How Icebreakers Keep Ports Open Even in Harsh Winter
Med Marine developed its MED-A3055 Ice-Super class design for tugs it built in 2021 for Romania’s Ministry of Transport.
Med Marine developed it to manage ice and assist vessels traveling along the Danube...
ICS and IRENA To Collaborate on Green Fuel Transition
ICS has signed a Partnership Agreement with IRENA to support the decarbonisation of the shipping sector.
The agreement’s main role is in the transition towards a global energy sector based on renewables.
The International...
Yang Ming Finally Nods for 15,000 TEU Quintet
Yang Ming is to finally make a long-awaited order for Neo-Panamax new buildings, more than a year after its peers began fleet expansion amid rocketing freight rates.
On 14 January, the Taiwanese liner operator’s directors...
Omicron Reveals The Loopholes in Public Health Care
In Britain, omicron is causing cracks in the health system even though the variant appears to cause milder illness than its predecessors.
the Spanish government vowed not to let such a collapse happen...
BEMA Achieve Non-Governmental Organisation Consultative Status
BEMA has announced it received news from IMO that it has been granted Non-Governmental Organisation Consultative Status.
BEMA applied for NGO Consultative Status in March 2020.
With this recognition by IMO, BEMA is...
Maersk Tankers Establish Decarbonisation Hub
Maersk Tankers is establishing a knowledge hub focusing on decarbonisation.
The hub will be headed by Frederik Pind, Head of Decarbonisation at Maersk Tankers, and will be staffed by a specialist, cross-disciplinary team.
...
How China’s NFT Industry Operates in The Legal Gray Zone?
NFTs have no legal issues in China
China blocks all public blockchains like Ethereum
BSN network will use adapted blockchains from Ethereum and nine other platforms
Alibaba launched a collection of 16,000 NFT...
Google Stole Sonos’ Patented Innovations
Big Tech thus takes what it wants by benefiting from stealing IP
Sonos also sued Google at the International Trade Commission.
Legal scholars and policy wonks call it “efficient infringement.”
They created the “patent...
Ningbo Containerised Freight Index
Weekly composite index covering 20ft, 40ft and Hi Cube box rates says an article published in Baltic Exchange.
Ningbo Shipping Exchange
Route
2022-1-14
2021-1-7
Weekly change (%)
Ningbo - Europe
5903.18
5883.59
0.33
Ningbo - West Mediterranean
5830.32
5751.32
1.37
Ningbo - East Mediterranean
4557.74
4555.69
0.04
Ningbo - Middle East
3647.43
3637.51
0.27
The weeklyNingbo...
Asia Light Ends: Key Market Indicators For Jan 17-21
Asia's light ends were supported in early trade Jan. 17 by firmer crude oil futures, though gasoline demand was not yet in full swing even as fresh supply was seen from India and Malaysia,...