[Watch] HH Ferries Group Wins the Prestigious Baltic Sea Clean Maritime Award 2017

HH Ferries Group has received the prestigious Baltic Sea Clean Maritime Award 2017 at the 8th annual forum of the EU Strategy for the...

Allianz: Improved Safety is Decreasing Large Shipping Losses

Large shipping losses went down by 50% over the past decade and 16% year-on-year to 85 in 2016, a report by Allianz Global Corporate...

DNV GL Charts GHG Emissions Scenarios

Class society DNV GL has published a report assessing the potential for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction from shipping towards 2050, based on a...

CMA CGM to Acquire MERCOSUL from Maersk Line

CMA CGM and Maersk Line have announced that they have entered into a binding agreement whereby CMA CGM would acquire Mercosul Line, one of...

Ship-to-Ship Bunkering with World’s First LNG Bunkering Vessel

The bunkering vessel ENGIE Zeebrugge performed in the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium, its first deliveries of LNG (liquefied natural gas) as a marine fuel...

The Electric, Driverless Revolution is About to Hit High Seas

The fully electric, zero emissions YARA Birkeland container ship will set sail next year in Europe. By 2019 it will be able to work...

LPG Tanker on Fire

On June 13, Fire reportedly erupted in superstructure of LPG tanker Amelia 1, anchored on Makassar Anchorage, South Sulawesi. The fire reportedly started off in...

Adrift Oil Tanker’s 2 Million Barrels Highlight Oil Glut

If a single ship can capture the current state of the global oil, it's the supertanker Saiq, floating idly about 528 miles south of...

Scrapping Slowdown Puts Charter Rate Recovery at Risk

The slowing pace of container ship scrapping since the beginning of the year is putting the recovery in charter rates at risk, according to...

MARPOL Annex V: Banning Discharge of Plastic and Garbage from Ships

This is our third and final article in our series focussing on the growing problem of plastics in the oceans. Here we focus on...