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VPS Launches Vessel Optimisation Software Core

The firm's new Core software is particularly geared towards helping shipping companies address the upcoming CII and EEXI environmental performance regulations.

17 Oct 2022

Engineering Firm Wärtsilä Unites Voyage and Marine Power Businesses

The firm is integrating Wärtsilä Voyage as a unit within Wärtsilä Marine Power from January 1.

17 Oct 2022

BUNKER JOBS: Peninsula Seeks Derivatives Contract Management Trader in Las Palmas

The company is looking for candidates with a high level of commercial acumen and computer literacy as well as fluent business English.

17 Oct 2022

Weekly Vessel Scrapping Report 2022: Week 40

Have you sold bunkers to a recently scrapped vessel? Check here with VesselsValue's demolition sales from October 6 – October 12, 2022.

14 Oct 2022

Ports of Rotterdam and Gothenburg Sign Green Corridor Deal

The two port authorities signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday seeking to establish a green corridor initiative to stimulate the use of alternative bunker fuels.

14 Oct 2022

S&B ANALYSIS: Latest on Brent / VLSFO / HSFO Relationship, Bunker Price Outlook as 2022 Sees Record High Marine Fuel Prices

Bunker prices have favoured owners of scrubber equipped tonnage, with the high/low sulfur spread during the first nine months of 2022 averaging $243.13/mt.

14 Oct 2022

Oil Prices Rise On Stockpile Report Showing Big Draw And Disturbing Build

Meanwhile, Saudis reveal Biden plea to delay output cut.

13 Oct 2022

Shell Signs Marine Fuel Cell Development Deal

The vessel will operate with the fuel cell for one year while tests are carried out.

13 Oct 2022

Lloyd's Register Sees Up to $50,000 Cost Per Incident of Off-Spec Fuels

The report estimates that more than one million mt/year of off-specification fuels are sold in the global bunker market.

13 Oct 2022

Bunker Holding Offers 20 Weeks' Parental Leave to All Global Employees

The policy goes far beyond the minimum legal requirement in most countries.

13 Oct 2022

INTERVIEW: Hartree Marine Sets Out Long-Term Bunker Industry Ambitions

We are taking a measured approach to growth and first and foremost our focus is on establishing a customer service-oriented business that is in it for the long term, Ethan Ram tells Ship & Bunker.

12 Oct 2022

Greenest Marine Fuels Needn't Cost the Earth

When you offer a discount on meeting GHG targets, says environmentalist T&E.

12 Oct 2022

Oil Sinks Again As Monetary Experts Forecast All-Out Recession In 2023

Meanwhile, China's unwavering Covid policy heralds a further erosion in demand.

11 Oct 2022

Corvus Energy Launches New Test Area for Hydrogen Fuel Cells

The company is developing large-scale maritime-certified hydrogen fuel cell systems, with Toyota as a key partner and supplier of fuel cell technology.

11 Oct 2022

EMSA Publishes Studies on Ammonia and Biofuel Bunkers

The studies analyse current production capacity, the regulatory landscape, storage and other issues.

11 Oct 2022

MOL Takes Delivery of Wind-Powered Coal Carrier

The Wind Challenger sail is expected to cut the vessel's GHG emissions by about 5% on a Japan-Australia voyage and by about 8% on a Japan-North America West Coast voyage.

11 Oct 2022

Bunker Holding Hires Global Sustainable Fuels Director

Valerie Ahrens joined the firm as global sustainable fuels director as of last month.

11 Oct 2022

Bulk Carrier Opts for Methanol

As preferred future alternative bunker fuel.

11 Oct 2022

SIBCON22: Cargill Plans Methanol-Fuelled Bulker

The firm has not yet decided whether it will own or charter the vessel, Cargill's Olivier Josse tells Ship & Bunker.

11 Oct 2022

FOWE Reports 10% Consumption Savings from ULSFO Emulsion Bunker Fuel

The successful test was performed on Scorpio Tankers' 2015 built STI Acton during a voyage from Borsele to Skagen.

11 Oct 2022