Americas IMO 2020 Clean Tanker Boom Off To a Delayed Start!

Clean tanker market participants' expectations are based upon the projected return of US Gulf Coast refining capacity around October 15 and exports of...

Ship Registry Surveys Owners and Operators Ahead of Sulphur Cap

IMO 2020 survey by Palau International Ship Registry (PISR) provides insight into the readiness of smaller owners for the sulphur cap. The survey...

Inter-Pacific Petroleum Gets Its Bunker Craft Licence Revoked

The Maritime And Port Authority (MPA) of Singapore has stripped marine fuel services provider Inter-Pacific Petroleum (IPP) of its bunker craft operator licence in...

Oldest Shipyard Ceases To Function After 5 Millenia

After building wooden ships for the last 5,000 years, the historic Beypore shipyard in Kerala, India, is about to close down, reports Ship Nostalgia. Uru...

Oil Shipping Rates Dip After Tanker Fears Ease

Market sources say that freight rates to ship U.S. crude to Asia eased from record levels as the shock of a global tanker shortage...

IMO 2050 GHG Target: Tackling the Bottlenecks

Technological and regulatory challenges to achieve IMO’s greenhouse gas reduction target by 2050 was discussed at the Maritime Hybrid & Electric Conference, reports Riviera...

[FAQ] Scrubbers Technical Guidance for Shippers

With the IMO sulphur cap regulations fast approaching, the Alibra Shipping took a look at some of the issues surrounding scrubber installation and formulated...

BIMCO To Gather Owners To Face New Shipping Era

As global shipping enters a new era, BIMCO's newly elected president - Turkish shipowner Sadan Kaptanoglu - has set herself the goal of gathering...

Future Class Advisories To Be More Risk Informed Data Based:...

In a major development, DNV GL Maritime has said that they believe in the future class and advisory services will become more risk-informed and...

Rotterdam’s Three Steps To Achieve CO2 Neutrality

The Port of Rotterdam is is gradually becoming CO₂ neutral and is working with companies in 3 steps towards a CO2-neutral port, says an...

Beneficial Use of Sediments Presented at IMO London Convention

Recently published two CEDA papers on beneficial use of sediments were presented at the currently ongoing  meeting of the IMO London Convention and Protocol,...

Private Shipping Companies Venturing for Ships-for-Shares Deals!

According to an article published in Sea News, private equity owned or backed shipping companies are increasingly venturing in the ships-for-shares deals with listed...

ABB Launches Intelligent Engine Performance Software!

Tekomar XPERT can be used with any marine main and auxiliary engine, irrespective of manufacturer, type, age or size. There is no hardware...

ISO Sets Out Specification for 0.5% Sulfur Bunker Fuel Challenge!

The new 0.5% sulfur blends will be used by most shipowners next year, confirming how complex bunker procurement is set to become in...

IMO 2020: Analysis of the Forties De-escalator and Brent Basket!

The sulfur de-escalator was introduced in July 2007 to bring more stability for pricing for the North Sea’s Forties crude. Quality of the...

Deliberately Turned Off AIS? Face Sanctions!

Panamanian Registry vessels that deliberately turn off the Automatic Identification System (AIS) will be issued with sanctions, says an article published in Safety4Sea. About the...

What Caused an Unprecedented Surge in Oil Tanker Revenue?

Oil-tanker earnings surged above the $100,000-a-day marker on the benchmark route as a looming ship-fuel revolution combined with U.S. sanctions to supercharge rates, reports...

Weekly Bulk Report – Week 41, 2019

The Baltic Briefing has released a report about the dry bulk market of the 41st week of shipping activities of this year. The report dated...

ESL Shipping Bags M/S Alppila Lease

ESL Shipping Ltd., part of Aspo Group, has acquired cargo vessel M/S Alppila from SEB Leasing, reads a press release from ESL Shipping. The acquisition...

Will Freight Rates Take a Toll on Scrubber Installations?

Freight rate jump has owners rethinking scrubber install schedules, reports Ship & Bunker. Tanker marker scenario The tanker market in particular has had a turbulent few...