IMO 2020: Boxship Scrubber Retrofits To Surge

A recent survey shows a fairly large chunk of the boxship fleet to head into repair yards in the coming months leading up to...

Weekly Tanker Report – Week 18, 2019

The Baltic Briefing has issued the tanker report for the 18th week of this year. The report dated 3rd May 2019 provides a valuable insight...

Can Oil Companies Cater To IMO 2020 VLSFO Demands?

Petrobras has just produced and supplied its first batch of IMO 2020-compliant marine fuel, it is capable of producing 45,000-barrel per day. Sulfur...

Maersk First To Offer Digital Ocean Customs Clearance

Maersk has launched Customs Clearance online shipping management platform in seven European countries - Germany, France, Denmark, The Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom, and Spain. ...

Pirates Hijack Blue Marlin! Vessel Recovered and Crew Freed

A Royal Boskalis Westminster heavy transport vessel has been recovered and the crew freed after being hijacked on Sunday about 80 miles offshore Equatorial...

How AI Can Help in Ship Navigation?

The risk of the collision remains a challenge, with up to 3,000 such incidents reported annually. A new entrant to the market, Orca...

More Propane and Hydrocarbon Gas Liquids To Transit the Expanded Panama Canal

In June 2016, the Panama Canal Authority, the body that operates the Panama Canal, opened the third set of locks that facilitated the transit of...

PSC Issues Guidelines To Prepare Crews for IMO 2020 Spot Sampling

In light of the 2020 sulphur cap, the frequency of PSC taking spot samples of a ship’s fuel oil to verify its sulphur content...

Wartsila Solutions To Make Sovcomflot’s Arctic Tankers More Efficient

In a recent development, the technology group Wärtsilä has announced that they have been contracted by Sovcomflot, Russia’s largest shipping company, to roll out...

Wärtsilä’s Cruise Waste-To-Energy Solutions To Reduce Carbon Footprint

Gone are the days when taking care of the environment was purely an altruistic venture. Sustainability, these days, has become intrinsically linked to profitability...