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CMA CGM Offer Accepted by NOL's Majority Shareholders
CMA CGM now owns 78.07 percent of NOL's shares.
13 Jun 2016
Marine Battery Power a "Surprising" Option for Short Sea Shipping
Harry Robertsson, technical director at Stena Teknik, says the company is looking to begin with battery powered bow thrusters on Stena Line vessels.
13 Jun 2016
Stena: Cost and Power Considerations Means LNG Retrofits Are Too Expensive
Stena Teknik says LNG retrofits are expensive and the engines are not powerful enough keep to schedule.
13 Jun 2016
Latest FOE Report Bemoans Cruise Industry's Failing Environmental Efforts, CLIA Calls it "Misleading and Inaccurate"
FOE's Cruise Ship "Report Card 2016" gave all 17 cruise lines a failing grade for transparency, except one; CLIA says its "largely a fundraising effort for FOE."
13 Jun 2016
LR: HFO Will Still be the Dominant Bunker Fuel in 2030
There will however be "an increase in the diversity of the fuel mix" says Nick Brown of LR Marine.
13 Jun 2016
Hamburg Süd: LNG Bunkers Would Meet Environmental, But Not Financial Needs
Hamburg Süd and subsidiary Columbus Shipmanagement GmbH wanted to evaluate if they "could avoid the complete use of fuel oil."
13 Jun 2016
Neste On Track to Launch "RMG-Type" ECA Compliant Bunker Fuel in 2017
The new fuel will have "a significantly higher viscosity than the currently available products," says Neste.
10 Jun 2016
Second LNG-Powered Cement Tanker Delivered by Ferus Smit
The dual fuel LNG-MGO vessel is said to be one of the first such vessels in the world.
10 Jun 2016
Tallink Sees 3% Efficiency Boost from its ECA Bunkers
The operator says the savings come "in addition to the environmentally important feature of low sulfur content."
10 Jun 2016
Diana Shipping, Bureau Veritas Team Up to Boost Energy Performance of Three Vessels
The shipping firm is said to have used BV's SEECAT energy simulation software to assess the efficiency of three of its capesize bulk carriers.
10 Jun 2016
K Line Singapore to get ClassNK's Bunker Saving Condition Monitoring System
A 2014 trial of the CMAXS LC-A tech demonstrated a "fuel and lubricating oil savings of 200 tonnes per year."
10 Jun 2016
Springfield Shipping Selects Eniram to Provide Bunker-Saving Tech
Eniram will be providing energy efficiency technology to the Springfield Shipping's fleet of VLCCs.
10 Jun 2016
Oil Slips, But $60/bbl is "One Supply Disruption in Venezuela Away"
Analysts believe $60-plus crude now has more support.
10 Jun 2016
Monjasa Addresses Rumours Over its Financing
"I can safely say that Monjasa is in a very good financial position and we expect no difficulties whatsoever in reaching new financing models," CFO Kenneth Henriks tells Ship & Bunker.
10 Jun 2016
Weekly Vessel Scrapping Report: 2016 Week 22
Weekly Vessel Scrapping Report: 2016 Week 22
Have you sold bunkers to a recently scrapped vessel? Check here with VesselsValue.com's demolition sales from June 2 – June 9, 2016.
9 Jun 2016
Wärtsilä Hails World's Largest Scrubber System
Wärtsilä says the hybrid scrubber system enables the world's largest cruise ship to "comply with emission control regulations around the world."
9 Jun 2016
Stena: Even with Carbon Tax, HFO with Scrubbers the Most Cost Effective ECA Solution
As a result, it is said that Stena Group's fleet will likely utilise HFO with scrubbers over the next 15 years.
9 Jun 2016
RINA Supports Adoption of LNG Bunkers with Launch of Gas Centre of Excellence
The initiative is intended to respond to the growing interest in the use of LNG as marine fuel, as well as the EU LNG Masterplan.
9 Jun 2016
Court Backs World Fuel Services Following $17 Million Bunker Theft
WFS' insurer argued that a policy taken out just weeks before the fraud began did not cover the bunker supplier for the loss.
9 Jun 2016
Crude Continues to Rise
Prompting todays climb was a larger decrease in crude supplies and better economic data out of China.
8 Jun 2016