Diana Shipping Announces Time Charter With Koch

Diana Shipping Inc. announces time charter contract for m/v Newport News with Koch, says a press release published on their website. Time charter contract Diana Shipping...

GTT Bags Tank Design Deal for 6 LNG Carriers

GTT to design tanks for six new LNG Carriers. Two of the LNGCs will be built by HSHI and the other four LNGCs...

Damen Delivers Fast Crew Supplier To Dutch Shipping Company

Damen Shipyards Group delivered a Fast Crew Supplier (FCS) 2710 to Rederij Groen. This, the first delivery of the new FCS vessel in the Netherlands,...

First Foreign Flagged LNG Bunkering in the U.S.

FURE VEN, a dual-fuel vessel owned and operated by Furetank of Donsö, Sweden, has become the first non-U.S. flagged vessel to bunker LNG...

Negligently Prepared Passage Plan Renders Vessel Unseaworthiness

International law aims to apportion risk in the transport of goods between the ship interests and cargo interests. Shipowners are responsible for cargo...

VLCC Tanker Fire Extinguished, No New Reignition

The fire on the VLCC tanker 'New Diamond' is under control or extinguished. The is no new reignition and the tanker is under...

The Ships That Caused Major Oil Spills

Oil slick found a kilometre away from the supertanker engulfed by intermittent fires since an explosion on Sep.3. The 20-year old 'New Diamond'...

Oil Prices Overturn Some Losses Amid Demand Concerns

Oil futures clawed back some of the losses they sustained in the previous session. Anyways a rebound in COVID-19 cases in some countries...

Container Market Sees Best Q2 With a $2.7bn Profit

The container shipping industry posted a combined profit of $2.7bn in the second quarter of this year. The positive results were despite every...

China Revises Law on Solid Waste Disposal

The current PRC Law on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Wastes prohibits the import, dumping and disposal of solid...

World Trade Center Faces New ‘Microscopic Virus’ Threat

New York’s Twin Towers undergo a halt in construction due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Number of visitors has reduced drastically since the virus...

Vaccine Makers Pledge of Rigorous Testing To Approve COVID19 Vaccine

Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Sanofi, BionTech, Pfizer, GlaxoKlineSmith and Novavax signed the historic pledge. It promises they will 'uphold the integrity...

WHO Reiterates Vaccine Safety Commitment After COVID19 Vaccine Trial Halt

According to a Reuters report, the World Health Organization has reiterated the importance of vaccine safety after the oxford vaccine trial was stopped due...

CMA CGM Delivers Strong Q2 2020 Results Despite COVID-19 Pandemic

Ebitda grew by 30% to $1.05bn, with the operating margin up 86% to $497m in the shipping industry. The group generated operating cash...

[Answer] How To Check the Fixed Gas Detection System Sensors Tolerance...

According to a Gard report, during routine port state control inspections, the USCG found that fixed gas detection system sensors on a few LNG...

Second Russian COVID19 Vaccine Trials Completed

According to a Reuters report, Siberia's vector virology institute completed early stage human trials, known as Phase II, of a second potential Russian vaccine...

Real Time Ship Monitoring by exactEarth’s ESAIL Microsatellite

 A leading provider of Satellite-AIS data services 'exactEarth', announces the successful launch of the ESAIL microsatellite. The ESAIL satellite was launched on September...

90% Less Emission Wind Powered Car Carrier in 2024

wPCC shows that the maritime industry can bring about major change and that zero-emission shipping is possible, using wind as the main energy...

Steel Cut on LNG-powered MR Product Tanker

Zvezda shipbuilding has started building a first LNG-powered MR type product tanker for compatriot shipowner Sovcomflot, says an article published on their website. LNG-powered MR...

COVID-19 Vaccine Trial’s First Ever Halt Due To Unexplained Illness

AstraZeneca is currently in late-stage phase 3 trials for their vaccine candidates. During the clinical trial of the covid vaccine, an unexplained illness...