Monday, June 11, 2018
ship emissions
News

Shipping’s 2020 Low Sulphur Fuel Regulation to Hit Airlines

By Alex Longley and Benjamin Katz (Bloomberg) — From the window of a jet plane, it can be hard to see ships crawling across the seas. Yet what’s

June 11, 2018
Total Views: 135

hapag-lloyd ship
News

Hapag-Lloyd Scaling Back Iran Business

FRANKFURT, June 11 (Reuters) – German shipping line Hapag-Lloyd has stopped one of two feeder services to Iran and will decide on the remaining one

June 11, 2018
Total Views: 26

Inmarsat Soars After Satellite Company Rejects EchoStar Bid
News

Inmarsat Soars After Satellite Company Rejects EchoStar Bid

By Kim Robert McLaughlin (Bloomberg) — Inmarsat Plc rose as much as 12 percent after the British satellite company last week said it had rebuffed a

June 11, 2018
Total Views: 18

Sunday, June 10, 2018
Team AkzoNobel Newport
Blog

What Can Merchant Mariners Learn From Volvo Ocean Race Sailors?

Last month gCaptain was invited by John Mangano, Key Account Manager – Coastal & Navy for International Paint, to Newport, Rhode Island to board

June 10, 2018
Total Views: 110

China Overshadowing USA
Defense

China’s Naval Master Plan: A Military Threat In The Pacific And Beyond

(This is the first in a series of columns Bloomberg is publishing on China’s effort to supplant the U.S. as the world’s pre-eminent geopolitical

June 10, 2018
Total Views: 85

John Fredriksen-Run Hedge Fund Making Millions on Oil’s Recovery
Offshore

John Fredriksen-Run Hedge Fund Making Millions on Oil’s Recovery

  By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — A hedge fund run by a former associate of billionaire John Fredriksen has gained 69 percent in two years

June 10, 2018
Total Views: 56

Italy Shuts Ports to Humanitarian Boat Carrying Hundreds of Migrants
Shipping News

Italy Shuts Ports to Humanitarian Boat Carrying Hundreds of Migrants

By Crispian Balmer ROME, June 10 (Reuters) – Italy will refuse to let a humanitarian ship carrying more than 600 migrants dock at its ports and has

June 10, 2018
Total Views: 30

Friday, June 8, 2018
Next Offshore Wind in U.S. Can Compete With Gas, Developer Says
News

Next Offshore Wind in U.S. Can Compete With Gas, Developer Says

By Jim Efstathiou Jr. (Bloomberg) — Massive offshore wind turbines keep getting bigger, and that’s helping make the power cheaper — to the point

June 8, 2018
Total Views: 81

inmarsat london headquarters
Shipping News

Inmarsat Rejects Lowball Takeover Bid from EchoStar

By Nick Turner (Bloomberg) — Inmarsat Plc rebuffed a takeover proposal from EchoStar Corp., saying the bid undervalued the British satellite company and

June 8, 2018
Total Views: 28

seadrill rig
Shipping News

Bankrupt Seadrill Anticipates Emerging from Chapter 11 in July

Bankrupt offshore drilling contractor Seadrill has announced that it anticipates emerge from the chapter 11 process in the first half of July 2018 upon

June 8, 2018
Total Views: 20

bonny nigeria lng. photo REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye
Shipping News

Nigeria Needs $12 Billion to Avoid Missing the LNG Boat

By Paul Wallace, Paul Burkhardt and Elisha Bala-Gbogbo (Bloomberg) — On a tropical island just off the coast of Nigeria, hundreds of engineers

June 8, 2018
Total Views: 171

ONE Container ship
News

ONE Joins Rivals in Introducing Emergency Bunker Fuel Surcharge

Freshly-minted Japanese container shipping line Ocean Network Express (ONE) has become the latest box line to introduce an emergency bunker fuel surcharge due

June 8, 2018
Total Views: 71

Stena Line to Use Artificial Intelligence Technology to Reduce Fuel Consumption
Shipping News

Stena Line to Use Artificial Intelligence Technology to Reduce Fuel Consumption

European shipping company Stena Line has partnered a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Hitachi to implement artificial intelligence technology on ships, marking the

June 8, 2018
Total Views: 132

cosco shipping at port of long beach
Shipping News

Retail Imports Expected to Hit Record Numbers this Summer Despite Tariff Threat

Imports at the United States’ major retail container ports are expected to set record numbers this summer and fall even as the debate over trade and tariffs

June 8, 2018
Total Views: 42

China’s Waste Ban Hits Asian Ports
News

China’s Waste Ban Hits Asian Ports

By Sam Whelan, Asia correspondent (The Loadstar) – Port operations in South-east Asia have come under increasing pressure from a build-up in scrap

June 8, 2018
Total Views: 21

Greek Shipowners Say EU Tax Pressure Could Make Brexit ‘Not a Bad Thing’
Shipping News

Greek Shipowners Say EU Tax Pressure Could Make Brexit ‘Not a Bad Thing’

ATHENS, June 8 (Reuters) – Greek shipowners could relocate to Britain after it leaves the European Union if European regulators demand changes to

June 8, 2018
Total Views: 41

Thursday, June 7, 2018
tanker aerial
News

Venezuela’s PDVSA Takes First Step to Ease Huge Oil Export Backlog

  By Marianna Parraga and Mircely Guanipa HOUSTON/PUNTO FIJO, Venezuela, June 7 (Reuters) – Venezuela has begun testing seaborne oil transfers

June 7, 2018
Total Views: 28

Concerned Sailors Warn of Unlit Drydock Sections Floating Around Bermuda
Interesting

Concerned Sailors Warn of Unlit Drydock Sections Floating Around Bermuda

A group of Bermuda government officials and concerned yachting professionals are warning about recent sightings of at least two large sections of an unlit dry

June 7, 2018
Total Views: 448

U.S. East Coast Dockworkers Agree to New Six-Year Master Contract After ‘Tough’ Negotiations
News

U.S. East Coast Dockworkers Agree to New Six-Year Master Contract After ‘Tough’ Negotiations

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – Shippers are breathing a sigh of relief after US east and Gulf coast dock workers reached “tentative”

June 7, 2018
Total Views: 90

Chemical tanker, Oil tanker. Photo: By Matej Kastelic / Shutterstock
News

Here Are the Commodities Most Likely Affected by U.S.-China Trade Talks

  By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — American crude drillers, coal miners and farmers are set to be among the beneficiaries of the Trump

June 7, 2018
Total Views: 31