BHP Seals LNG Supply Deal With Shell

Australian resource company BHP signed the first LNG supply deal for its Newcastlemax bulkers with Shell. Shell has been awarded the contract to...

Pandemic Fiasco Brings About A Spike in Vessel Operational Costs

Vessel operating costs have risen at their fastest pace in over a decade this year, on higher insurance cover premiums and COVID-19 related expenses,...

Wärtsilä Selects Shell Oils For Engine Testing

Wärtsilä has partnered with Shell to use its oil for Wärtsilä engines during factory tests. Wärtsilä chose Shell because of its complete range...

Breaking Down the Names of World’s Largest Containerships

Container ships have been in existence since several centuries and they have grown bigger and bigger with time. To understand their immense load carrying...

Measures To Banish Stocks That Do Not Comply With Audit Rules

Lawmakers next week are likely to force Chinese companies with shares traded on American exchanges to finally comply with audit-oversight rules -- or leave...

Shipowners Loss of Cargo & Demurrage Claims When Ship Held Beyond...

In a recent English High Court decision K-Line Pte Ltd v Priminds Shipping (HK) Co., Ltd EWHC 2373 (Comm), the Court considers whether...

Scorpio Bulkers Announce Sale of Their Ultramax Bulk Carrier

  Scorpio Bulkers Inc., in a website, have announced the sale of their Ultramax bulk carrier, SBI Gemini. SBI Gemini Scorpio Bulkers Inc. announced that they have...

8 Methanol Dual-fuel Ships Ordered at Hyundai Mipo

Canada-based Waterfront Shipping Company (WFS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Methanex Corporation, has placed an order for eight new methanol dual-fuel vessels with South Korean...

Pfizer COVID Vaccine Ready To Roll Out After Emergency Authorization

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine will be made available across the UK from next week. The U.K. government says frontline health care workers and...

GAC Group Wins Ship Agency of the Year Award

Mani Balakhrishnan, Marketing Manager - Shipping Services - Middle East , Indian Subcontinent for GAC Group, accepted the Ship Agency of the Year award...

SCI Owned Bulk Carrier Arrested

According to an article published in ET A vessel owned by the Shipping Corporation of India has been arrested in South Africa on the...

Ningbo Containerised Freight Index

Baltic Exchange publishes the weekly Ningbo Containerised Freight Index, compiled by the Ningbo Shipping Exchange. Weekly composite index covering 20ft, 40ft and Hi Cube box...

Diana Shipping Inc. Announces Time Charter With Glencore

  Diana Shipping Inc. has entered into a time charter contract for m/v Artemis with Glencore, says a press release published on their website. Time charter...

Bio-LNG Bunkering In Rotterdam Was A “One-Off”

The use of biomethane in Total's first bunkering of the CMA CGM Jacques Saade at Rotterdam earlier this month was a 'one-off' rather than...

Forwarders Urge EC To Intervene As Carriers Avoid Congested UK Ports

According to a Loadstar report, as carriers continue to leave import containers stranded at North European ports and charge exporters more than $5,000 to...

[Watch] Container Ship Sinks While Relocating

A section of container ship under construction tilted and sank while in process of relocation from one dry dock to another, at Kaohsiung ShipYard,...

S&P Global Merge With IHS Markit for a $44 Billion...

S&P Global is merging with IHS Markit in a $44 billion all-stock deal. The companies announced Monday, forging a financial data powerhouse in...

[Watch] World’s First Fully Electric, Autonomous & Zero Emission Container Ship

The vessel YARA Birkeland will be the world’s first fully electric and autonomous container ship, with zero emissions, says an article published in KONGSBERG ...

Welding Malfunction Leads To Pier Contact

The failure of a weld ultimately led to a barge breaking loose from its mooring and heavily damaging a pier in November of last...

Major Carriers Push EU for Free Emission Allowances

European Commission prepares revision of the EU carbon market with shipping in it. Major carriers push the EU for free emission allowances. The...