KPI OceanConnect Targeting 8% Growth In 2022, Says CEO

Global demand growth at 3% in 2022: Platts Analytics KPI OceanConnect retains its focus on Asia Fossil fuels will remain amid take-up of alternative fuels Bunker supplier KPI OceanConnect is targeting 8% growth in...

Ocean Carriers Record the Greatest Quarter Ever

It’s still early in the reporting cycle, but preliminary announcements by ocean carriers point to history-making profits in Q4 2021, trouncing already stratospheric expectations, reports FreightWaves. Supply chain congestion — the bane of cargo shippers...

MOL & Methanex Announce Closing of Strategic Partnership

Methanex Corporation and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) have announced the completion of the strategic partnership involving Methanex’s Waterfront Shipping (WFS) subsidiary, reads a MOL press release. Methanex retains majority As previously reported, MOL announced the 40%...

[Watch] Amazing Underwater Habitats

Underwater habitats are underwater structures in which people can live for extended periods and carry out most of the basic human functions of a 24-hour day, such as working, resting, eating, attending to personal...

Maritime Occupational Accidents And Its Underlying Causes

Slips, trips, and falls are on the same level as the top immediate causal factor for injuries, while the fall overboard of a person is the top immediate causal factor for fatalities. Dislocations,...

Shipping Giant’s Preliminary Agreement To Buy A Majority Stake

CMA CGM To buy a 51% stake in Colis Prive from Hopps Group. CMA CGM has been building up a logistics business. French shipping giant CMA CGM said it had struck a preliminary agreement...

Asia Light Ends: Key Market Indicators For Jan 31-Feb 4

Asia's light ends markets firmed in mid-morning trade Jan. 31 on stronger crude oil futures, although gasoline market participants were wary of softening demand in India but optimistically cautious that the omicron outbreak had...

Emulsion Fuel Firm Quadrise Announces Biofuel Test Results

Emulsion fuels firm Quadrise has carried out further testing of biofuels emulsified using its process, says an article published in Ship and Bunker. MSAR technology Quadrise uses its MSAR technology to emulsify bunker fuels with water,...

Are Li-ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles Combustible?

researchers need more data to determine fire rates conclusively. the qualities that make lithium-ion battery cells powerful enough to move a passenger vehicle can also make them vulnerable to igniting. Tesla recently announced...

Tank Container Risk Analysis

TT Club’s analysis of 2020 claims points to an increase in impact related incidents, with corrosion of tank containers’ inner surface. The analysis makes clear that the effects of increased volumes of tank...