Nor Shipping Promises Action Platform for Sustainable Ocean Business

Nor-Shipping is following up on its role as host of the June 2019 United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) High Level Meeting on Ocean by...

Are the Seafarers Ready for Ballast Water Challenges?

A Lloyd's List webinar sponsored by Hyde Marine examined how ready the industry is to comply with the Ballast Water Management Convention. DNV...

[Watch] NYK Trials World’s First Autonomous Car Carrier

Japan’s NYK Line has conducted what it says is the world’s first Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) trial to be performed in accordance with...

Weekly Bulk Report – Week 39, 2019

The Baltic Briefing has released a report about the dry bulk market of the 39th week of shipping activities of this year. The report...

Industry Heavyweights Form LNG Ship Management

Exmar Ship Management has teamed with Anglo-Eastern Univan Group to form AEX LNG Management. This joint venture will provide newbuilding supervision and vessel...

What is in Store for HSFO With IMO2020 Approaching?

Fuel oil volumes traded in the Platts Market on Close assessment process for 3.5% FOB Rotterdam barges declined 25% month on month in September,...

[Watch] 1,000 Cruise Ship Passengers Stranded! Forced To Sleep On Basketball...

According to an article published in IBTimes, passengers sailing in a P&O cruise ship had a horrendous time when they got stranded in Monte...

Fujairah Heavy Distillate Falls Amid Tight Supply

Stocks of heavy distillates and residues at Fujairah fell 11% to 10.34 million barrels due to tight supply. The outflow for Persian Gulf...

Failed Main Engine Pipe Connection Causes Fire Onboard Hazard

According to a case study published by The Shipowner's Club, a potential fire hazard discovered onboard a vessel was found to be caused by...

Total Seals Long-term High-efficiency LNG Charter Deal

Greece’s TMS Cardiff Gas has entered a long-term charter agreement with Total Gas & Power for one of its 11 ‘X Carrier Series’ LNG...

Mitsubishi Expands Scrubber Production Capacity

Yokohama, Japan, based Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. has increased production capacity for its SOx scrubber system that reduces SOx from exhaust gas of ships,...

MOL Uses AI To Successfully Execute Vessel Allocation Plan

In a major development, TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Juinichiro Ikeda) and its group company MOL Information Systems, Ltd. (President: Tsuyoshi...

Platts Launches Weighted Average Capesize TCE Rate

In a major development, S&P Global Platts has announced that they will start publishing a new daily weighted average Capesize time charter equivalent (TCE)...

IMO’s ‘Empowering Women in Maritime’ Finds Support in Wallenius, As It...

International Maritime Organization (IMO) World Maritime Day was celebrated on 26 September, with the 2019 theme “Empowering Women in the Maritime Community“, says an...

[Watch] Maersk COO Explain Shipping’s Climate Efforts at UN Climate Action...

Recently, Maersk released a video of their COO, Soren Toft, explaining shipping's climate efforts at the UN Climate Action Summit. The video described as...

LNG The Most Commercially Viable Future Proof Fuel?

According to a new report released by SEALNG, Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) is the most mature, scalable, and commercially viable alternative fuel currently available...

BIMCO: Regulating Propulsion Good Way To Curb Emissions

In a major development, BIMCO has submitted a proposal to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to regulate the propulsion power of ships in order...

The Third Largest Merchant Fleet in EU Is ‘Sulphur Cap Ready’

According to a  leading shipowner shipping companies in Cyprus, whose merchant fleet is the third biggest in the EU and eleventh in the world,...

Distracted Captain on Phone Results in Bulk Carrier – Barge Collision

According to an NTSB investigation report, On January 31, 2016, at 1953 local time, the bulk carrier Aris T collided with a moored tank...

Kuehne + Nagel Takes the Green Pledge

Kuehne + Nagel (KN) is claiming a win for the environment after announcing that it will offer carbon-neutral services for all less-than-containerload (LCL) shipments,...