A Snapshot of Shipping Markets – More Countries Ban Open Loop Scrubbers
China has banned discharge of Wash Water from Open-loop scrubber starting this year. This echoes Singapore’s initiatives to be in effect from 1 Jan 2020.
P&I club Gard warns that additional countries are...
Weekly Maritime Security Report – Week 4, 2019
Protection Vessel Weekly has published this week's maritime security report. We are into the 4th week of this year and the report shows the various security concerns in the maritime industry. The report was...
Re-imagining Ocean-Based Transportation, Food, and Ecosystem Services
Ocean-based economies must be reevaluated to ensure system productivity and sustained services.
Increased global human activity and carbonized development are lowering the output from ocean-based services.
Since 2008, bulk freight rates have dropped...
Tanker Report – Week 4, 2019
The Baltic Briefing has released a report about the tanker market of the 4th week of shipping activities of this year. The report dated 25th January highlights the plight of the tanker market at...
JLA Media Appoints Levett to Lead Oil & Gas
Neil Levett has joined JLA's Media team as Lead Consultant for its newly-established Oil & Gas division, taking responsibility for a fast-growing part of the organisation’s PR and communications activities.
Why this new role?
The role...
Bulk Report – Week 4, 2019
The weekly highlights of the Baltic Briefing are here. This report showcases the bulk carrier market scenario of week 4 of 2019 which has been compiled on 25th January.
Capesize
A week of dashed hopes for...
How Should Shippers Prepare? 6 Questions About IMO 2020
Responsibility to comply with IMO regulations will be on carriers. Many would opt for scrapping rather than retrofitting due to high cost involved.
Ocean freight rates would probably increase, and shippers should prepare...
Containerships’ First LNG-Fuelled Ship Sets Sail
World's first LNG fuelled vessel Containerships Nord completed its maiden voyage in the port of Rotterdam.
CMA CGM’s is expected to take delivery of three more 1,400-TEU vessels capable of LNG bunkering keeping in tune...
Massive Crane Crashes onto Container Ship
The Transportation Safety Board has decided to deploy a team of investigators to the Port of Vancouver following the collapse of a large crane onto a loaded container vessel.
What happened?
The ship 'Ever Summit' struck a gantry...
Ships Beware! Bulker and Product Tanker Attacked by Pirates
On January 24, a bulk carrier and product tanker were attacked by pirates in South of Brass near Nigeria.
What happened?
The bulk carrier was approached by around five to seven armed pirates in a skiff....