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August, 2016
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Thu25Aug	Gazpromneft-Lubricants Completes Spill Exercises at St. Petersburg and Murmansk The company says the exercises were aimed at testing team preparedness for spill response while bunkering lubricants to merchant vessels at berth.
Wed24Aug	Crude Down as EIA Reports Rising US Inventories Bunker prices were soft in the primary ports.
Wed24Aug	EU Recommends Co-Funding for Containerships' LNG-Powered Vessels Containerships says the recommendation is a "remarkable recognition" of its environmental strategy.
Wed24Aug	Swedish Government Orders Study on NOx ECA Impacts The Swedish Government says it will investigate the impacts that a NOx ECA in the Baltic and North Seas will have on Swedish industry.
Wed24Aug	Norsepower Receives €2.6 Million Funding for Bunker Saving Rotor Sail Tech The funding is said to be intended to support R&D, including the development of the world's largest Flettner rotor.
Wed24Aug	Damen to Provide AEC Scrubbers to Marine Markets To date AEC Systems has been mainly focused on land-based scrubber systems.
Wed24Aug	Port of Shenzhen to Adopt China ECA Regulation from October 1 The ECA regulations require ships at berth in affected ports use fuel with a sulfur content of no more than 0.5 percent.
Wed24Aug	PoLB Attributes Emissions Rise in 2015 to Port Congestion Alongside a rise in emissions during 2015 from the previous year, the port also notes that its annual container traffic increased by 7 percent.
Wed24Aug	Delta Shipping Fined Over 2011 Bunker Spill MV RAK is said to have been carrying 290 tonnes of fuel oil and 50 tonnes of diesel when it sunk off the coast of Mumbai in 2011.
Wed24Aug	Update: Two Small Tankers Arrested in Singapore Vessels are connected to Malaysian and Vietnamese interests.
Tue23Aug	Goldman Sachs Dismisses Freeze Talks as Counterproductive, but Crude Bounces on Iran Indicating it Might Support Them Other unnamed sources take the mainstream view that the upcoming Algeria talks are pointless.
Tue23Aug	Port of L.A. Takes Another Step Towards Zero Emissions California's ARB says Mayor Eric Garcetti has appointed a new advisory board to support the reduction of carbon emissions at the Port of L.A.
Tue23Aug	Iran Says Bunkering Capacity Up 33%, but Sector Needs More Investment "Small-scale activities would not be able to compete in the international arena," says PMO Managing Director Mohammad Saeednejad.
Tue23Aug	Credit Suisse: More Negatives Than Positives for Crude Prices, But No Move Back Into The $30s And again, freeze talks are dismissed as irrelevant.
Tue23Aug	Shell Deal Prompts Gibraltar Opposition to Again Voice Concern Over LNG Bunkering "GSD is yet to see in the public domain anything definitive that makes the present plans acceptably safe," it says.
Tue23Aug	New Singapore Bunker Industry Association Established ABIS will largely focus on working with small and medium-sized bunker companies in order to enhance business service quality.
Tue23Aug	Monjasa Announces New $80 Million Credit Facility Monjasa says the facility was arranged by its newest financial partner, Société Générale.
Tue23Aug	Aegean to Redeploy Singapore Barge to New "Beneficial" South African Operation M/T Tilos is expected to arrive in South Africa in September, Aegean tells Ship & Bunker.
Tue23Aug	Iran Readies Oil Deals With Russia, China The swap plus two key oil field developments will boost Iran's flourishing international status.
Tue23Aug	As Crude Drops 3%, Consultant Predicts a Bottom of the $30s With Real Demand Not Occurring Until 2017 or Later China exports of diesel and gasoline are blamed for Monday's losses along with a steadily increasing U.S. rig count.

Showing 41-60 of 213 articles from August, 2016

May 22

1World Fuel Services Middle East Supply Manager Steps Down

The outgoing manager has worked for the company since June 2014.
May 23

2Burando Energies Hires Senior Bunker Trader in Houston

The new hire previously worked for Dan-Bunkering in its Houston office since 2018.
May 22

3GCMD Sees Evidence of Widespread Biofuel Mislabelling

About a third of biofuel samples collected by the GCMD appear to have been mislabelled.
May 23

4B24 Still Dominates Asian Biofuel Market as B30 Faces Supplier Pushback

Some suppliers remain cautious about switching to B30 due to concerns over fuel stability, performance, and specification guarantees, sources tell Ship & Bunker.
May 21

5Oilmar DMCC Opens Danish Branch Office

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