IPO Expected from SM Line in 2021

SM Line announces that it is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) in the second half of the year. The shipping company...

Oldendorff Carriers Signs A Major Fuel Saving Technology Project

Oldendorff Carriers (OC) sign a Joint Development Project (JDP) with Anemoi Marine Technologies (Anemoi), LR and SDARI. The JDP is to develop a...

Debunking Pirate Attack, Plight of Seafarers

Pirates are stepping up attacks on ships in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea, defying regional navies. On Saturday, pirates off Nigeria kidnapped 15...

Rising Shipping Costs Spurs Stress on China-Europe Trade

The cost of shipping goods from China to Europe increases by up to 600 percent in recent weeks. The rise in cost of...

[Watch] Seafarers Should Receive Vaccine Priority, Says Stakeholder

A maritime industry stakeholder is calling on the Philippine government to also prioritize seafarers as in the country's COVID-19 vaccine rollout, reports ABS CBN...

Inmarsat Secures Fleet Agreement To Accelerate Maritime Digitalisation

Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, has secured a fleet-wide agreement with offshore support vessel major Tidewater to advance its digitalization...

This Amazon-backed Startup To Make Net-zero Transportation Fuels

Infinium, an electrofuels solution provider, closed the funding bringing together a consortium of investors including Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), AP...

Oil Majors To Tackle Rising Crude Prices Amid Muted Demand

Indian majors have to balance between rising crude prices, muted demand and heavy central and state levies on retail prices, reports the Business Standard. Crude...

CMA CGM Set To Close Its Transpacific SEA-X Service

CMA CGM appears to be set to close its transpacific express container shipping service, after worsening congestion at Los Angeles port impacted delivery guarantees,...

HMM’s First Extra Loader in Korea-Europe Route

On Jan 27, HMM announced that it will deploy its first extra loader on the Korea-Europe route on Jan 31 to help Korean companies...

KDB Planning To Sell HMM To POSCO

The largest shareholder of HMM, Korea Development Bank (KDB) is planning to sell off HMM (formerly known as Hyundai Merchant Marine) to POSCO, to...

Method To Detect Unmanned Underwater Vehicles Developed

Researchers at Draper, MIT have developed a passive acoustic remote sensing method for unmanned underwater vehicles, says an article published in Yahoo Finance. Acoustic Signature...

Restricted Availability Hampering Methanol Bunkering Uptake

Recently Platts spoke with Stuart McCall from Methanex about the prospect of methanol as a bunker fuel. Today we are going to take a...

Bursting the Myths of Biofuels

With efforts to save the planet from global warming and recognition of the need to protect the environment, many countries and the UN have...

Here Comes The Next Generation Superyacht

The 85-foot superyacht, known as the Drakkar S, will make sailing in luxury a whole lot easier, says an article published in Tatler. Futuristic Superyacht...

Taiwan’s Wan Hai Orders 12 Boxships at Nihon Shipyard

Taiwanese shipping line Wan Hai Lines has announced a plan to order twelve 3,013 teu boxships at the newly founded Nihon Shipyard. About The Ship The...

BIMCO Adopts New Time Charter for Accommodation Support Vessels

BIMCO has published a new standard time charter party for accommodation support vessels (ASVTIME), reads the club's press release. Contract to meet oil and gas...

Cosmoship Orders Boxship Quartet

Cosmoship orders up to four boxships at Huangpu Wenchong, says an article published Seatrade Maritime News. About the deal The deal, jointly signed by CSSC Huangpu...

Leading Marine Contractor Signs Up for Techcross BWMS

Heerema Marine Contractors has signed a contract to install Techcross’ ECS units in six vessels and barges, says an article published in Riviera Maritime...

Bill & Melinda Gates On Covid-19 and Their Vaccine Efforts

According to an article published in CNN, Bill Gates and Melinda Gates shares their opinion about the devastating pandemic and its impact on future...