SHI Wins AiP for First Ship Design To Prevent Infectious Diseases
Samsung Heavy Industries has succeeded in developing the world’s first ship with infectious disease prevention technology.
SHI has won an AIP from the US-based classification society ABS for the infectious disease mitigation arrangement...
VLCC Witness Marginal Rise Amid Steady Aframax Market
The Baltic Briefing has issued the tanker report for the 50th week of this year. The report dated 11th December 2020 provides a valuable insight into this week’s tanker market dealings, freight rates, and...
MSC Seals A $15M Second-hand Containership Deal
Swiss-headquartered containerline Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) continues to hoover up second-hand boxships at pace with the latest deal, reports Splash247.
$15m Lomar deal
MSC has acquired the 2005-built 4,934 teu Texas Trader from Lomar Shipping in...
Capesize Falls & Panamax Stays Firm in This Week’s Bulk Market
Baltic Exchange has released a report about the dry bulk market for the 50th week of shipping activities of this year. The report dated 11th December highlights the plight of the dry bulk market...
Berthed Tanker Suffers Explosion
A tanker berthed at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, reportedly suffers an explosion at around 2210 UTC Dec 13.
The cause for the explosion is due to some external factors.
According to a recent news article published in...
Scrubbers – 380 HSFO Combination Attractive As Global Scrubber Spread Widens
The combination of scrubbers and 380 HSFO seems more attractive to the shipowners after the global scrubber spread (the price difference between 380 HSFOs and VLSFOs) widened this week, says an article published in...
5G, AI & Digital Twins in Port Operations
The Port of Livorno has become a testbed not only for how future ports may look, but also how any future industrial setting may look.
Here, a digital twin allows workers to operate...
Beware of Stowaways in Rudder Trunk
In its recent article Gard explores how stowaways in vessel's rudder trunk can be dangerous for ships
Over the years Gard has seen several cases where stowaways have hidden in the vessels’ rudder trunks in...
Cosco Sells Major Stake in Leasing Company for $270M
Listed leasing arm of Cosco Shipping expects to offload a substantial stake in one of its non-shipping subsidiaries to a state-owned fund for more than $270m.
Cosco Shipping Development says the sale will...
Bakker Sliedrecht Electrifies Two Crane Vessels For The Use Of Green Shore Power
As part of the project, nine modern wind turbines with a total capacity of 27 megawatts will replace ten existing wind turbines on the headland at Rozenburg
The offshore company’s Thialf and Sleipnir...