Methanol – A Potential Sustainable Marine Fuel

Alfa Laval – a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – will start testing an innovative marine fuel cell system in corporation with Blue World Technologies and some major players...

MOL To Built LNG Carriers As Uniper Shift To Hydrogen Hub

Japan’s shipping giant MOL has amended its order to build a large FSRU after its partner Uniper decided to develop a hydrogen hub instead of an LNG import terminal, says an article published in...

COVID-19 Reported To Have Claimed 3 Million Lives

More than 5.2 million new cases were recorded last week , the most in a single week since the pandemic began. Deaths increased for the fifth straight week with the pandemic now officially...

Indian Funds Its Vaccine Manufacturers With $610 million

India’s government has approved a 45.67-billion-rupee ($610 million) grant for COVID-19 vaccine makers Serum Institute of India (SII) and Bharat Biotech to boost production capacity, says an article published in Reuters. Serum Institute of India SII,...

What happens when someone is banged beyond nautical miles

It is surprisingly common for ships and their crews to be stranded and sometimes abandoned due to disappearing owners, pay disputes, and management troubles. It could be inferred in the following case.Aisha has been...

G E Shipping Delivers Secondhand Midsize Gas Carrier

The Great Eastern Shipping Company Limited (G E Shipping) took delivery of a secondhand Midsize Gas Carrier “Jag Vikram” of about 35,188 cbm. The company had contracted to buy thevessel in Q4 FY21.According...

Wärtsilä Navigation To Secure Latest Technology For LNG Gas Carriers

Wärtsilä Voyage has signed a contract to deliver the latest technology in radio and integrated navigation systems. It is for ten icebreaking LNG-fueled gas carriers to be constructed for the Arctic LNG-2...

Apple Unveils A Truckload Of New Products And Features

Apple made good on its "Spring loaded" promise by unveiling a slew of new products at its annual Spring product launch event. From a new IPad Pro and redesigned, colorful iMacs to a purple...

Bunkering Hubs To Grow Market Share

The recent trend of major ports taking a rising share of the bunker fuel market at the expense of smaller ports may be set to accelerate amid the increasing diversification in offerings, reports Platts. Key...

Recycling Halts At Alang Due To Shortage Of Oxygen

The Oxyfuel process is the most widely applied industrial thermal cutting process. The scrap prices are ruling at ₹36,800 a ton and 12 mm re-rollable steel plate is priced at ₹41,000 a ton. ...