Surging Chinese Oil Demand Pushes Shipping Costs Sharply Higher
China is on an oil-supertanker hiring spree, a sign energy demand has sped up after the world’s second-largest economy limped out of its Covid-19...
UN Needs Extra Funding To Remove Oil From Stricken Yemeni Tanker
The UN Development Program announced on 9 March that it had secured the purchase of a very large crude carrier (VLCC) from Belgian...
Weekly Tanker Report – Week 11, 2023
Baltic Exchange has issued the tanker report for the 11th week of this year. The report of 17th March 2023 provides valuable insight into...
Crew Development Seminar in India: With The Theme, “Changing Forward”
K Marine Ship Management Pte. Ltd. (KMSM), a ship management company that is part ofthe Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (“K” LINE) group, held a...
Is It A Boat Versus Ship Situation? How Are They Different?
One of the worst cruising faux pas is referring to a cruise ship as a boat. Without realising it, we've all overheard a first-time...
New Study Shows Noise Reduction from Retrofitted Shipping Vessels
Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have been eavesdropping on the marine soundscape for decades to study the ecology of marine...
Weekly Bulk Report – Week 11, 2023
The Baltic Exchange has released a report about the dry bulk market for the 11th week of shipping activities this year. The report dated...
Vessel For Sale: Far Sabre
The AHTS Far Sabre has been sold by Solstad Rederi AS, a fully owned subsidiary of Solstad Offshore ASA (Solstad Offshore, OSE: SOFF).
Since 2019,...
India to Dubai, Tanker Giants Sprout from Nowhere To Keep Russian Oil Moving
The two locations are listed on an international maritime database
Both firms have numerous ships in their fleets covered by one of the...
The First Alliance Service on The Tradelane To Be Officially Culled
After successive weeks of blanking its AE1/Shogun Asia-North Europe loop, the 2M Alliance has finally confirmed that the service is to be suspended. It...