Maersk Cautions Customers Over Risk of Exporting Goods

Maersk warns its customers that goods exported to Saudi Arabia from Turkey are very likely to be barred from entry. The allegations regarding Riyadh’s embargo on Turkish goods have prompted the transportation sector...

Shell To Work Towards Net-zero Shipping With Hydrogen Fuel

Shell releases a report titled 'Decarbonizing Shipping: Setting Shell’s Course' which deals with the Shell's role in shipping decarbonisation. The report focuses on how the Shell company can innovatively help phase out emissions...

Orsted and Yara Team Up on ‘Green Ammonia Project’

Ørsted and Yara have joined forces in developing a pioneering project aiming at replacing fossil hydrogen with renewable hydrogen in the production of ammonia. They plan to develop a wind powered electrolyser plant...

Singapore Names Its 1st LNG Bunkering Vessel

Singapore’s first LNG bunkering vessel was named paving way for FueLNG to be the first to provide regular ship-to-ship LNG bunkering within the nation’s port. Scheduled to be operational by end-2020, the vessel...

Government Extends Tax Waiver on Export Freight

The Indian government has extended the waiver of the 5% Goods and Services Tax GST on export freight until September 2021. The waiver will be applicable to both air and ocean export freight. ...

Shipowners’ Association Supports LNG Bunkering Investment

The German shipowners’ association (VDR) has pledged its support to the planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in Brunsbüttel. The trade-body welcomes investments in LNG infrastructure as it sees LNG as currently...

[Watch] Pararescue Jumpers Save Master of Vessel

Air Force pararescue jumpers and a U.S. Navy helicopter crew medevaced the 73-year-old captain of the commercial fishing vessel Lady Alice. She was at a position about 150 miles east of Hilo, Hawaii. Disclaimer: This video...

Scorpio Bulkers Sells Non-scrubber Kamsarmax Vessel for $18.5m

Scorpio Bulkers announces the sale of a second kamsarmax bulker by the Emanuele Lauro led company, says an article published in Splash 247. Second vessel sale Monaco’s Scorpio Bulkers has announced the sale of a kamsarmax...

Foreign Flagged Ships Detained in the UK During August 2020

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) announced that nine foreign flagged ships remained under detention in UK ports during July 2020 after failing port state control (PSC) inspection. Zero new detentions  During August, there were zero...

2020 Medicine Nobel Honors Blood Borne Hepatitis Discovery

The Nobel Prize in Medicine has been jointly awarded to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus which causes a blood-borne liver infection The award is one...