World News

Reduced Bunker Costs, CSAV Merger Helps Hapag-Lloyd to Third Consecutive Profitable Quarter
Reduced bunker prices and a decline in bunker consumption also helped to increase profits.
12 Nov 2015
$200,000 Bunker Bill Could Cost OW Bunker "Double Payment" Buyer $1 Million
Shipper could face paying a $200,000 bunker bill twice, plus $600,000 in additional costs.
12 Nov 2015
Crude Futures Fall 3%
The general consensus is that EIA data will put further pressure on oil prices as we near August lows.
11 Nov 2015
Eco Small Dry Bulkers Have 13% Price Premium
A new report from VesselsValue suggests that small dry bulk vessels that feature fuel-saving eco engines can present rate benefits.
11 Nov 2015
Residual Fuels Are "Not Dead Yet" Despite Stricter Environmental Regulations
Intertek Shipcare's technical manager Michael Green said that hybrid fuels using residual fuel would keep demand for the latter alive.
11 Nov 2015
IEA: Prolonged OPEC Focus on Market Share, Sluggish Global Growth Could Mean $50 Oil Though 2020
Such a scenario would also mean the Middle East's share in the oil market would be higher than at any time in the last forty years.
11 Nov 2015
Gener8 Back in Black on Low Bunker Prices, High Rates
The company posted a net income of $36.5 million.
11 Nov 2015
Crude Futures See Small Gains on EIA Outlook
An EIA report projected cuts by more than 20% in oil investments this year and that this trend will follow suit into next year.
10 Nov 2015
Adani Bunkering to Expand its Footprints in South Asia
To supply marine fuels at all the major ports of India, Middle East and Singapore.
10 Nov 2015
Vitol Completes Purchase of Remaining Half of VTTI from MISC for $830 Million
There will be a new chairman of the board and two new board directors.
10 Nov 2015
New LNG Bunkering Vessel to Be Equipped with Wärtsilä Propulsion Solution
Wärtsilä says it will provide a dual fuel propulsion solution for a 5800 m3 LNG bunker and feeder vessel being built for Sirius Veder Gas AB.
10 Nov 2015
Low Bunker Prices Encourage Tanker Rate Hedging Boom
Lower bunker prices are said to be helping carriers' bottom lines and further contributing to more speculative activity in the oil tanker freight hedging market.
10 Nov 2015
Industry Insight: Singapore Cappuccino Bunker Case Study
Industry Insight: Singapore Cappuccino Bunker Case Study
This case study shows how costly it can be for a bunker buyer who does not use an impartial and independent bunker quantity surveyor.
10 Nov 2015
Crude Futures Soft After Early Gains
Despite the upwards spike crude prices succumbed to the inevitable and reversed all early morning gains.
9 Nov 2015
Industry Insight: A Review of OW Bunker Related Claims in New York, Singapore, and London
Industry Insight: A Review of OW Bunker Related Claims in New York, Singapore, and London
There have been far reaching effects on Owners and Charterers who stemmed bunkers prior to the collapse of OW Bunker.
9 Nov 2015
MAN Announces World's First Container Ship Dual-Fuel LNG Retrofit
The retrofit will enable Wessels Reederei's 1,000 TEU container ship to reduce SOx emissions by more than 99 percent, and NOx by about 90 percent.
9 Nov 2015
IBIA Moots Proposal for Non-Compliant Bunker Ban When 0.5% Global Sulfur Cap Comes into Force
Robin Meech, IBIA vice chairman, says the industry will need a "level playing field."
9 Nov 2015
Reports: Singapore's NOL Gets Preliminary Purchase Offer from CMA CGM, is Also in Talks with Maersk
The two companies are said to be in preliminary talks for the acquisition of the shipping company that has been valued at $1.9 billion.
9 Nov 2015
Poor Freight Rates Instrumental in Q3 Profit Decline of Nearly 50% for Maersk
But CEO Nils S. Andersen says the company's expected annual performance is commendable in "very challenging" markets.
9 Nov 2015
OW Bunker: $125 Million Has "Disappeared" from Former Singapore Top 10 Bunker Supplier Tankoil, Say Financial Investigators
"We have found that there is little value in Tankoil," says John Sommer Schmidt, OW Bunker trustee of the investigations of bankrupt Tankoil.
6 Nov 2015