‘IMO 2020’ Is Making Hedge Funds Strategize for Shipping Investments
According to a Reuters report, Investment funds are placing their bets as the shipping sector prepares for new rules limiting sulphur emissions from ocean-going...
Sea of Thieves Crew Blown Up With a Single Unfortunate Click!
According to an published in PC Gamer, there are a lot of pirate rules that one has difficulty remembering when playing Sea of Thieves.
Impractical...
IMO Warning: FONARs Not To Be Used As a Free Pass!
An increasing number of shippers are opting for FONAR, the ports and ship owners have been warned not to use it as a...
Can Ammonia Be Used As a Source of Marine Fuel?
New research by C-Job Naval Architects reported that ammonia can be safely and effectively applied as a marine fuel to reduce harmful emissions.
An...
Amidst Bills Against Automation, Maersk Finds Support in Shippers and Rail
According to a Freight Waves article, Maersk’s fight to bring automation to its largest North American marine terminal is getting support from shippers and...
Cruise Ships Emitting 10X More SOx
An in-house study by environmental NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) has found that the luxury cruise brands owned by Carnival Corporation & PLC emitted in 2017...
UK Based Coalition of Ships Sponsored Study Shows LNG Better Than...
A recently released study contends that LNG as a marine fuel is “the most financially effective long-term method for complying with the IMO 2020...
Maersk Achieves Its Strategy Milestone
With new ownership structures in place for three out of four of the oil and oil-related businesses, AP Moller–Maersk has reached a milestone in...
MPC Shows How We Can Use Insurance Money for Scrubbers Retrofitting
From the presentation material published in the context of the first quarterly report, MPC Container Ships announced in Oslo that the container ship "AS...
Chemical Residue Kills Young Intern in Ship
A 19 year old University freshman Mustafa Koç was found dead in ship during internship according to a report published in Ahval News.
About the Incident
Piri...
Weekly Tanker Report – Week 28, 2019
The Baltic Briefing has issued the tanker report for the 28th week of this year. The report dated 12th July 2019 provides a valuable...
ABS and MOL in Landmark Gas Carrier Agreement
Gas Carriers (SHANGHAI) ABS has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. (MOL) to collaborate on up to 14 new gas...
LNG Shipping in Terms of the ‘Cool Pool’
The Cool Pool launched in September 2015 with 14 tri-fuel diesel engine (TFDE) LNG carriers.
Cool Pool improves the utilization of the participating...
Port of Corpus Christi Wins AAPA Award of Excellence
The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) recognized the Port of Corpus Christi’s Moving America’s EnergyTM media campaign with its 2019 Award of Excellence,...
Safe Bulkers Completes First Scrubber and BWTS Retrofits
Retrofitting of the exhaust gas cleaning system by Safe Bulkers is in response to IMO regulation starting 1 January 2020.
2009-built Martine gets...
Oil Market Awaits Impact of Barry on Stocks
According to an article published in Freight Investor Services, the front end crude spreads and crack is getting slammed in the fuel oil markets...
Ship’s Crew Detained in Port of Leith Due To ‘Shortage of...
According to an article published in BBC, a Russian ship was detained in Leith over unpaid wages and safety issues has had fresh food...
Product Tankers Ready To Ship Re-engineered Marine Fuel
ExxonMobil has introduced EMF.5, its range of engineered marine fuels developed ahead of IMO’s global 0.50% sulphur cap.
ExxonMobil's fuels are specifically engineered...
Asia Refiners Venture into Export of IMO Compliant Fuel
Taiwan and South Korean refiners are venturing into newer markets to export low-sulphur ship fuel.
Refiners have redirected low-sulphur feedstocks for making VLSFO, with 0.5% or...
[Watch] How Important It Is To Monitor Fuel Spend?
Fuel costs are a critical component of overall transportation expense and with the new IMO 2020 Sulphur fuel regulations it's...
