Yearly Archives: 2020
Golden Union Buys Newcastlemax at Attractive Price
Over the weekend one of the more modern newcastlemaxes to be marketed founded new owners.
Its full steam ahead for cape owners, battling...
France Bans Freights from UK, After New Strains
France decides to block lorries arriving from the UK for 48 hours in response to the emergence of a new strain of Covid-19.
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Ships Race To Reposition Containers Globally
Ninety-five percent of coffee imports in the US and Europe arrive in containers.
The containers are unloaded and returned to port with outbound...
IMO To Consider Example of Bunker License
An IMO correspondence group has been set up to “review and amend, as appropriate, the indicative example of a license for fuel oil...
Lack of Proper Safety Procedures Leads To Barge Explosion
The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a marine accident report detailing the investigation of explosion of barge IB1940.
The Incident
About 0930 on November 4,...
NYK Expands IoS-OP Linked Fleet To 200 Vessels
Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) and Ship Data Center Co., Ltd. (ShipDC) have agreed to use the latter’s IoS-OP to share data received from...
Panamax & Handysize Market Remain Positive With Holidays Kicking In
Baltic Exchange has released a report about the dry bulk market for the 51st week of shipping activities of this year. The report dated...
How Yachts are Dispatched To Warmer Destinations?
An article published in Block Island Times showed difficulties faced by yacht transport services through real examples.
Newport Harbor has always been a place where...
Autonomous Ships – Future Of The Maritime Industry
If we go by its own forecasts the future of the maritime sector could include a hundred-and-fifty-tonne vessels which will cross the oceans without...
Matson’s Takes Delivery of Matsonia
A leading U.S. carrier in the Pacific, today took delivery of Matsonia, the second of two new Kanaloa Class combination container ships built for...