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Shanghai – Europe Spot Container Rates Jump 24% In A Week

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Date: Dec 11, 2020

The Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI) Shanghai – Europe reported a rate of $2,948 per t...

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BBG And Harren & Partner Combining Bulker Businesses

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Date: Dec 11, 2020

Bremen-based bulker alliance of BBG and Harren & Partner will manage a fleet of 23 bulk carrier...

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Inmarsat’s Most Powerful Satellite Enters Service

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Date: Dec 11, 2020

Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, confirms commercial service ...

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IMO: United in the fight against corruption

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Date: Dec 10, 2020

On International Anti-Corruption Day 2020 (9 December), IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has highlig...

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Baltic Exchange Launches New Service For Ship Investors

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Date: Dec 10, 2020

Leading publisher of maritime market benchmarks, the Baltic Exchange, has launched a new service for...

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Ships’ Recycling Activity Up, As Bangladesh Returns To The Market

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Date: Dec 10, 2020

The return of Bangladesh in the ships’ recycling market captured all the headlines this past week....

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JSW Steel Crude Steel Production Rises 3% Yoy In November

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Date: Dec 10, 2020

JSW Steel said its crude steel production rose 3% to 13.32 lakh tonnes in November 2020 from 12.90 l...

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Tristar Group Wins Exclusive GCC Helium Carriage Contract

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Date: Dec 09, 2020

Tristar will utilise its specially designed fleet of trucks which has advanced built-in safety fea...

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K Line To Help Develop Hydrogen Supply Chain To Drive Decarbonisation

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Date: Dec 09, 2020

The Japan Hydrogen Association seeks to promote global cooperation in hydrogen-oriented activities a...

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Ports of Auckland Fully-Electric Tug Hits The Water

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Date: Dec 09, 2020

Vietnam-based Song Cam Shipyard launched the world’s first fully-electric ship-handling tug of 70 ...

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Seaspan Orders Five 12,200 TEU Boxships

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Date: Dec 09, 2020

Hong Kong-based containership owner Seaspan Corporation has entered into purchase orders to build fi...

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Fireworks, Batteries And Liquid Ethanol Among Cargoes Lost From ONE Apus

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Date: Dec 08, 2020

Among the 1,816 containers estimated to have been lost from the 14,000 teu ONE Apus when it hit seve...

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CDB Financial Leasing Acquiring 14 Vessels From Maersk Tankers Singapore

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Date: Dec 08, 2020

CDB Financial Leasing is to acquire the 14 product tankers via its 14 wholly-owned special purpose c...

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Plan for Large Green Ammonia Production Plant for Shipping Industry

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Date: Dec 08, 2020

With attention focused on the potential of ammonia as the fuel source of the future for the shipping...

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Images of World’s Largest Iceberg Drifting in the Southern Ocean

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Date: Dec 08, 2020

Britain’s Royal Air Force released dramatic images of what is believed to be the world’s largest...

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OPEC+ Agrees To Increase Output after Tense Negotiations

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Date: Dec 08, 2020

Tense negotiations and rumours of a rift between Saudi Arabia and UAE ended with a compromise deal f...

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Amendments To California’s Marine Invasive Species Program Will Come Into Force Soon

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Date: Dec 05, 2020

California has amended regulation in section 2298.5 in Article 4.8 of Title 2, Division 3 of Chapter...

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Shipping Industry Commits to Eliminating Single-Use Plastics in 2021

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Date: Dec 05, 2020

Plastic waste floating in the world’s ocean has been ranked as one of the largest ecological probl...

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Pacific Basin Using Carbon Offsets for Shore Operations and Customers

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Date: Dec 05, 2020

Hong Kong’s Pacific Basin Shipping company announced that it will be joining the increasing number...

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Navis Solves Manning and Training for Offshore Wind Vessel Operators

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Date: Dec 05, 2020

Navis Crew Management has been successfully operating in Odessa, Ukraine since 2011. The company is ...

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Bimco: Eu Ship Recycling Regime Improved But Gaps Remain

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Date: Dec 04, 2020

An updated Report on the European list of ship recycling facilities, commissioned by BIMCO, shows pr...

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Imo Guidelines For On Board Samples Approved

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Date: Dec 04, 2020

IBIA sought clarification on the link between sample handling and inclusion of bunker delivery note ...

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Standardization, Data Sharing And Use Of Iot In The Cargo Handling Industry Were An Ambition, Now They Are Becoming A Reality

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Date: Dec 04, 2020

These last months, EU supply and logistics chains have been under severe pressure but have been able...

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Tanker Saves Two People Clinging to Board in the Ocean

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Date: Dec 04, 2020

In a stroke of good luck, a Marshall Island flagged crude oil tanker, the 113,553 DWT Godam, happen...

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Trade Associations Call on FMC to Address Bottlenecks and Port Charges

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Date: Dec 03, 2020

Retailers and other shippers are experiencing growing delays and increased charges as ports across t...

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Pacific Carriers Pleads Guilty and Fined $12 Million in Pollution Case

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Date: Dec 03, 2020

In the latest example of a shipowner and its crew knowingly concealing the discharge of oily water, ...

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Rolls-Royce Acquires Supplier of Ship Control Systems Servowatch

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Date: Dec 03, 2020

Rolls-Royce has acquired Servowatch Systems, a UK-based international supplier of integrated marine ...

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Waterfront Shipping Orders Eight Additional Methanol Dual-Fuel Vessels

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Date: Dec 03, 2020

Waterfront Shipping Company, a subsidiary of Methanex Corporation, ordered eight additional methanol...

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ONE Boxship Suffers Container Stack Collapse in Mid-Pacific

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Date: Dec 02, 2020

The container ship ONE Apus "suffered collapsed containers" due to rolling in severe weather condi...

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UN Adopts Seafarer Resolution as Union Calls for Home for the Holidays

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Date: Dec 02, 2020

The plight of seafarers caught at sea or unable to reach their ships to start work due to the travel...

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BHP Moves Forward With Plan for LNG-Fueled Bulk Carriers

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Date: Dec 02, 2020

In the continuing efforts to deploy LNG-fueled vessels, Australian mining giant BHP has become the l...

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Chinese Ports Allow Hundreds of Banned N. Korean Voyages

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Date: Dec 02, 2020

The U.S. Department of State accused the Chinese government of turning a blind eye to trade with Nor...