Beware of 7 IMO FAL Documents! Electronic Information Exchange Is in...

Aim is to make cross-border trade simpler and the logistics chain more efficient, for the more than 10 billion tons of goods which...

Chimbusco Agrees Low-sulphur Marine Fuel Deal With COSCO Unit

Chimbusco has agreed a one-year low-sulphur marine fuel supply deal with a COSCO Shipping Corp unit to meet new global environmental rules. The...

Weekly Tanker Report – Week 14, 2019

The Baltic Briefing has issued the tanker report for the 14th week of this year. The report dated 5th March 2019 provides a valuable...

South Korean Shipbuilders Are Second Worldwide in New Builds

South Korean shipbuilders came in second worldwide in terms of new orders in the first quarterly with new orders totalling 1.62 million compensated...

MOL Nordic Tankers Gets BunkerPlanner

MOL Nordic Tankers has extended its trial of the BunkerPlanner marine fuel analysis tool to its whole global fleet. BunkerPlanner enables ship owners...

Cruise Ship Bound for the Netherlands Collides With Oil Tanker

According to an article by Travel Weekly, a cruise ship traveling off the coast of Terneuzen collided with a tanker. What happened? According to a Travel Weekly report,...

TOP Ships Inc. Adds 157,000dwt Suezmax To Its Fleet

In a recent development, the international owner and operator of modern, fuel efficient "ECO" tanker vessels, TOP Ships Inc. has announced that it took...

Burning High Sulfur Fuel in Singapore Gets You 2 Year in...

Singapore has a message for shipping companies considering cheating on rules starting next year to combat pollution to save a few dollars on their...

What To Expect in Sulphur Cap 2020 Awards and Conference?

With less than 10 months remaining for the once-in-a-generation IMO 2020 regulatory change that will shift most of the global fleet onto entirely new...

Ship Owners Worry As Ports Ban Economical Option ‘Scrubbers’

Many ports are banning one of the cheapest options for meeting new environmental shipping rules imposed by IMO. The fuel cleaning system pumps...

What It Takes To Be a Woman at Sea? Serena...

In March this year, just close to International Women's Day the  Regent Seven Seas Cruises declared that their newest cruise ship Seven Seas Splendor...

CMA-CGM Splits Ten 15,000 Teu Order 50/50 Between LNG and Scrubbers

Two strategic agreements covering construction of 10 new 15,000 TEU containerships signed. Five of them are LNG fueled and five fitted with hybrid...

Amateur Mate Allided Tow With Bridge While Crew Was Asleep

The Incident On March 1, 2016, about 0322 local time, the open barge SJ-199 being pushed by the tugboat Kodiak allided with the North Landing Bridge...

[Watch] The Bottleneck at the Panama Canal

 The Panama Canal's limited number of slots - or vessel transit permits - per day can be a constraint for LNG tankers during peak...

Shell Enters Into 20-Year Deal With Rio Grande LNG

Shell has become the first customer at NextDecade's proposed $15 billion Rio Grande LNG export terminal at the Port of Brownsville. hell will...

Nakilat Adds Two LNG Carriers To Joint Venture With Maran

  Qatari LNG shipping giant Nakilat has expanded its joint venture partnership with Greek shipping company Maran Ventures. This new agreement increases the number...

Belships Acquires Supramax Bulk Carrier

Belships ASA has entered into an agreement to acquire a 58,700 dwt bulk carrier from Wenaas Shipping AS. The agreed purchase price is...

Cargo Ship Listing While Docked in Hartlepool Investigated

Authorities are carrying out an inspection on a large cargo ship which has been listing while docked in Hartlepool. MCA surveyors are planning to...

Storm Hits Chemical Disaster Site Closes Houston Ship Channel

The Houston Ship Channel has been shut down due to violent storms wracked the chemical disaster site. The outbound shipping has been halted and...

$120 Million Worth Cocaine Retrieved from a Spanish Ship in the...

According to a News Day report, the Coast Guard retrieved a suspicious attachment ship in the Atlantic. What happened? The Coast Guard members of the Organised...