Reduce Your Bunker Bills With Wartsila’s Solution

Wartsila Launches Ultra Slow Steaming Bulker Concept In June 2015, Wärtsilä started a project called BUSSER – Ultra Slow Steaming Bulker Concept.  This concept has...

Record Break In Container Cargo Volume

Port of Long Beach breaks September container cargo volume record. Port of Long Beach sees tremendous growth as activities are returning to its pre-recession times.  The...

Peru And Panama Added As New Members Of Tokyo MOU

Putrajaya, Malaysia hosted the 26th meeting of the Port State Control Committee.  It was held between 5th and 8th October.  The Tokyo MOU was concluded in December...

Hong Kong Shipping Register Crosses 100 Million Tonnage

The Hong Kong Shipping Register (HKSR) set up on December 3, 1990, with a Gross Tonnage of 6 million at the time, is the...

Shippers Prefer LNG To Power Their Vessels

Last month TOTE Inc., a shipper that operates between the U.S. and the Caribbean, launched the World’s second massive container ship fuelled by liquefied...

Problem Fuels Supplied In Russian Ports

In the last 3 months, 4 cases of problems fuels causing damage to machinery have been reported.  These fuels have been bunkered in the...

World Requires More LNG Bunkers at Ports

Jacob Høgh Thygesen, Director, Merchant Ship Design Solutions with Wärtsilä opines that making available LNG fuel bunkers at ports is a prime necessity.  According...

London Metal Exchange Propose to Buyout Baltic Exchange

The LME has approached the Baltic Exchange for a takeover bid. The Baltic Exchange is the world's only independent source of maritime market information for...

World’s First Guide For SOx Scrubber Ready Vessels

Classification society ABS has come up with the world’s first guide for SOx scrubber ready vessels.  This comes at a time when more emphasis...

Most Modern Icebreaker To Use Wärtsilä 31 Engines

Guinness World Records have acknowledged Wärtsilä 31 engine as the world’s most efficient 4-stroke diesel engine.  It will power a state-of-the-art new generation icebreaker...