The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is offering more marine fuel futures contracts, reports Ship&Bunker. The company first started marketing the contracts in February. Rotterdam barges vs NWE cargoes Among the new products are a Rotterdam-based fuel oil differential...

Woodside Petroleum said a 4mn t/yr LNG market could be created if all of iron ore producers switch their iron ore carriers to LNG.  LNG-fuelled ships will deliver to many ports across northeast...

South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) said that it has developed a lithium-ion battery power system for ships, reports Marine Link.  First local Shipbuilder  A press release from the shipbuilding giant said that the system,...

Enterprise Asia organised the 11th chapter of the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards (APEA) 2019 Singapore. Leading the list of winners was Goodwood Ship Management, which received the award under the Corporate Excellence category for...

Pirates have kidnapped eight crew members of a German-owned ship in a raid on the vessel off the coast of Cameroon, reports Euronews. The ship is owned by a Hamburg-based company. Emergency Team MC-Schiffahrt said in a...

A passenger on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship went overboard while in the Virgin Islands on Wednesday morning, reports Maritime Executive. Passenger over the side  In the early hours of Wednesday morning, an individual aboard the...

Thales organised a round-table event, ‘Charting a course to autonomy - what is the future of the UK maritime industry?’. There, many challenges and future prospects of using AI and autonomous ships were discussed....

Wilhelmsen Ship Management (WSM) has announced that they have been selected as the technical manager for the Stove Shipping AS (Stove) vessels, Stove Friend and Stove Tide, says an article published in their website. The...

The LNG as a bunker subject matter experts behind the research have collected vital statistics on the market share, size and growth as a way to help stakeholders, business owners and field marketing personnel...

More than 3 million barrels of sludge-like high sulphur fuel is burnt by the tens of thousands of ships sailing the world’s oceans every single day.  With less than six months to go before the...