Merchant Shipping Lacks Safety Net as GPS Disruptions Intensify
Weak GPS signals can be easily disrupted by conflicting signals or spoofed to throw ships off course.
250,000+ incidences of disruption detected by Strike3 between January 2016 and December 2017.
Commercial ship owners...
Norden Starts the First Commercial Test Voyage of a Ship using Bio-Fuel
Highlights
DS Norden has agreed to commercially test the CO2-neutral bio-fuel on its vessel 'Nord Highlander'
Biofuel for the commercial test operation will be provided by Good Fuels
The ships need not have their...
The Next Generation of Complete Shipping Solutions?
Highlights
Shipping software called MARiS to offer next generation of complete commercial shipping solutions
MARiS’ architecture allows companies to adopt literally every single system logic and behavior
Promises to deliver flexible functionalities based on...
Container Ship Attacked, Cocaine Shipment Busted
On December 2, a container ship was attacked by armed criminals on Santos outer Anchorage, Brazil.
What happened?
The container ship 'Cap San Marco' was attacked and boarded by five armed criminals who approached it via a...
Majority of IMO 2020 Compliant Bunker Demand to be Met by MGO, LSFO: IBIA...
Compliance to IMO 2020 expected to be high with 95% compliant fuel demand met with MGO and LSFO.
Scrubbers uptake likely to remain limited by 2022 or 2023 with about 3,800 shipst which...
Shale Gluts and Ship Rules Make Heavy Sweet Oil an Unlikely Star
The recent trends noticed in shale guts and shipping rules are making heavy sweet oil a rising star.
Heavy Sweet Crude
Dense, low-sulfur oil, known in industry parlance as heavy sweet crude, is fetching increasingly stronger...
Digital Defence to Counter Cyber Crimes at Sea
DNV GL is seeking to reduce the cyber risk at sea by offering digital defence IT solutions.
The cyber security system is important as operational technology cyber attacks had increased doubled from 2013...
Markets – It’s Time for Aframaxes to Shine
The North Sea and Baltic Aframaxes have experienced a much firmer market when fixing cargoes with December laycans.
The upward trend to continue
Fearnleys has predicted this trend to continue as there is an imbalance in...
Seanergy Sells Off Two Supramax Vessels
Seanergy sold M/V Gladiatorship and M/V Guardianship for $23m in October 2018.
179,759 dwt Capesize dry bulk vessel, M/V Fellowship purchased for $28.7m as well.
A senior loan facility used by Seanergy to...
Sellers Started Playing Contango on LNG
The LNG market is changing as demand rises and the storage ways are changing.
Floating storage has become the norm, with 30 vessels currently flagged as floating storage globally.
Companies like Glencore, Vitol...