Supply Cuts in LSFO Show Stable Bunker Demand

According to an article published in Platts, with supply cuts across the Asian low sulfur market and stable bunker demand in Singapore, margins have...

CMA CGM Dispatches ‘A Humanitarian Ship for Lebanon’

CMA CGM Group’s ro-ro vessels have been dispatched to Lebanon. It has mobilized its expertise to transport the load to the nation battered...

Captain of Ship in Mauritius Oil Spill Arrested

Captain of the ship that spilled hundreds of tonnes of oil off the coast of Mauritius has been arrested. He has been charged...

S. Korean Shipyard Bags US$409 million New Build Order

Korea Shipbuilding bags US$409 million order for 10 petrochemical carriers. The 50,000-ton vessels will be built by Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co., and delivered...

Chartwell, Diverse & HST Join Hands in Reducing Overall Carbon Footprint

Chartwell Marine seal a contract to design and deliver a new hybrid Chartwell 24 CTV for HST.  Reduces vessel emissions and fuel consumption...

Container Shipping Giants CMA CGM & Hapag Lloyd Revise Service Charges

CMA CGM’s increased freight of all kinds (FAK) rates will be in effect from 1 September and not beyond 30 September. The Marseille-based...

Maersk Predicts a Pre-Covid Volume Return Amid “Massive Problem”

Maersk announced a significant increase in operating earnings in Q2. Forecasts to see a return to pre-COVID cargo volume levels within a year's...

Weekly Tanker Report – Week 34, 2020

The Baltic Briefing has issued the tanker report for the 34th week of this year. The report dated 21st August 2020 provides a valuable insight...

Covid 19 Pushing Singapore Port To Strategize for Carbon Emissions

Due to covid 19 the shipping activity in Singapore has come to a stand-still except for a few. On the other hand it...

Two Key People Accused in Alleged Petrobras-Maersk Corruption Case

Brazilian prosecutors  pressed charges against two people, including a former Maersk executive. They have been accused for their alleged involvement in a scheme...

Covid 19 To Stay Forever, Vaccination At Regular Intervals A Must

A member of government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), Sir Mark Walport, says the coronavirus will be present forever in some form...

Chinese Aviation Exercise Employs Commercial Ships for Military Use

According to recent videos, an aviation brigade of the Chinese PLAGF conducted drills displaying their capabilities to use commercial ships for military purposes. ...

Zero Emission Tanker Launched To Tackle Carbon Emissions

Japanese group to build first zero-emission tanker by 2021. Shipping industry to cut sulfur emissions under IMO 2020. Industries from auto to aviation...

Hi-5 Bunker Spread Falls To Record Lows

VLSFO premiums at Rotterdam port fell to a record low with high fuel oil resilient to bearish fundamentals in the global oil complex. ...

Missing Crew Recovered from Sunken Dedger

The USCG rescued two of the six crew onboard from the Waymon L Boyd following reports of a fire in the Port of...

Shipping Company Partitioned To Enable DP World Deal

Mumbai-listed Shreyas Shipping & Logistics Ltd, the Indian flagged vessel owning unit of Transworld Group, will be split in two. This split up...

Shipping Is Going Green By Growing Food on Ships & Rooftops

As companies seek to be more environmentally friendly and sustainable, they are starting to take up new avenues like growing food on ships, reports...

A To Z of Methanol Poisoning and How Sanitizers Fuel It

As sanitizers become the norm of the day in this pandemic world, severe cases poisoning and deaths related to sanitizers are surfacing. Many were...

How Can You Differentiate COVID19 Loss of Smell & Blocked Nose?

The pandemic virus effect on smell and taste is quite different from those of common cold and flu, and they can be readily...

Busting the ‘Takeaway & Delivery’ Myths With COVID19 Food Safety Guide

Health experts and researchers assert that takeaways and deliveries are safe if you do contactless delivery and don't eat out of the containers. ...