World News

AkzoNobel Marks 20,000th Application of Efficiency Boosting Intershield 300
Teekay Shipping's newbuild Torben Spirit received the application of the anticorrosive universal primer earlier this month.
30 Nov 2016
ETI Seeking Partners to Develop Vessel Performance Tool
ETI says it is looking to develop a tool to provide accurate and transparent data on the performance of different types of vessels.
30 Nov 2016
Prepare For Bunker Price Spike: Oil Jumps Over 7% After Sources Indicate OPEC Has Agreed to Cut Output
Full details of the deal are still emerging.
30 Nov 2016
Mandatory Singapore MFMs Prompt "Many Enquiries" for the TR48 Accredited Technology at Other Ports
In the coming years, "the industry will see more independently accredited tankers in accordance to TR48:2015, in different ports around the world."
30 Nov 2016
Carbon War Room Announces Launch of New Free Ship Operational Efficiency Portal
Carbon War Room, exactEarth, and UMAS have launched the free-to-access BetterFleet on ShippingEfficiency.org.
30 Nov 2016
Vienna Deadlock Causes Crude To Drop 4%, Saudis Taking Increasingly Hard Line In Cutback Talks
The kingdom insists that all players participate in the cutback save for Nigeria and Libya.
29 Nov 2016
IEA Highlights Refiner and Shipper Challenges Expected from 2020 Sulfur Cap
Bunker fuel refiners will have to increase supply of lower sulfur blendstocks and decide what to do with higher sulfur residual oil that can no longer be blended.
29 Nov 2016
Maersk Line Mulls Hamburg Süd Acquisition: Sources
Such a move is expected to fortify Maersk Line's presence in Latin America in particular.
29 Nov 2016
COSCO Europe Reaches "New Heights" of Fuel Efficiency with Bunker-Saving Hull Coating: Jotun
The 10,062 TEU container ship's bunker costs have been reduced by $4.5 million and its C​O2 emissions by approximately 29,500 tonnes in four years.
29 Nov 2016
ABS and Keppel Become Newest SEA\LNG Partners
The cross-industry coalition is intended to address market challenges to facilitate the global uptake of LNG as a marine fuel.
29 Nov 2016
BRS: Scrubbers "Uneconomic" for Older Vessels
With future legislation expected to address NOx and PM, "there is little certainty that scrubbers can clean emissions to future compliance levels," says BRS.
29 Nov 2016
Bunker-Saving Corvus ESS Featured on Scandlines' Newest Hybrid Ferry
Corvus says MV Copenhagen is the sixth Scandlines hybrid ferry to utilise a Corvus ESS.
28 Nov 2016
Bunker Supply Chain Needs Significant Infrastructure Investment for 2020 Cap: BRS
As well as the construction of new bunker barges, BRS says the new cap could mean storage tanks being reconfigured to hold clean products instead of fuel oil.
28 Nov 2016
Prepare for Soaring Prices For "Fuel of Choice" MGO in 2020: BRS
The new report by BRS' Tanker Department also concludes that consumers with the least ability to pay increased prices could be squeezed out of the market.
28 Nov 2016
0.50% Global Sulfur Cap to Be Met With "Limited" Large Scale Non-Compliance: Report
The report by BRS' Tanker Department suggests that enforcement could be conducted at port though bunker note inspections.
28 Nov 2016
ESL Shipping to Receive up to €5.9 Million in EU Funding for LNG-Powered Newbuilds
ESL has also signed €50 million in vessel financing agreements with OP Corporate Bank to support the company's newbuilding projects.
25 Nov 2016
NORD/LB Expects More Than €1 Billion Loss Through Ship Finance
Further, risk provisioning is said to be above average in the fourth quarter, and is expected to come in "considerably above" €2 billion for the 2016 year.
25 Nov 2016
Panamanian Ports Shutter Operations on Approach of Hurricane Otto
Balboa and Cristobal anchorages are noted to be experiencing delays.
25 Nov 2016
0.5% Global Sulfur Cap Will Benefit Well Capitalised Bunker Suppliers: Aegean
The new cap "will have a positive impact on our business," says Aegean President E. Nikolas Tavlarios.
25 Nov 2016
Shell Marine Updates Mobile App to Include Lube Reporting
The company notes its lube products are also available at new ports across Australia, China, Europe, Philippines, and Saudi Arabia.
24 Nov 2016