Industry Insight

Industry Insight: Priorities to Drive Forward the Marine Industry in Today's Volatile Market

Over the past 18 months, fluctuations in oil prices have caused serious disruptions within the oil and gas marine sector.

9 Oct 2015

Industry Insight: Bunker Prices Could Fall Further as Analysts Predict Crude Has Yet to Reach Bottom

Some analysts, including Goldman Sachs, say $20 oil should not be ruled out.

16 Sep 2015

Industry Insight: Effective ECA Compliance - Why Pairing Fuels and Lubes is a Long-Game

Insight into why there is no silver bullet for twinning lubes with a diversified cleaner fuels mix in today's operating conditions.

20 Aug 2015

Industry Insight: Is Lebanon a Ship Arrest-Friendly Jurisdiction for Bunker Traders?

Lebanon is not a party to the International Convention on the Arrest of Seagoing Ships 1952 or the International Convention on the Arrest of Ships 1999.

5 Aug 2015

Industry Insight: Effective Condition Monitoring to Prevent Damage From Fuel Switching

Operators require a detailed understanding of the effect that environmental legislative changes have on the vessel and equipment.

4 Aug 2015

Industry Insight: A History of Carbon War Room's Involvement in the Shipping Industry

"Early retrofitters will be rewarded, and will reinforce, the two-tier market between efficient and inefficient vessels," writes CWR's Helen Marks.

16 Jul 2015

Industry Insight: Singapore, China, Greece Lead Bulker Scrapping Surge

"The top players are not too surprising, but their scrapping activity differs when you look at the types of bulkers being sold off," notes VesselsValue.com.

9 Jul 2015

Industry Insight: Supporting Regulatory Plans to Curb Black Carbon Through Incentivised Eco Technology

The IMO is forging ahead with plans to curb emissions in the Arctic to reduce international shipping's impact on global warming.

6 Jul 2015

Industry Insight: Ship & Bunker Talks to OilChart Offshore as the UK-Based Supplier Celebrates its 1st Anniversary

"We don't aspire to be the largest operator in the industry, but rather to offer specific, specialist, and targeted solutions," MD Owen Webber tells Ship & Bunker.

2 Jul 2015

Industry Insight: Five Key Decisions Made at MEPC68

BLUE outlines five key decisions taken at the latest session of the International Maritime Organisation's (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee.

24 Jun 2015

Industry Insight: How the Collapse of OW Bunker Impacted the Insurance Industry

This is one of the biggest claims that the trade credit insurance industry has ever experienced and shows the value of having effective credit insurance.

19 Jun 2015

Industry Insight: Hybrid Wind Marine Propulsion Systems, a 200 Year Old Idea

Teramoto Iron Works, who produced rigid sales over 40 years ago, is now working with Eco Marine Power on the next generation wind power systems.

29 May 2015

Industry Insight: Where Are The World's Current and Planned LNG Bunkering Locations?

Of the world's 8,000 seaports, 46 ports are LNG hopefuls and a mere 15 are open for general LNG bunker business today.

26 May 2015

Industry Insight: Is the IMO Really Falling Short With its Emission Reduction Targets?

The IMO's 2020 goal is to reduce CO2 emissions by more than 20% compared to 2005. Is it fair then to infer that the goals are a little archaic?

6 May 2015

Industry Insight: Sink or sail? Fuel-Efficiency Solutions in an Era of Cheap Oil

When a product says it will cut your fuel bill and pay for itself in a matter of months, what do you do when the market conditions underpinning that proposition are badly shaken?

27 Apr 2015

Industry Insight: Dawn of the "Open Platform" – Standardisation in Gathering Big Data

A few companies have presented a unique idea: a common data gathering platform on board that can support any solution or application provider.

23 Apr 2015

Industry Insight: SGMF Membership Uncovered - An interview with Sean Andersen and Tony Haston, Dixon Valve & Coupling

Dixon, founded in 1916, is a premier global manufacturer and supplier of hose couplings, valves, dry disconnects, swivels, and other fluid transfer and control products.

7 Apr 2015

Industry Insight: An interview with Samir Bailouni, Nakilat (Qatar Gas Transport Co.)

Nakilat is a Qatari company that ships LNG from Qatar mega projects to the world.

23 Mar 2015

Industry Insight: The Importance of Regular Fuel System Checks

Unless system samples are tested, fuel quality at the engine side remain vague.

9 Mar 2015

Industry Insight: Driving Operational Change with Data-Driven Analytics

Real-time reporting and data analysis are key tools to understanding and improving complex operating environments of today's companies.

4 Mar 2015