To clearly understand how seasonality affects the market dynamics of the shipping industry, the Shipping Intelligent Network has analyzed the maritime market in their latest article. Here's an excerpt from that. Backpage Image In 2018 the...

Mawani recently launched the integrated shipment scheduling system at King Abdul Aziz port. Clients can now electronically schedule an appointment and choose their carrier. All of which can save time down to only 17 minutes at...

Vale has reached an agreement with Brazilian authority to resume operation of four previously halted pellet plants in Tubarao, Brazil. It is expected to suffer a shortfall of 40 million mt per year in...

ClassNK released a new version PrimeShip-HULL (HCSR) incorporating the updated rules and regulations. PrimeShip-HULL (HCSR) creates reports for multiple sectional data, change output settings in detail, enable the sorting of reports by section, and...

Around half a dozen of midstream companies and joint ventures are clamoring to build deepwater loading terminals on the Gulf of Mexico, reports RBNEnergy. Now the question remains why Mexico and how will it be...

In a major development, Parsippany, N.J. based CR Ocean Engineering, LLC, has announced that they have been awarded a contract for exhaust gas scrubbers by a major U.S. based shipping company, reports MarineLog. Why is...

Open Loop scrubbers have faced opposition prompted by fears that the discharge from these scrubbers is polluting the Ocean and degrading marine life. This has caused concern amongst some nations who have banned them....

A month after the hydrex workers removed the bow thruster of a 300-meter container vessel their men once again mobilized to Italy. They reinstalled the overhauled unit underwater with the use of our flexible...

    A Turkish merchant ship became stranded against rocks off the shore of Bari, Italy, reports The Australian. What happened? The Turkish merchant ship departed from Ortona on Feb. 22 and was heading to Turkey's Aliağa Port...

IBIA sat for a PPR 6 session discussion on issues pertaining to 0.50% sulphur cap at the IMO headquarter this week. The  suggestions from this session are up for further scrutiny at the...