Dead Crew Stuck Aboard Cargo Ships Amid COVID Restrictions
Unable to be offloaded, various corpses have been kept in onboard freezers for months, reports M.Net
The downside of COVID restrictions
COVID-19 has forced everyone in the supply chain to take all sorts of precautionary measures...
New Laws To Prevent Mass Scale Marine Pollution
The need to develop legal infrastructure in line with international conventions identified.
A Committee appointed to identify legal provisions related to Maritime Law in line with International and Domestic requirements
The government has taken...
Oil Prices See Dull Rise Amid Biden’s “Inadequate” SPR Release
With U.S. president Joe Biden's much-feared release of inventory from that country's Strategic Petroleum Reserve proving to be smaller than expected, crude prices on Tuesday continued their upward trajectory – this time by 2.3...
Shipping Companies Look For New Technology To Reduce Emissions
Hundreds of environmental activists have gathered in Glasgow Park to call on the government to step up its actions against global warming at the nearby United Nations Climate Change Conference.
A major shipping...
ABB Offers Shipowners A New Point Of Entry To Digitalization
ABB Ability™ OneBox – Marine Signals Monitoring offers shipowners a new point of entry to digitalization, providing data about ship performance.
OneBox provides owners information that helps them to meet the International Maritime...
What It’s Like To Navigate Through the Suez Canal
It requires a raft of complex bureaucratic approvals, timely logistics, tight scheduling and close monitoring to ensure the smooth transit of between 50 and 70 ships daily along the narrow Egyptian waterway that is...
China Rely More On Regular Suppliers As Crude Imports Slump
Top 10 suppliers take 89% of market share in Oct
Imports from Saudi Arabia jump 20% on year
Russian arrivals up 1.3% on year
Chinese crude buyers replied more on their regular suppliers in...
NGO Urge IMO To Reduce Black Carbon Emissions In The Arctic
Virtual meeting of the IMO, PPR 8, 22-26 March opens today, non-governmental organisations are calling on the IMO to reduce climate-warming emissions of black carbon from ships currently using heavy fuel oil in...
SFL Corp. Buys Aframax Tanker Quartet in A $160M Deal
SFL has acquired the ships from Frontline affiliate Hemen Holdings for $160m, reports Lloyd's List.
Aframax charters worth $160m
SFL Corporation has swooped for four modern aframax LR2 product tankers, paying John Fredriksen’s Frontline $160m for...
Bad Weather Does Not Stop Sinopec
The ramp-up in gas supply is on account of another cold snap.
China's Central Meteorological Observatory issued a "blue" warning on Nov. 19, signalling a cold front was expected to sweep across the...