Western Low Sulfur Arbitrage Volumes Could Near 3mil mt In April

  April arrival volume was more or less steady, or a touch higher, than around 2.8 million mt or so of product that is expected...

Tanker Fuels That Are The Best For Profits And Safe For...

Alternative ship fuels and fuel technologies are already available and new ones are emerging. These create pathways for newbuilds to comply with the International...

A Look Inside The Flourishing Shipbuilding Industry

In ocean shipping, present success often breeds future failure. Across the decades, freight-rate spikes have spurred newbuilding sprees, wiping out freight rates. Which brings...

Will New $2 Billion Icebreaker Fit Under Bridge?

Officials are "confident" Australia's new $2 billion icebreaker will fit under a Tasmanian bridge it needs to pass in order to refuel. The...

Giant Capesize Ships To Ship Timber and Grain

Shipments of timber and grain are being loaded onto a class of ship normally reserved for other cargo. This may be attributed to...

COVD-19 May Lead To Hearing Problems in Patients, Study Finds

A new study suggests a surprising number of coronavirus patients are suffering from issues with their hearing, reports Sky News. Study: tinnitus, hearing loss and...

[FAQ] Understanding the Notion of Delivery Duty Unpaid in Shipping

  In international commercial transactions, the terms Delivery Duty Paid (DDP) and Delivery Duty Unpaid (DDU) are used to indicate two different types of sales...

Hydrogen Fuel at LPG Stations To Nurture Hydrogen Ecosystem

The South Korean government will back infrastructure on hydrogen fuel supplying facilities and add hydrogen fuel at gas stations across the nation amid its...

Zim Recorded A Net Income of $524m

Israeli ocean carrier Zim has posted its first annual profit for three years – and the biggest in its 75-year history – recording a...

A New Breed of Smart Ship Systems With Simulation Capability &...

As researchers deepen their understanding of autonomous and remote vessel operations, a new breed of smart ship systems combining simulation capability and artificial intelligence...

Spot Rate for North Europe Down from More Than $8,000

Container spot rates from Asia may have eased slightly from their record highs, post-Chinese new year, but rates for backhaul and secondary trades continue...

Evergreen Plans To Spend Up To $2.6bn On 20 Boxships

Taiwanese liner Evergreen has announced that it will order twenty 15,000 teu containerships as part of a major fleet expansion plan, says an article...

Rapid COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Backfires in Some US States

According to an article published in AP News, despite the clamor to speed up the U.S. vaccination drive against COVID-19 and get the country...

Hyundai Heavy Discloses New CO2 Shipping Solutions

According to an article published in BM Global, South Korea’s largest shipbuilding group, Hyundai, is pushing ahead with carbon dioxide shipping solutions. New CO2 Carrier...

Coronavirus Origin? Five Mysteries That Remain

According to a recently published article on Nature, with the WHO team investigating the origins of Covid-19, there are still few key questions unanswered...

Qatar Petroleum Contracts With Sinopec For LNG Supply

According to an article published in AA Energy, Qatar Petroleum has inked a 10-year LNG Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) with China Petroleum &...

New Data Shows Severe COVID-19 In Older Adults Reduce By Vaccinations

New data show both Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines significantly reduce severe COVID-19 in older adults, says an article published in Gov.uk. PHE's Real-world Study On March...

Covid19 Crew Change Crisis Still On Run, Apprises IMO Secretary General

According to an article published in IMO, the crew change crisis caused by COVID-19 restrictions continues to cause challenges, despite some improvement in the...

[Podcast] Covid-19 Emergency Temporary Standards – Part 1

Cal/OSHA's COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards, Part 1 definitions and requirements podcast was posted by Mondaq on their website. In the first episode of the three-part...

ClassNK Grants AiP for Sumitomo’s New Tanker Design

ClassNK has issued an Approval in Principle (AiP) for the design of a methanol dual-fueled tanker developed by Sumitomo Heavy Industries Marine & Engineering...