Weekly Bulk Report – Week 35, 2019
The Baltic Briefing has released a report about the dry bulk market of the 35th week of shipping activities of this year. The report...
Maersk Look Towards Using Market Slowdown To Its Advantage As Trade...
Maersk, world’s largest integrated shipping and logistics solution, reported an almost flat growth in worldwide demand at 2% in the second quarter from a...
Singapore Commissions BWMS Tests Similar To 2018 Ballast Convention Proposals
In a major development, Singapore has announced that Singapore-registered vessels need to undertake BWMS commissioning tests from 9 September 2019 which is months if...
Tankers With Methanol Burning Options Shows Hope for Methanol Marine Fuel
According to an article published in Presswire, the Methanol Institute has welcomed the launch of two new dual-fuelled tankers capable of operation using clean-burning...
Reefers Reducing Fuel Dependency To Help in IMO 2020 Compliance Costs
Saving fuel is more important than ever with the low sulphur cap – and reefers can help with their focus on energy efficiency, says...
Liquefaction Caused Large Ore Carrier Vanish in Minutes?
With 22 of the 24 crew members of the very large ore carrier STELLAR DAISY still missing, many in the shipping industry have been...
DIS Announces the Sale of Vessel Built by Hyundai Mipo
DIS announced the sale of MT GLENDA Megan, built in 2009 by Hyundai Mipo, for a consideration of US$ 19.0 million.
DIS’ fleet...
DNV GL Grants thyssenkrupp Approval Certificate for 3D Printing
According to an article published in The Maritime Executive, DNV GL has awarded thyssenkrupp, First Additive Manufacturing Approval of Manufacturer Certificate.
Benefits of 3D printing
The...
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...
