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Monday, April 30, 2018
Tug Towing Iceberg
Interesting

The Guy Who Raised the Costa Concordia Wants to Wrangle Icebergs to Help Cape Town’s Water Crisis

By Tanisha Heiberg JOHANNESBURG, April 30 (Reuters) – Marine salvage experts are floating a plan to tug icebergs from Antarctica to South Africa’s

April 30, 2018
Total Views: 238

Thwaites Glacier.Credit: NSF photo
News

Scientists Study Antarctic Glacier, Hoping to Crack Sea Level Risks

OSLO, April 30 (Reuters) – Britain and the United States launched a $25 million project on Monday to study the risks of a collapse of a giant glacier in

April 30, 2018
Total Views: 51

offshore wind turbines
News

Taiwan Emerging as Battleground to Expand Offshore Wind in Asia

By Stine Jacobsen COPENHAGEN, April 30 (Reuters) – Taiwan is becoming the next battleground for the world’s top offshore wind developers as

April 30, 2018
Total Views: 74

Saturday, April 28, 2018
Australia And Canada To Monitor North Korean Ships
Defense

Australia And Canada To Monitor North Korean Ships

By Alison Bevege SYDNEY, April 28 (Reuters) – Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Saturday the country will send a military patrol

April 28, 2018
Total Views: 61

Friday, April 27, 2018
Ships at anchor off Singapore.
News

Singapore Extends Compulsory Use of Flow Meters to Distillate Barges

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, April 27 (Reuters) – Singapore will extend the mandatory use of mass-flow-meters to bunker barges delivering

April 27, 2018
Total Views: 46

Thursday, April 26, 2018
baltic exchange
News

Baltic Exchange to Launch New Container Shipping Index

LONDON, April 25 (Reuters) – London’s Baltic Exchange is developing a container shipping index with Hong Kong-headquartered group Freightos in

April 26, 2018
Total Views: 103

Ship-to-ship bunkering off Singapore.
News

Singapore to Announce Mandatory Flow Meters for Bunkering Vessels -Source

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, April 26 (Reuters) – Singapore’s Maritime Port Authority (MPA) is set to announce it is making use of

April 26, 2018
Total Views: 56

bulk-ship-loading-grain
Shipping News

Another Bulker Is Stranded As Grain War Heats Up

by Josephine Mason (Reuters) – A vessel carrying 70,223 tonnes of sorghum from the United States to Asia switched its destination on Thursday, data

April 26, 2018
Total Views: 170

Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Incident Video: Bulk Carrier Crashes Into Dock at Argentine Grain Hub
News

Incident Video: Bulk Carrier Crashes Into Dock at Argentine Grain Hub

Update: Shipping agent Marítima Heinlein S.A. has issued the following statement on the incident: Regret to inform you that on 24th/April around 2315 hrs, the

April 25, 2018
Total Views: 269

Singapore Awards $1.1 Billion Contract for Phase 2 of Tuas Mega-Port Project
News

Singapore Awards $1.1 Billion Contract for Phase 2 of Tuas Mega-Port Project

By Aradhana Aravindan and Henning Gloystein SINGAPORE, April 25 (Reuters) – Singapore on Wednesday announced a $1.1 billion plan to expand and modernise

April 25, 2018
Total Views: 410

Singapore Bunker Fuel Market Rallies on Tight Supplies, Quality Issues
News

Singapore Bunker Fuel Market Rallies on Tight Supplies, Quality Issues

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, April 25 (Reuters) – The Singapore fuel oil market has rallied this week as inventories have dropped at the same time that

April 25, 2018
Total Views: 28

baltic exchange offices
News

Baltic Exchange Sets Course Towards Grains, Gas and Even Air Freight

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, April 25 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange, owned by Singapore Exchange, plans to launch new indexes for grains, gas and

April 25, 2018
Total Views: 102

Tuesday, April 24, 2018
bulk carrier
News

China-Bound U.S. Sorghum Cargoes Diverted to Saudi Arabia, Japan

By Maha El Dahan and Karl Plume DUBAI/CHICAGO, April 24 (Reuters) – Four U.S. sorghum shipments initially bound for China have been diverted to other

April 24, 2018
Total Views: 38

containership
News

Wartsila Misses Earnings Expectations Amid Geopolitical Uncertainty; Eyes Rolls-Royce Marine Business

HELSINKI, April 24 (Reuters) – Finnish ship technology and power plant maker Wartsila missed first-quarter earnings expectations on Tuesday and said

April 24, 2018
Total Views: 38

bunkering
Shipping News

Port of Rotterdam May Start Ship-to-Ship LNG Bunkering in June

SINGAPORE, April 24 (Reuters) – The port of Rotterdam expects to see its first ship-to-ship (STS) liquefied natural gas (LNG) refuelling operation in

April 24, 2018
Total Views: 74

china home-built aircraft carrier
Defense

China’s 1st New Aircraft Carrier To Start Sea Trials

  by Ben Blanchard (Reuters) China first domestically developed aircraft carrier looks set to begin sea trials after pictures appeared on the Chinese

April 24, 2018
Total Views: 37

Monday, April 23, 2018
china home-built aircraft carrier
Defense

China’s First Home-Built Aircraft Carrier Looks Set to Start Sea Trials

BEIJING, April 23 (Reuters) – China first domestically developed aircraft carrier looks set to begin sea trials after pictures appeared on the Chinese

April 23, 2018
Total Views: 31

Subsea 7 stock photo
Offshore

Subsea 7 Makes $2 Billion Hostile Bid to Break Up McDermott’s U.S. Deal

By Nerijus Adomaitis OSLO, April 23 (Reuters) – Offshore oil services firm Subsea 7 has made an unsolicited offer worth about $2 billion for U.S.

April 23, 2018
Total Views: 117

Sunday, April 22, 2018
A Chinese flag is seen in front of the Friendship bridge over the Yalu River connecting the North Korean town of Sinuiju and Dandong in China
Navy

China Navy Drills In Pacific As Tensions Rise

by Adam Jourdan (Reuters) – Chinese naval forces have passed through waters south of Taiwan and carried out military exercises in the western Pacific,

April 22, 2018
Total Views: 31

hapag-lloyd ship
Environment

Hapag-Lloyd To Cut 20 Percent In CO2 Emissions By 2020

by Vera Eckert (Reuters) – German container shipping firm Hapag-Lloyd plans a 20 percent reduction in its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2020,

April 22, 2018
Total Views: 28