Baltic Exchange publishes the weekly Ningbo Containerised Freight Index, compiled by the Ningbo Shipping Exchange. Weekly composite index covering 20ft, 40ft and Hi Cube box rates by Ningbo Shipping Exchange: The weekly Ningbo Containerised Freight Index is compiled...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is "optimistic" people will be able to have summer holidays this year - but it depends on certain things going well. The success of the vaccine rollout...

De Nora Marine Technologies has pioneered a method of electrochlorination ballast water treatment. The disinfectant that eliminates aquatic invasive species is generated from a low flow, separate water supply to the actual ballast...

Qatar Petroleum pursues to replace its existing bunker fuel for ships with LNG in a phased manner. It will significantly reduce QP’s total shipping emissions in the LNG value chain by around 28%. ...

Platts has launched a new dry bulk weighted average index – APSI 5 – for Supramax class bulkers, effective February 1, 2021. Platts is the leading independent provider of information, analytics and benchmark...

INTERCARGO and RightShip are founding partners of DryBMS, a quality standard for the dry bulk sector. Safety, environmental  and operational excellence are promoted through company self-assessment. Both RightShip and INTERCARGO have strongly and consistently...

  Thirteen people missing for a week in waters off Papua New Guinea after their boat broke down have been found alive with the help of Australia's maritime safety watchdog, reports Star News. Ferry in trouble The...

The Britannia P&I Club, in its BSafe campaign, reports the incident where an AB had a fatal fall from a portable ladder onboard a product tanker. The AB was conducting maintenance work on the launching...

Euronav has switched its buying focus from VLCCs to suezmaxes, writes Sam Chambers for Splash247. Euronav swoops for resales Clarksons Research reports that the Belgian tanker giant has swooped for two resales at Daehan Shipyard, originally...

The unexpected demand recovery in the container shipping sector driven primarily by the US-based demand surge has seen the charter market depleted of available capacity, reports Offshore Energy. Increase in delays due to demand upturn The...