Supply Chain Chaos From Chinese Lockdowns is ‘Going To Be Short-lived’

While China's recent COVID-19 lockdowns are sparking concerns about another massive shockwave through global supply chains, some industry analysts and insiders are anticipating minimal impact as Shanghai — home to the world's largest container...

Wärtsilä Launches Smart Realities for Scalable & Realistic Training

Wärtsilä Voyage has launched Smart Realities, a scalable, and fully immersive extended reality (XR) training and assessment solution for ship handling, bridge and marine engineering applications, reads an official release. The solution will allow mariners...

How To Contain An Outbreak of Infection Onboard?

Gard Club provides useful information and guidance on how to tackle and manage potential outbreak of infection on board. Containing an outbreak  According to the Club, an “outbreak”, in very simple terms is defined as prevalence...

Wärtsilä Writes Off €200m Related To Russian Business

Wärtsilä to write-off approximately EUR 200 mln related to assets and business operations in Russia, reads an official release. Wärtsilä suspends all deliveries After the beginning of Russia’s operation on Ukraine, Wärtsilä immediately suspended all deliveries,...

ENGINE: East of Suez Bunker Fuel Availability Outlook

Prompt HSFO tight in Fujairah and Singapore Singapore port authority mulls additional fuel quality tests Availability normal in Hong Kong and Zhoushan Singapore HSFO380 and VLSFO availability is “super tight” in Singapore and requires 10-12...

Allied’s Weekly Market Report – Week 15, 2022

If you were to just look at the graphical interpretations of both the BDI and BDTI indi- ces from Jan ’20 until today, it would be hard to detect any sort of correlated activity...

GMS Weekly Report – Week 15, 2022

With holidays descending across the Indian sub-continent for Ramadan / Eid celebrations and the rest of the world prepares for Easter weekend, it has been a comparably quieter week in terms of sales and...

Doubled Death Toll Than Previous 2 Years

The number of deaths from Covid-19 in Australia this year to date has reached more than double the deaths from 2020 and 2021 combined, reports The Guardian. Soaring death toll According to federal health department data...

Putin Claims Mariupol Win But Won’t Storm Ukrainian Holdout

Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed victory in the strategic city of Mariupol on Thursday, even as he ordered his troops not to risk more losses by storming the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in...

Green Recycling Is Insufficient

Our current debate is on zero-carbon propulsion, and it’s at least a start. The environmental impact of the steel and equipment that go into a ship is significant. Somewhere out there, there must...