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Published September 18, 2023

The Marine Medium Speed Engine Oil Market refers to the market for specialized lubricants designed to meet the needs of medium-speed marine engines. These engines are commonly used in various types of ships, including container vessels, bulk carriers, tankers, and offshore support vessels. Marine medium-speed engine oils play a critical role in ensuring the efficient and reliable operation of these engines in the challenging maritime environment.

The marine medium-speed engine oil market is integral to the reliable and efficient operation of medium-speed marine engines in the shipping industry. As environmental regulations become more stringent and the demand for sustainable shipping practices grows, there is a continued need for innovative and environmentally friendly engine oil solutions. Meeting these challenges and maintaining compliance with evolving regulations will be key factors in the success of lubricant manufacturers in this market.

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Key Components of the Marine Medium Speed Engine Oil Market:

Medium-Speed Marine Engines: These engines typically operate in the range of 600 to 1000 revolutions per minute (RPM) and are known for their fuel efficiency, reliability, and versatility. They are commonly used in both propulsion and auxiliary power generation on ships.

Marine Medium Speed Engine Oils: These are specialized lubricants formulated to meet the specific requirements of medium-speed marine engines. They provide lubrication, cooling, and protection against wear and corrosion in the harsh maritime environment.

Key players in the marine medium speed engine oil market include:

Marine Medium Speed Engine Oil Market- Segmentation

Growth Drivers:

Global Shipping Industry: The global shipping industry is a primary driver of the marine medium-speed engine oil market. The demand for goods transported by sea continues to grow, leading to increased shipping activity and the need for reliable engine lubrication.

Stringent Environmental Regulations: Regulatory bodies, such as the International Maritime Organization (IMO), have introduced strict environmental regulations to reduce emissions from ships. This has led to the development of low-sulfur and low-emission engine oils to comply with these regulations.

Fuel Efficiency and Emissions Reduction: Ship operators are increasingly focused on improving fuel efficiency and reducing emissions to meet environmental goals and regulations. High-quality engine oils can contribute to achieving these objectives.

Maintenance and Reliability: The reliability and longevity of marine engines are crucial for the shipping industry. Engine oils that offer superior protection against wear and corrosion help extend engine life and reduce maintenance costs.

Technological Advancements: Ongoing research and development in lubricant technology have resulted in the formulation of more advanced and high-performance marine engine oils.

Challenges:

Environmental Concerns: The shipping industry is under pressure to reduce its environmental footprint, including emissions of sulfur oxides (SOx), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and particulate matter. Meeting these requirements with the right engine oils can be challenging.

Regulatory Compliance: Compliance with evolving international and regional regulations regarding emissions, exhaust gas cleaning systems (scrubbers), and fuel quality is a complex task for both ship operators and lubricant manufacturers.

Market Competition: The marine lubricants market is highly competitive, with numerous manufacturers vying for market share. This competition can lead to price pressures.

Supply Chain Complexity: Marine engine oil supply chains can be complex due to the global nature of the shipping industry. Ensuring a consistent supply of high-quality engine oils across different regions is a logistical challenge.

Technology Compatibility: As ship engines evolve and become more technologically advanced, ensuring that engine oils are compatible with the latest engine designs and materials is essential.

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Marine Medium Speed Engine Oil Market: Navigating the High Seas ... - Digital Journal

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Given the resource scramble for our oceans and the use of increasingly sophisticated technology for exploration, mining and fishing on an industrial scale, we urgently need transformative ocean governance because business-as-usual is destroying our oceans. The first step is to establish a set of principles towards achieving this transformation.

Since January 2020, a group of 21 senior researchers from around the world and across ecological, social, economic, industry and legal disciplines, have developed a set of 13 principles for transformative ocean governance and action. They focus on the reform required for ocean-use practices and address a combination of the UNs sustainable development goals (SDGs).

Led by Nelson Mandela Universitys Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, the Principles for transformative ocean governance, was published on 7 September in Nature Sustainability. The authors have a total of 440 years of experience gained from working in and influencing the ocean governance realm in over 30 countries.

While there are a lot of rules about sustainable governance on land, there are fewer for oceans, especially areas beyond national jurisdiction. Oceans are difficult to govern because they are dynamic and without borders, hence they require international cooperation and collaboration.

To date, governments, industry and organisations have failed to offer equal access for all humans to the ocean environment and have failed to halt the decline in ocean health and ecosystem service delivery. Ecosystem services, such as oxygen production, sustain life on Earth and half of the Earths oxygen is generated by tiny plants in the ocean called phytoplankton.

In South Africa, we have rules for catching certain species, and organisations such as the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) sets rules for the hake fishery and compliance is required in order to sell to Europe. But this is just one species and many species lack rules. Many other species are also caught as by-catch.

The large fishing companies and the oil and gas industries have the technology to provide researchers with data such as camera footage from the oceans so that we can work together to achieve a sustainable marine environment, but so far there isnt much willingness to do this.

Researchers rely on grants and donor funding and there arent sufficient funds to pursue the work we would like to do to better understand the ocean. Even our exclusive economic zones are not well understood and the high seas beyond are even more unknown; its the wild west out there with few rules.

To address these issues, we invited a group of researchers from around the world to a conference hosted by Nelson Mandela University in January 2020. The goal was to engage with the latest developments impacting ocean governance from a developmental, ecosystem-based and human-rights-based approach.

At the conference it was agreed to develop a set of ocean governance principles that work to establish a balance between the economic, conservation, social and cultural requirements of the wide range of role-players in the ocean environment. Our aim is to offer guidelines for countries and hopefully help to inform policy and enforceable regulations.

Its taken three-and-a-half years to develop the 13 principles because we are a very diverse, transdisciplinary group, representing a wide range of needs, including legal frameworks, international and domestic politics of ocean governance, developmental approaches including inclusive and equitable development, the blue economy and SDG 14 (Life Below Water), and ecosystem-based and human rights-based approaches, including marine planning, ocean health, social justice and the role of civil society in governance.

The 13 principles, which are elaborated on in the article, span the following areas:

Its not easy to govern the ocean and apportion fair access to all the competing groups. And at the same time to respect non-measurable cultural needs, such as indigenous communities whose ancestors live in the ocean and who call for it to be respected and conserved because this is their spiritual home. Exemplary work has been done in Canada to include Indigenous ocean knowledge and the needs of the First Nations.

To illustrate the transformative principles of ocean governance in action we drew on our work done to date in Algoa Bay. Since 2017 a group of us have been working on Algoa Bays Marine Spatial Plan (MSP), which is the first in South Africa, and will be released early in 2024. The plan has been developed by the Institute for Coastal and Marine Research and the SARChI Chair in Marine Spatial planning at Nelson Mandela University, as well as the Chair of Marine Natural Products at Rhodes University, with a number of collaborators, and with funding from the South African National Research Foundation/ Department of Science and Innovation.

In 2019, the Algoa Bay project joined the One Ocean Hub (OOH), an international programme of fair research partnerships for sustainable development among the Global North-South, funded by UK Official Development Assistance. The aim is a healthy ocean for all.

Together, the Algoa Bay and OOH projects have brought together researchers from the biophysical sciences (including deep-sea and fisheries science), the social sciences (including anthropology and the arts), and ecological and resource economics and law (national and international law on environment, human rights and the sea), with the joint aim of helping to inform stakeholders and governments on what transformative ocean governance entails and what can be achieved through it.

It requires considerable consultation, including talking to industry, government, lawyers, biologists, small-scale fishers, ocean-dwelling communities and holders of Indigenous knowledge. It also requires investigating the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process used by industries such as oil and gas and marine minerals.

The EIA process that gets approved is often wholly insufficient. Exploration goes ahead in most cases, with some exceptions where multinationals are taken to court such as the contesting of seismic blasting along the Wild Coast in the search for oil and gas.

Industry has the power and money, and characteristically uses economics and job creation in their bid for a large slice of the ocean. Its very difficult pushing back against big industry and governments or any sector that gains the most benefit from the ocean but we have to reach a point of collaboration. We are hoping the ocean governance policies and MSPs will assist in putting pressure on industry and governments to work with other sectors and collaboratively come up with win-win solutions for ocean sustainability.

Many developing nations are working on their MSPs now and they regularly contact us for help. One of our teams is working with Madagascar; we work a lot with Western Indian Ocean countries from South Africa all the way up the east coast of Africa.

We are well into the UN Ocean Decade and the 2030 drive to protect the oceans, which cannot be a box-ticking exercise. We have to move beyond the blue team wanting to conserve the oceans and industry hitting back that they dont like what we are presenting. Its a constant fight instead of working as one team. The ocean environment is screaming for collaboration and hopefully this can be achieved.

Professor Amanda Lombard holds the SARChI Chair in Marine Spatial Planning at Nelson Mandela University and is lead author of a seminal article Principles for transformative ocean governance, published on 7 September in the leading international journal, Nature Sustainability.

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Nasim al Bahar naval exercises between Pakistan and the Royal Saudi navies are three decades old now and performed every two years, alternating between the two countries. The latest exercise in this series concluded in the Kingdom city of Al Jubail this month. This three-day bilateral exercise was divided in two parts, on shore activities and sea exercises involving ships and aircraft. Bilateral defense co-operation is however, not confined to the navies alone. In fact a couple of weeks ago a joint anti-terrorism army exercise was conducted in the army special forces center at Cherat.

The bulk of the earth is covered by the oceans. For Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, territorial waters are important as they are the cheapest and most practical channels for commercial activities. While Saudi Arabia exports its oil overseas through tankers, Pakistan gets its oil and gas through its ports. The safe and smooth transport of energy resources is not only important for the Kingdom and Pakistan, but indeed the entire world. Therefore, ever vigilant navies, jointly working to secure international waters, are a global necessity.

Threats at sea are broadly divided into two categories; traditional and non- traditional. Traditional threats originate from the states perceived as antagonistic. It is necessary to correctly assess enemy capabilities and plans. Preparations to defend territorial waters and ports can be sound only if the threat perception is correct.

Nasim al Bahar has not only contributed to bilateral security but also enhanced regional peace and future prosperity.

- Javed Hafeez

Earlier this year, Pakistan hosted a multi-national naval exercise called Aman 2023. It was attended by 50 naval contingents from around the globe, including Saudi Arabia. It amply depicted that both the Kingdom and Pakistan accord high importance to securing not only their own territorial waters but the high seas as well. Global prosperity and resultant economic activity is beneficial to all nations. And of the three forces, naval international co-operation is more in vogue now. Combined Task Forces (CTF) 150 , 151 and 152 , stationed in the Gulf are proof of that.

Non-traditional threats on the high seas have also proliferated in recent years. These include piracy, human, drug and arms smuggling. Nations have to guard against illegal fishing in their territorial waters. Similarly, vigilance is essential against nuclear waste dumping. Ecosystems in the oceans and seas have to be safeguarded. All these aspects are regularly discussed at Pak-Saudi naval exercises.

Pakistan Navy ships Saif, Dehshat, Himmat and Muhafiz sailed to Al Jubail especially for these exercises. Marines from both sides also participated. Helicopters for rescue operations were provided by the Royal Saudi Air Force. Seminars and workshops were held to discuss and hone tactical procedures. Special co-ordination meetings were held to discuss and decide the details of the exercise. As soon as the harbor phase endes, sailors and marines are readying themselves for sea activities.

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have long coastlines and important ports. The Kingdom has the port of Dammam on the Gulf and Jeddah on the Red Sea, apart from five other major ports. Pakistan has major ports of Karachi, Bin Qasim and Gwadar on a 700 km long coastline. Foolproof security around these ports and in their territorial waters is essential for the two countries. Their bilateral naval cooperation is also built around this imperative and, therefore, assumes strategic dimension.

The main aim of such exercises is to enhance the interoperability of two forces not using identical ships, arms and equipment. They also afford an opportunity to test new arms and equipment in a real time war situation. Seminars and workshops are good occasions not only to learn much needed technical skills but also share their experiences about the tackling of traditional and non- traditional threats and challenges. Over and above, the soldiers develop mutual bonhomie. And increasing cooperation between two navies further cements the already brotherly ties.

This is eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Both countries have faced threats of various kinds in their territorial waters and beyond. The sea lanes in our region will assume great importance as trade between China, GCC and Africa picks up via the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). The Pakistani port of Gwadar will play a pivotal role in that scenario. Regional ports will become busier hubs of economic and commercial activity.

Only a secure and stable polity can achieve economic prosperity. And general prosperity is the best anecdote to extremism. Nasim al Bahar 14 has also been called Daraa al Bahar which means shield of the sea. It is necessary to enhance naval defense in order to keep security threats away from the land. Security and prosperity have a symbiotic relationship. Nasim al Bahar has not only contributed to bilateral security but also enhanced regional peace and future prosperity.

-Javed Hafeez is a former Pakistani diplomat with much experience of the Middle East. He writes weekly columns in Pakistani and Gulf newspapers and appears regularly on satellite TV channels as a defense and political analyst. Twitter: @JavedHafiz8

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Chinas naval pressure campaign against rival nations in the South China Sea has reached unprecedented heights since yearly short-term moratoriums on fishing were lifted, with Chinese ships shadowing Western warships in the region and seeking to interrupt maritime resupply on a submerged, Philippine-claimed island.

Chinas naval pressure campaign against rival nations in the South China Sea has reached unprecedented heights since yearly short-term moratoriums on fishing were lifted, with Chinese ships shadowing Western warships in the region and seeking to interrupt maritime resupply on a submerged, Philippine-claimed island.

The Peoples Liberation Army Navys ongoing blockade of the Second Thomas Shoal, a submerged reef thats part of the Spratly Island chain in the West Philippine Sea, has become a rallying point for Southeast Asian countries concerned about Chinas harassment of smaller nations on the high seas. In early August, the Philippines accused Chinese vessels of firing water cannons at its Coast Guard ships as they attempted to resupply the reef.

It was a major display of force by China, including six large Coast Guard ships and four naval vessels. It looked to be a calculated show of force by China, said Ray Powell, the director of SeaLight, a Stanford University project focused on Chinas maritime gray zone activities. It looked like China was trying to send the Philippines a message that playtime is over. Were bringing in the big guns.

China basically claims almost all of the South China Sea, asserting indisputable sovereignty over the Spratly Islands, the Paracel Islands, and the Scarborough Shoal via a so-called nine-dash line ringing the sea. While those claims are disputed by almost every other country in the region, including Taiwan, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam, China has spent more than a decade creating facts on the ground by artificially enhancing atolls and reefs, turning them into airfields and ports.

The crisis, which has been ongoing since Chinese authorities lifted their annual fishing moratorium in mid-August, has seen Peoples Liberation Army-backed maritime militia forces actively blocking Philippine Coast Guard resupply vessels from landing on the shoal, where the Philippines periodically needs to resupply the BRP Sierra Madre, a World War II-era U.S.-made tank landing ship. Manila ran the Sierra Madre aground on top of the submerged reef in 1999 to help support its legal claim to it.

Its not the first recent maritime flare-up between Chinese and Philippine sailors. Even during the administration of the mercurial former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who sought to strengthen relations with Beijing and threatened to boot a rotating presence of U.S. troops from the archipelago, Manila filed a formal diplomatic protest in 2021, when more than 200 Chinese fishing boats laid anchor at the disputed Whitsun Reef in the Spratly chain. The Philippines also sought arbitration at the Hague over the territorial dispute with China in the sea in 2016.

But with new Philippine President Bongbong Marcos in power and taking a more hawkish tack toward China, the tensions have kicked up another notch. Through the summer, China repositioned large portions of its maritime militia forces to operate out of Mischief Reef, according to Powell. Mischief, an atoll in the South China Sea that has been developed by Beijing and armed with anti-aircraft missiles, isabout 25 miles from Second Thomas Shoal.

China also buttressed those militias with more forces near Sabina Shoal, another disputed shoal, and Thitu Island, the second-largest of the Spratlys. And its not just shadowing and water cannons; China has also fired blinding lasers to daze Philippine vessels at least twice this year.

And Manila has dusted off Vietnams playbook from 2014, when Chinese vessels harassed Hanois navy over an oil rig dispute in the South China Sea, by naming and shaming China directly. When it comes to international relations, anything that you publicize that has a reputational cost for China, hits a nerve with the Chinese, Philippine Coast Guard spokesman Commodore Jay Tarriela told Bloomberg in August.

The push against Second Thomas Shoal is also a sign to experts that Chinas navy can more effectively sustain itself at sea from disputed islands in the South China Sea. And just as Chinas air force has used constant incursions into Taiwans air defense identification zone as a tactic to burn out Taipeis pilots, it is using the pressure campaign at sea to exhaust Philippine forces.

They couldnt really flex their muscles against the Filipinos, the Malaysians, [and] the Indonesians until after they built up the islands in the South China Sea, and thats really why they did that, said Brent Sadler, a senior research fellow for naval warfare and advanced technology at the Heritage Foundation and a former U.S. naval attach in Malaysia. Now they can keep those cutters and those patrol boats and fishing boats out there a lot more frequently [and] actually start to wear down the Malaysian and Filipinos just because they can keep a constant presence where the other guys dont have as many platforms.

And the more that China uses Coast Guard and maritime militia forces to harass the Philippine and other regional navies, the more routine Chinas aggressive posture becomes. The Chinese just keep coming at them and messing with them, Sadler said. It becomes like a new normal. Chinese military strategists believe that under the constant pressure, the United States would go away rather than continue to contest its maritime control.

Even with the Philippines adamant that it will continue to resupply the sunken reef despite Chinese harassment, experts are worried that the Biden administration needs a longer-term solution to the recurring crisis, which has bedeviled the last three U.S. administrations.

The Philippines and the U.S. are going to have to come up with a solution for Second Thomas Shoal, said Powell. Because otherwise, time and the elements will solve it for them, and at that point, China will just own the shoal.

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After years of working on Kinect Games and the Viva Pinata series, no one really knew what to expect from Rare. It seemed like the studio was very far from its glory days, which the release of the nostalgia-filled Rare Replay only further cemented. However, things quickly changed with the surprise announcement of Sea of Thieves, and the studio has not really looked back since.

While it is not a perfect game, Sea of Thieves has seemingly kicked off a new era for this iconic studio. It not only felt like an extremely unique multiplayer experience, but it also served as one of the earliest selling points for Xbox Game Pass. Rare has since focused much of its resources on expanding this title and whisking players away on brand-new journeys across the high seas. It is impressive just how far the game has come, yet that will likely not last forever. While Sea of Thieves will not close tomorrow, there will come a time when players must take one final voyage across its oceans.

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Upon release, Sea of Thieves was a bit lackluster. While the visuals and ship combat were fun, the rest of the game felt rather bland. There was no real form of progression, the gameplay felt like a series of rinse-and-repeat scenarios, and there was not much to do within its massive world. It may have been a unique experience, but that uniqueness could only take the game so far. Instead of abandoning the project, Rare committed to improving upon it.

Since release, Sea of Thieves has gotten countless updates that have expanded the game in new ways. New collectibles are frequently added along with new factions, new mission types, new time-limited events, and various other goodies. Originally, the studio was releasing massive new updates every single month, which gave players a reason to keep logging back in for more. In 2020, the studio shifted to a seasonal model with new content every three months, and that seems to have mostly paid off.

Sea of Thieves has gone through a ton of changes since release, making it feel like a vastly different game. It has even featured crossover stories from Pirates of the Caribbean and Lucasfilm Games' Monkey Island series, along with cosmetics from all sorts of different Microsoft franchises. All of this has helped create one of the best pirate games around, which has built an audience of over 30 million players as of June 2022. It seems like there is no stopping this multiplayer game as the studio has plans for the next five years, but no live-service game can last forever.

While Sea of Thieves' last days are likely a ways away, there will come a time when the game must close its doors. Already, Rare has had to cut off support for the PvP Arena mode because players were just not playing it. The game has also been going on for five years now, so naturally players will end up finding new games to play. On top of that, the game's 10th season had to be delayed, some players have become aggravated by cheaters, the newer content has not been engaging enough, and there is still no interesting form of progression outside of cosmetics.

Sea of Thieves is still going strong, and it likely will be for years to come. But if the playerbase gets bored with its content, then it will no longer buy its microtransactions. If there is no income stream, then Rare will not be able to keep updating the game with new content. With no new content, players will likely fall off in droves with only the diehard ones sticking around. Even if it does not seem like it, every online game has its expiration date, and Sea of Thieves' day may come sooner than some players realize.

Sea of Thieves is available now on PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

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