Heritage Expeditions Releases Its New Flagship Vessel

Heritage Expeditions has released its new vessel, the Heritage Adventurer. According to a press release, the 140-guest Adventurer (formerly known as the MS Hanseatic) will make her maiden voyage on the company's first...

Amazon To Launch Its Annual Job Fair With 55,000 Vacancies

Amazon.com Inc is planning to hire 55,000 people for corporate and technology roles globally. That’s equal to more than a third of Google’s  headcount as of June 30, and close to all of...

GTT Bags First Order From Jiangnan

GTT confirmed it has secured a contract from China’s Jiangnan Shipyard to work on Jovo’s new carrier. This is the GTT’s first order for a membrane LNGC from Jiangnan. French LNG containment giant GTT...

Crowley Charters Shell For Building & Operations Of LNG Bunker Barge

Crowley Maritime Corporation has signed a long-term time charter with Shell providing for the building and operation of a LNG bunker barge.  With a capacity of 12,000 cubic meters, it will be the...

US Gulf Coast Refiners Works On Compensating Ida’s Damages

The effect of widespread refinery closures in Louisiana will reverberate in the Gulf coast fuel market in the coming weeks. ExxonMobil Baton Rouge was the first shut-in refinery in Louisiana to announce a...

OPEC+ Keeps Production in Place Amid Surging Oil Prices

OPEC+ has decided to keep its production plans in place, reports OilPrice.com quoting OPEC. Falling crude oil inventories The previous—and current—plan is for the group to add 400,000 barrels per day in output for its members...

Long COVID Affects Upto 1 in 7 Kids Months After infection, Says Study

Up to one in seven children who test positive for coronavirus could still have symptoms linked to the disease three months later, according to a study. The study suggests the prevalence of long...

Fujitsu & NYK Aim Stowage Planning With ‘Quantum-inspired’ Technology

Fujitsu’s quantum-inspired Digital Annealer technology offers global shipping company, NYK, an innovative tool to streamline complex stowage planning for large car carriers Combinatorial optimization algorithm automates key stages of process to reduce time...

Shipowners To Spend £600bn To Meet Green Targets

Global shipping faces £600billion bill to meet green targets the IMO set plans aimed at cutting the carbon intensity of all ships by at least 40% by 2030 only 12% of new-build ships...

China Steps In To Control Brutal ‘996’ Work Culture

Many young workers in some of China's biggest firms work brutal '996 hours' - 9 am to 9 pm, six days a week. Many delivery workers in China say they are underpaid and...