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The latest maritime and offshore news.


Thursday, January 23, 2020
Stock photo shows an oil tanker at a terminal
Shipping News

China Tax Changes Unlikely to Boost Marine Fuel Supply Until Q2

By Roslan Khasawneh and Muyu Xu SINGAPORE, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Chinese oil refiners are unlikely to boost their output of cleaner marine fuels until at

January 23, 2020
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lng carrier
Shipping News

Gas Export’s Dirty Secret: A Carbon Footprint Rivaling Coal’s

By Catherine Traywick, Stephen Cunningham, Naureen Malik and Dave Merrill (Bloomberg) –In May, while President Donald Trump toured a new $10 billion

January 23, 2020
Total Views: 133

singapore
Shipping News

Fuel Spread Narrows in Singapore as Low Sulphur Fuel Prices Drop

The price of low sulphur fuel oil has dropped steeply in recent weeks at the bunkering hub of Singapore in a sign that the bunker market is stabilizing

January 23, 2020
Total Views: 76

World’s First Carbon-Free Ammonia-Fueled Vessel Planned for 2024
Shipping News

World’s First Carbon-Free Ammonia-Fueled Vessel Planned for 2024

A new project looking to launch the world’s first ammonia-powered supply vessel has received major funding from the European Union, setting the stage for

January 23, 2020
Total Views: 222

The Next Big Thing in Luxury Cruising is Small Ships
Shipping News

The Next Big Thing in Luxury Cruising is Small Ships

By Fran Golden (Bloomberg) –One of the biggest trends in high-end cruising is extremely small. It’s the opposite, in some ways, of everything you’d

January 23, 2020
Total Views: 1012

containership ship bunkering
Shipping News

IMO’s Marine Fuel Rules Sets Shipping Industry for a Comeback in 2020 -IHS

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, Jan 23 (Reuters) – The global shipping market is set for a recovery, benefiting from new global rules on marine fuels that

January 23, 2020
Total Views: 98

Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Lawsuit Filed After Deadly Tanker Collision Near Galveston
Shipping News

Lawsuit Filed After Deadly Tanker Collision Near Galveston

The owners of the MT Odfjell Bow Fortune, the 600-foot tanker that collided with a fishing vessel near Galveston, Texas on January 14, has asked a Federal

January 22, 2020
Total Views: 145

Mumbai Maersk Containership
Shipping News

Maersk Raises Bunker Surcharge as Fuel Costs Spiral

By Firat Kayakiran and Jack Wittels (Bloomberg) –The world’s largest container shipping line is hiking up a fuel surcharge that it imposes to transport

January 22, 2020
Total Views: 288

IMO greenhouse gas emissions
Shipping

IMO Secretary-General Hails ‘Relatively Smooth’ IMO 2020 Transition

IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim says the implementation of new International rules limiting the sulphur content of fuel used by ships has gone relatively

January 22, 2020
Total Views: 65

McDermott International
Shipping News

McDermott International Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

(Reuters) – U.S. oilfield services provider McDermott International Inc said on Tuesday it would file for prepackaged bankruptcy protection under Chapter

January 22, 2020
Total Views: 126

container shipping
Shipping News

Container Lines Raising Rates to Offload Clean Fuel Cost

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) –Container-shipping companies, some of the biggest polluters of the world’s oceans, are managing to pass higher costs onto

January 22, 2020
Total Views: 52

happy lady tanker
Shipping News

Pirates Release ‘Happy Lady’ Crew Members

Pirates have released eight crew members kidnapped from the Greek tanker Happy Lady back in December as the vessel was anchored off the port of Limboh in

January 22, 2020
Total Views: 289

containership underway
Shipping News

Containership Comes Under Fire by Pirates Off Nigeria

Pirates off the coast of Nigeria chased and shot at a containership underway on Tuesday in the first reported piracy incident in the Gulf of Guinea region so

January 22, 2020
Total Views: 111

Floating Wind Farm Developer Seeks New Funding for Bigger Scale
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Floating Wind Farm Developer Seeks New Funding for Bigger Scale

By William Mathis (Bloomberg) –One of the most advanced developers of the growing floating wind farm business, Principle Power Inc., is seeking to raise

January 22, 2020
Total Views: 546

Tuesday, January 21, 2020
duke oil tanker
Piracy

Gulf of Guinea Pirates Release Crew Members Kidnapped from MT DUKE

Pirates have released nineteen crew members kidnapped from a tanker in Gulf of Guinea last month, the vessel’s owner says. Unfortunately, one crew member who

January 21, 2020
Total Views: 265

Kleven Verft to Get New Owners
Shipbuilding

Kleven Verft to Get New Owners

Croatian industrial group DIV Group has agreed to purchase Norwegian shipyard Kleven Verft from Hurtigruten. DIV Group is owner of Brodosplit, the largest

January 21, 2020
Total Views: 181

autonomous shipping
Shipping News

Norwegian Autonomous Ship Project Secures Major Funding

The European Union has provided more than 20 million euros to a pioneering project in Norway to advance autonomous ship technology. The funding, one of the

January 21, 2020
Total Views: 476

Oil tanker British Heritage sails in the Bosphorus, on its way to the Black Sea, in Istanbul
Shipping News

Canal Istanbul: Choppy Waters For Turkey’s Latest Megaproject

By Sinan Ulgen (Bloomberg Opinion) –Could a new infrastructure project shape the future of Turkish politics? That is one of the questions surrounding

January 21, 2020
Total Views: 331

Oil tankers pass through the Strait of Hormuz
Shipping News

South Korea to Deploy Anti-Piracy Unit to the Strait of Hormuz

By Sangmi Cha and Josh Smith SEOUL, Jan 21 (Reuters) – South Korea’s military said on Tuesday it plans to expand the deployment of an anti-piracy

January 21, 2020
Total Views: 89

Monday, January 20, 2020
asphault spirit tanker
Shipping News

Master Fined for Delayed Reporting of Main Engine Failure

The captain of a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker has been convicted and fined $3,000 AUD in Australia after waiting several hours to report that his ship had

January 20, 2020
Total Views: 156