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September, 2015
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Wed09Sep	Lunde: Exodus of London-based Lenders Heralds Decline of the City's Status as Maritime Finance Centre RBS, Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland, HSBC and its predecessor Midland have all opted to withdraw from traditional shipping finance in recent years.
Wed09Sep	Port Stakeholders Receive Training on LNG Bunkering Safety and Awareness The training program was said to be funded by a group of companies with current LNG projects underway, including TOTE's Sea Star Line.
Wed09Sep	Bunker Price Slide Offering Little Relief as Narrowing Margins Mean Carrier Lines Face Tough Fourth Quarter Operating margins fell to 2.4 percent in the second quarter from 5.3 percent in the first quarter
Wed09Sep	China Paves Way for Emission Control Areas With Amended Pollution Laws The amendments also require terminals to provide shore power.
Wed09Sep	Exchange Rate, Competition Causing Russian Bunker Price Volatility St.Petersburg and Novorossiysk saw bunker prices slid to six-month lows during August.
Wed09Sep	Morgan Stanley: VLCC Crude Storage Becoming More Attractive However other sources in the industry say the "economics doesn't work."
Tue08Sep	Brent Firms, But Stays Under $50/bbl We can expect futures to go either way anticipating EIA data on U.S. inventories.
Tue08Sep	Carbon War Room Offering $200,000 Ship Efficiency Grant to Prove 10-15% Fuel Savings Are Possible CWR has issued a RFP for a $200,000 grant that will help finance the retrofit of a single-vessel with ship efficiency technologies.
Tue08Sep	U.S. Bunker Spill Much Larger than Initially Thought after Vessel Sinks Washington State authorities say that a bunker spill resulting from a sunken fishing boat has spilled more fuel into the Puget Sound than initially thought.
Tue08Sep	Hempel Hails Success of Bunker-Saving Antifouling Coating Hempel says its antifouling coating HEMPAGUARD has now been applied to more than 350 ships.
Tue08Sep	Report: Still Not Enough Cruise Ships Using Emission Abatement Techniques NABU's Cruise Ship Ranking shows that there are still not enough vessels in the industry utilising environmentally friendly emission abatement techniques.
Tue08Sep	New Sponge Technology Developed to Clean Ships' Exhaust Emissions The technology involves involves a large spinning steel sponge that is said to act as a separator.
Tue08Sep	Parker Kittiwake - Procal Expands Emissions Monitoring Systems' Global Distribution, Service Capability Score Subsea and Wellhead will become the systems integrator for Procal's marine, power, and offshore continuous emissions monitoring analysers.
Tue08Sep	China to Launch New Oil Futures Contract, Could Seize Control of Oil Prices The new contract is expected to debut on the Shanghai International Energy Exchange as early as October.
Tue08Sep	Brightoil Issues Positive Profit Alert The company said that there was likely an improvement overalls across its business sectors.
Tue08Sep	Analysts: Americas Will Shoulder Brunt of Oil Output Cuts as Obama Gains Majority Support on Iran Deal A.T. Kearney says by 2020 the region could see a decline of up to 1.1 million bpd, while Iran will boost output by 1.5 million bpd.
Mon07Sep	Drewry: Recovery of Dry Bulk Market a "Long Way Off" Continued low demand could make it difficult for many shipowners to survive the unfavourable market conditions, says lead analyst Rahul Sharan.
Mon07Sep	250,000 Gallons of HFO Cutter Stock Spilled in Mississippi River Collision The U.S. Coast Guard is currently determining the extent of the spill.
Mon07Sep	White Paper Published on Bunker Saving Waste Heat Recovery System Calnetix says there is increasing demand for solutions to reduce fuel consumption.
Mon07Sep	Russia Agrees Oil Price Stabilisation Initiatives With Venezuela, Willing to Further Talks with OPEC The measures are said to be aimed at pushing prices up to $70 per barrel in the coming months.

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