Environmentalists & Shippers at Loggerhead Over ‘Great Lakes’ Ballast Regulations
An article in Bridge reports of a battle brewing between the shipping industry and environmentalists over efforts to extend ballast water regulations to “lakers” - freighters that do not leave the Great Lakes.
Importance of...
New Treaty To Protect Marine Biodiversity
The latest in a series of conferences to develop a legally binding international instrument, under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), on the conservation and ‘BBNJ’ was held at UN Headquarters...
Wärtsilä’s Auto Gasification Solution Designed To Reduce GHG Emissions
According to a ShipInsight article, Marine technology specialist Wärtsilä is to install an Auto Gasification solution for the Princess Cruises’ Regal Princess.
Princess Cruises is a Carnival Corporation brand operating as part of the Holland...
Is Digitalisation the Future of Vessel Operation and Performance?
Shipowners are in need of simple and user-friendly technologies to focus on operational and business requirements and the performance of systems.
EasyDrive makes a more intuitive connection rather than using several with a...
Lower Crude Prices Puts a Swell on the US Margins
US margins got a boost from lower crude prices, while distillate cracks stubbornly remained range-bound as the countdown to IMO 2020 marches forward, reports Platts.
Fall in crude prices
Crude prices fell last week on concerns...
CPPEC Bags Tender To Operate New LNG Import Terminal
A multinational consortium led by China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Co Ltd (CPPEC) has been selected to design, construct and operate new LNG import terminal at Cyprus.
The Chinese-led consortium will finalise the process...
Weekly Tanker Report – Week 35, 2019
The Baltic Briefing has issued the tanker report for the 35th week of this year. The report dated 30th August 2019 provides a valuable insight into this week's tanker market dealings, freight rates, and...
Impact of IMO 2020 on LNG Markets : Podcast
Recently, ICIS added to its website the below podcast in which ICIS shipping markets editor Clare Pennington and markets editor Robert Songer discuss the impact of the upcoming IMO 2020 shipping fuel regulations on...
V.Ships Boosting Its Box Ship Sector
V.Group the world’s leading independent ship management company says, digitalisation, market changes and the sulphur cap are boosting the role of shipmanagers in the container sector.
V.Ships has a growing box ship fleet at a...
Shipping Magnate Betting on Tanker Market Profitability As Shipping Becomes Expensive
According to an article written by Freight Waves, Senior Editor, Greig Miller, John Fredriksen, the world's most famous shipping magnate has made a very large bet that the IMO 2020 rule, which will cap...