News Flash
IMO Says Transition To LSFO Went Extremely Smooth With Only 55 FONAR Reports
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Date: Jan 30, 2021
The transition to low sulphur in fuel oil in 2020 saw only 55 cases of 0.50% compliant fuel being u...
Grimaldi Welcomes 3rd Hybrid RO-RO Vessel Into The Fleet
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Date: Jan 30, 2021
Eco Livorno, the third of twelve hybrid vessels of the Grimaldi Green 5th Generation (GG5...
US Shipbuilders Show Support For Biden Following ‘Buy American’ Executive Order
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Date: Jan 29, 2021
US shipbuilders and the offshore sector have added their support to new US President Biden this as ...
MOL Sends Its First LNG Carrier To The Breakers
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Date: Jan 29, 2021
Japanese shipowner Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has bid farewell to the first and oldest LNG carrier in i...
Italy & France Pull The Plug On Fincantieri’s Takeover Of Chantiers De l’Atlantique
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Date: Jan 29, 2021
The planned mega-merger between Italian shipbuilding major Fincantieri with its French counterpart ...
Wartsila’s Marine New Orders Decline 23% In 2020
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Date: Jan 29, 2021
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and a slump in shipbuilding contracting resulted in Wartsila’...
Alfa Laval Joins Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center For Zero Carbon Shipping
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Date: Jan 29, 2021
Alfa Laval has joined the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping to work on the d...
Huge Shift Underway To LNG As A Fuel To Reduce Emissions
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Date: Jan 28, 2021
LNG as a transition fuel to reduce CO2 emissions is fast gaining traction as is evidenced by a grow...
Biden Backs The Jones Act In A New Executive Order
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Date: Jan 28, 2021
The U.S. President Joseph R. Biden, who took office just a week ago, is powering through very busy ...
Kanfer Shipping AS Signs LOI For Two Small-Scale LNG Bunker Vessels
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Date: Jan 28, 2021
Kanfer Shipping AS (“Kanfer”), the Norway-based shipping company focusing on small-scale LNG se...
Shell Awarded LNG Bunkering License In Gibraltar
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Date: Jan 28, 2021
Shell has secured a LNG bunkering licence from the Gibraltar government, allowing the oil major to ...
Czech Republic Added To Philippines International Crew Change Ban
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Date: Jan 28, 2021
The Philippine's temporary ban on international crew change is being extended to cover seafarers co...
Red Sea Gateway Terminal To Sell 40% Stake To Cosco And PIF
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Date: Jan 28, 2021
China’s Cosco Shipping Ports Limited (CSPL) and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) hav...
Havyard Wins Deal To Develop Hydrogen Zero-Emission Vessel Concept
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Date: Jan 23, 2021
Norway’s Havyard has received a contract from a European company to develop a new zero-emission s...
Scotland Opts For Greenports Instead Of Freeports
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Date: Jan 23, 2021
Scotland has unveiled plans to establish a new model of greenports focused on inclusive growth, fai...
Crew Abandoned For 11 Months Calls For Action Staging A Hunger Strike
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Date: Jan 23, 2021
The crew of a bulk carrier abandoned by its owner and flag state is staging a hunger strike t...
Panama Canal Signs MoUs With Panama Ports Company And PSA Panama International Terminal To Optimize Supply Routes for COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
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Date: Jan 23, 2021
The Panama Canal has signed memorandums of Understanding with Panama Ports Company (PPC) and PSA Pa...
Maersk Essen Losses 750 Containers Overboard On Pacific Voyage
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Date: Jan 22, 2021
With losses of containers overboard already in focus following the ONE Apus incident the 13,092 teu...
World’s Largest VLEC Departs Texas With Record Shipment To China
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Date: Jan 22, 2021
The largest single shipment of ethane to date departed the terminal in Texas bound for China. The g...
MOL Has Decided To Establish ‘MOL PLUS’ As Corporate Venture Capital Fund
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Date: Jan 22, 2021
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Junichiro Ikeda) today announced that it deter...
DHT Renews Fleet With Scrubber-Fitted, Eco-Design Duo
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Date: Jan 22, 2021
DHT Holdings, Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire two very large crude carriers (VLCCs) b...
SpaceX Converts Two Ultra-Deepwater Rigs Into Rocket Launch Pads
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Date: Jan 22, 2021
Commercial space flight operator SpaceX has purchased two oil rigs from Valaris for conversion into...
Brazil Includes Port Workers In Priority Group To Receive Covid-19 Vaccine
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Date: Jan 21, 2021
Brazil is the first country in the Americas to include port workers, as well as other transport pro...
Russian Arctic Tanker Reported To Experience Propulsion Problem
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Date: Jan 21, 2021
Russian media is reporting one of the NOVATEK ice-class Arctic LNG tankers chartered by the Yamal L...
Norsepower: World’s 1st Tiltable Rotor Sails Installed On SEA-CARGO RoRo
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Date: Jan 21, 2021
Norsepower, a Finland-based provider of auxiliary wind propulsion systems, has successfully install...
Dozens Of Bulkers Remain Stranded Off China As Coal Standoff Drags On
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Date: Jan 21, 2021
At this point in the COVID-19 pandemic, seafarers have become all too used to bureaucratic obstacle...
Hapag-Lloyd Adds Extra Services To Ease India Disruptions
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Date: Jan 19, 2021
Hapag-Lloyd has announced it is adding additional services to ease the build-up of containers in In...
COVID-19, Energy Transition Hit Transshipment At Port Of Amsterdam
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Date: Jan 19, 2021
For the first time in several years, the Port of Amsterdam saw a significant decline in transshipme...
Singapore To Vaccinate Over 10,000 Frontline Maritime Workers By End Of January
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Date: Jan 19, 2021
Singapore has become one of the first nations to prioritize COVID-19 vaccinations of frontline mari...
Avance Gas Orders Two More Dual-Fuel VLGCs At DSME
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Date: Jan 19, 2021
Norway-based shipping firm Avance Gas Holding has ordered two 91,000 cbm, liquefied petroleum gas (...
Last-Minute Terror Designation Endangers Food Lifeline For Yemen
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Date: Jan 18, 2021
A U.S. State Department decision to blacklist Yemen's Houthi rebel group may interfere with efforts...
KVH Adds Remote Expert Intervention To Its Maritime IoT Service
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Date: Jan 18, 2021
Mobile connectivity provider KVH reports that it has reached an agreement with marine technical ser...