Seafarers Stranded Due To Trade Row
Ritesh Kumar, the second engineer on MV Skopelos I, and his vessel have been in the anchorage at Bayuquan, China, since September loaded with Australian coal. Since Beijing has banned Australian coal imports, his...
DHL Services Continue Strong Unaffected by Disruption
DHL services in Ireland will not suffer any major impact as a result of the disruption in Great Britain.
This afternoon, the company announced a temporary suspension of their road-based services to and...
Wartsila To Retrofit 3 LPG Ships With Their LPG Fuel Supply System
In a major development, the technology group Wärtsilä’s industry leading R&D investments in enabling liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to become a viable marine fuel has resulted in a further order for the company’s LPG...
US- Asia Pacific Arbitrage Drives VLGC Demand & Rates
According to an Argus Media report, arbitrage economics between the US and the Asia-Pacific region must remain attractive to support Very large gas carriers (VLGCs) freight rates at the higher levels recorded in the...
Onboard World’s First Fully Electric Zero Emission Container Vessel
According to a Hard article written by their Senior Loss Prevention Executive Jarle Fosen, the year ahead looks forward to growing zero emission trends as witnessed by Fosen in a visit to the Yara...
$80 Billion Worth Cocaine Found in A Boat Washed Up Ashore
Police in the Marshall Islands have found their biggest drug haul ever, in an abandoned boat washed ashore on a small atoll.
It's thought the vessel might have drifted across the Pacific Ocean...
The Bittersweet Memories Of A Navy Chaplain’s Christmas At Sea
Benny Hornsby writes as he recalls spending at least 10 Christmases underway at sea or on a ship in a port so far away that even Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer couldn’t find it. It...
Shipping’s Oldest Mode Emerged Stronger in Tumultuous 2020
Global shipping has most of the key fundamentals in place for its transformation in the years ahead. In fact, Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, DNV GL’s ceo – Maritime, goes further.
He believes that the challenges...
New Challenges Ahead in 2021, Ship Owners Prepared
Shipping’s resilience has been tested this year, but a low orderbook does not save a market and the immediate future is riddled with uncertainty.
Mid-term, the business models that survived this year may...
Anglo-Eastern Sees Five Major Challenges As Its Top Goals
Anglo-Eastern Ship management chief information officer Torbjorn Dimblad said Anglo-Eastern has had to quickly adapt its ship management practices in the global pandemic.
Under normal circumstances, Anglo-Eastern would visit each ship under its...