in 2018,” explains Mette Refshauge, VP, Corporate Communications & Sustainability at Maersk.
Since 2018, Maersk has provided offshore support for The Ocean Cleanup’s offshore operations. The extension of the partnership will enable the deployment of the next ocean cleanup systems as well as deployment of the foundations technology to capture plastics before they enter the oceans. As part of the partnership agreement, Maersk will also assist The Ocean Cleanup in deploying scientific sensor technology aboard Maersk’s fleet to map plastic floating in the oceans and help the organization have a better understanding of the severity of the problem they are working to solve....
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Previously:
October 2019
"Large-Scale Ocean Cleanup System Now Successfully Collecting Plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch"
January 2019
Structural Issue Forces Ocean Cleanup System to Leave Great Pacific Garbage Patch, But Return Planned for 2019
The company should not have changed the name of their contraption to the too-cutesy "Wilson" and stuck with the original "Boomy McBoomface".
December 2018
UPDATE: "Huge barrier isn't trapping plastic waste in Pacific Ocean"
Crap.
If things had gone as planned half the floating plastic in the Pacific was supposed to be removed in five years.
September 2018
Maersk-backed TheOceanCleanup Puts Its System to Final Tests
Following up on September 10's "Maersk-backed TheOceanCleanup Have Launched their Contraption to Clear the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch'".
The reason both of our headlines mention Maersk is not because we think multi-billion dollar corporations need a free plug but because the ship they contributed to the effort is such an impressive piece of equipment. It can do anything that TheOceanCleanup needs it to do....
September 2018
Maersk-backed TheOceanCleanup Have Launched their Contraption to Clear the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch'
June 2016
Dutch Deploy Boomy McBoomface
