Equinor, Gazprom Lose European Gas Market Share While LNG Surges

Europe’s two biggest suppliers of pipeline gas, Norway’s Equinor and Russia’s Gazprom, witnessed loss in market share for the first time in at least...

Compliant Fuel Compatibility and Availability Concerns Ahead of 2020

With just 4 months left for the implementation on January 1, 2020, IMO’s sulphur cap rule, it is extremely worrying that compliant fuels are...

Who is Willing To Take the Greater Fall in the Trade...

China's plan to put tariffs on U.S. crude oil shows it is willing to take more economic pain in the trade war than...

Singapore Prepared for Fuel Oil Deadline

Leading independent oil storage companies highlight a growth in gas and chemicals storage over oil products tankage and the focus on fuel oil...

[Watch] World’s Largest Plug-in Hybrid Delivered

Norway’s Ulstein Verft shipyard has delivered the world’s largest plug-in hybrid vessel, Color Hybrid, to Color Line. Measuring 160 m in length and 27.1 m...

Platts Gets Cracking With LNG Bunker Fuel Assessments Ahead of IMO2020

IMO regulations imply the use of LNG bunker fuel or scrubber installations. Platts agency to launch top global bunkering hubs at Singapore and...

Robot Ship Maxlimer To Make the Vaunted Crossing

Maxlimer could be the first unmanned surface vessel to make the vaunted crossing—opening the way for a new generation of oceangoing drones, cutting prices...

K-NOM’s Shipyard Focuses on “Green Refits”

N-KOM has completed almost 1,000 marine and offshore projects such as drydocking and repairs undertaken for various types of vessels. The vessels include...

Shippers Keen To Experiment With Wind and Battery Power!

In April 2018, the IMO adopted targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the shipping industry by at least 50 percent in 2050...

SFL’s Stable Performance Yields 10% in Q2 Reports

In 2018, SFL received $1.5 million in profit sharing and in 2017 they got as much as $5.6 million, admittedly with a larger...

LSFO Output Capacity To Increase in 2020 Due To Chinese Refiners

China imported 16.44 million mt of fuel oil in 2018 from which 56% came from Singapore and Malaysia. Sinopec's Jinling Petrochemical was the...

Captains To Lead Australia’s New Antarctic Research Vessel Announced

According to an article published in The Maritime Executive, Captains to lead Australia's New Antarctic Research Vessel the RSV Nuyina are announced.  How different is...

Three Dead and Over 240 Rescued After Ferry Blaze

The M/V Lite Ferry 16 was ablaze off Dapitan city in Zamboanga del Norte province, costing the lives of 3 people. Around 245...

Fancy a Pirate Party With Jack Sparrow? Airbnb Lists a Pirate...

According to a New York Post report, a Minnesota Airbnb listing advertises a striking-looking pirate ship docked in the Mississippi River where guests can...

Locking a Ship in Ice To Study the Polars?

According to the Science Magazine, arctic researchers are using a century old formula of locking ship in ice to study polar region. If this...

France Supports Slow Steaming for Emission Reduction at G7, America Agrees

President Emmanuel Macron chose this week’s G7 summit to reaffirm France’s commitment to slow-steaming as the best tool to tackle climate change, reports the...

Alphaliner Says That Compliant Fuel Spread Goes in Favour of Scrubbers

According to Alphaliner, the decision by shipowners to invest in retrofitting their vessels with scrubber systems in order to comply with IMO 2020 appears...

US Fines Greek Shipping Companies for Air Emissions Case

The US Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands announced that two Greek Shipping companies have been convicted and sentenced for various pollution,...

Singapore’s Coastal Oil Fall Crushes COSCO Shipping‘s Bunker Sales

COSCO Shipping‘s Bunker Sales Wiped Out Following Collapse of Singapore’s Coastal Oil, reports Ship&Bunker. 2019 interim results report Following the collapse of Coastal Oil Singapore Pte...

Texas Storage Operator Now in Compliant Marine Fuel Production Race

Texas storage operator launches own crude processing facility to produce low-sulfur marine fuels ahead of 2020, reports Reuters. 50,000 bpd of low sulphur A U.S. Gulf...