Yearly Archives: 2019
Maersk Spot Makes Container Shipping As Easy As Booking An Airline Ticket!
The shipping industry is stuck in the past and the challenges are many and well-known; last-minute changes in pricing; lengthy booking processes, and limited...
Digitisation To Reverse Carrier Margin Decline by Reducing Additional Costs, Says Hamburg Sud
Frank Smet, chief commercial officer at Hamburg Sud, told delegate at the keynote session of the TOC Americas Container Supply Chain conference in Cartagena that the only way to...
Drones To Monitor Container Cargo Smuggling To Enhance Port Security
An Austin-based company and the Borders, Trade and Immigration (BTI) Institute at the University of Houston are partnering to study whether the use of...
‘No Scrubber’ Policy Threatens To Affect ONE’s Profit
Ocean Network Express (ONE) could “pay the price” for not investing in scrubber technology, says an article published in the LoadStar.
Face The Sulphur Cap...
Japan’s Busiest Port Registers Declined ‘In and Out’ Freight Volumes
Freight volumes in and out of Japan’s busiest port, the Port of Tokyo, have declined in the first six months of 2019 compared to...
Sovcomflot Inks Financing and Time-charter Agreements for Arctic LNG 2 Project
SCF Group has announced that it has signed agreements for icebreaking LNG carriers, reports LNG Industry.
What is in the agreement?
SCF Group has signed an...
Singapore Plans Incentives To Achieve Reduced Carbon Emission
According to The Medi Telegraph report, Singapore is pushing the shipping industry to use cleaner fuels such as liquefied natural gas.
Introduction of incentives
The Maritime...
Scrubber Orders Swell Yet Alternative Fuels Seems Preferred
Scrubber orders till date this year have dwarfed all previous years combined, according to data on DNV GL’s online Alternative Fuels Insight (AFI) database,...
Preparing Fuel Tanks for VLSFO
Viswa Lab, in its recent technical update answers the question as how to prepare the tanks which contained high sulfur fuel so that they...
ECSA Gives Green Signal for Zero-emission Shipping Partnership
According to an article published in Safety4Sea, ECSA recently announced that it supports the European Commission's and Member States' plan to launch a joint...