One MOL Safety Campaign For 2021 Underway Online

MOL today announced that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the "One MOL Safety Campaign" for 2021 is being held online from July 2021 to March 2022. In April 2021, MOL updated its group...

GMF Partners With Mærsk To Decarbonize The Maritime Industry

GMF and Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping have signed a partnership agreement to decarbonize the global maritime industry. Mærsk established the centre in an effort to develop new fuel types...

LA/Long Beach Ports Delay Excess Container Dwell Fees

Implementation postponed until at least Nov. 29 Cargo dwelling on terminals fall 33% The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have again delayed their implementation of fines against shipping lines for containers that...

Early Arctic Sea Freeze Traps 18 Ships in Ice

At least 18 ships are stuck in Arctic sea ice off the coast of Russia after an unexpected early freeze took shipping companies by surprise, reports the Independent. Some could be stranded for months as...

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...