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Another LNG-Powered Newbuild Ordered for AIDA Cruises
Another LNG-Powered Newbuild Ordered for AIDA Cruises
Costa Group now has a total of seven new ships on order by 2023, including three ships for AIDA Cruises and four for Costa Cruises.
27 Feb 2018
TOTE Completes First Phase of Vessel Conversion to LNG-Fuelled Propulsion
TOTE Completes First Phase of Vessel Conversion to LNG-Fuelled Propulsion
The company says LNG tanks and critical engine updates were completed during the initial phase of the planned four year process.
27 Feb 2018
Dennis Ho Joins Peninsula in Singapore
Dennis Ho Joins Peninsula in Singapore
Sesoned bunker industry professional Ho previously worked with Aegean, Seven Seas Oil Trading.
27 Feb 2018
IMO2020: Fuel Oil Price Crunch Could Come Sooner Than You Think, Says Analyst
IMO2020: Fuel Oil Price Crunch Could Come Sooner Than You Think, Says Analyst
Price readjustment will start happening in 2019, Rhidoy Rashid tells Ship & Bunker.
27 Feb 2018
Oil Tanker Operator and Ship's Master Guilty in US Oil Pollution Case
Oil Tanker Operator and Ship's Master Guilty in US Oil Pollution Case
Discharged oily waste and failed to complete oil records book.
27 Feb 2018
Saudis See Oil Cuts Easing in 2019, While UK Becomes Latest Nation to Announce Production Hike
Saudis See Oil Cuts Easing in 2019, While UK Becomes Latest Nation to Announce Production Hike
But Bank of America suggests that concern over crude markets could become a thing of the past after 2020.
26 Feb 2018
Crude Hit 3-Week High, But Warnings Over Sub $50/bbl Persist
Crude Hit 3-Week High, But Warnings Over Sub $50/bbl Persist
U.S. production is once again identified as the gadfly that will cause a glut and subsequent price drop.
26 Feb 2018
Port Air Quality and Emissions Focus of Recent Poseidon Med II Workshop
Port Air Quality and Emissions Focus of Recent Poseidon Med II Workshop
The latest workshop was organised by CERTH under the Poseidon Med II initiative.
26 Feb 2018
Bunker Spill Off Vancouver
Bunker Spill Off Vancouver
HMCS Calgary spills some 27mt in the Strait of Georgia.
26 Feb 2018
Japan Likely to Push Ahead on Unmanned Vessels
Japan Likely to Push Ahead on Unmanned Vessels
Global labour shortage and regional competition driving development.
26 Feb 2018
Platform Supply Vessels to Get Added Battery Power
Platform Supply Vessels to Get Added Battery Power
Corvus Energy to supply systems to vessels operating in the Gulf of Mexico.
26 Feb 2018
Distillates Will Not Dominate Post 2020 Bunker Market: ExxonMobil
Distillates Will Not Dominate Post 2020 Bunker Market: ExxonMobil
"There's going to be a lot of blending, and there's still going to be a lot of residual fuel oil," says ExxonMobil's marine marketing manager, Iain White.
23 Feb 2018
Crude Prices Escalate, But UAE Thinks They Need to be Higher
Crude Prices Escalate, But UAE Thinks They Need to be Higher
This is despite widespread worry that $60-plus oil is causing rampant U.S. production to affect market rebalancing efforts.
23 Feb 2018
IMO2020: Transition to 0.50% Sulfur Cap Starts Now, Ends on Jan 1, 2020
IMO2020: Transition to 0.50% Sulfur Cap Starts Now, Ends on Jan 1, 2020
Saudi Arabia and Iran among those suggesting a transition period after Jan 1, 2020 be considered.
23 Feb 2018
IMO2020: Exxon, BP See Future for Low Sulfur Residual Fuel
IMO2020: Exxon, BP See Future for Low Sulfur Residual Fuel
0.5% fuel oil could account for over half of market over longer term.
23 Feb 2018
WFS Posts Annual Loss for 2017
WFS Posts Annual Loss for 2017
With restructuring and impairment costs eating into company's bottom line.
23 Feb 2018
Hualien: Bunker Supply Limited to Tank Truck Following Concern Over Pipeline Leakage
Hualien: Bunker Supply Limited to Tank Truck Following Concern Over Pipeline Leakage
Repairs will take at least six months.
23 Feb 2018
Storage Facing Big Questions Ahead of IMO2020: Vitol
Storage Facing Big Questions Ahead of IMO2020: Vitol
Low sulfur products need to build ahead of 2020, while fuel oil stocks will also build due to a lack of demand, notes Vitol's Chris Bake.
22 Feb 2018
Crude Prices Drop Despite Unexpected Inventory Decline - But Analysts Warn of "Ballooning" Supply
Crude Prices Drop Despite Unexpected Inventory Decline - But Analysts Warn of "Ballooning" Supply
Rising production from non-OPEC sources reportedly could cover demand growth to 2020.
22 Feb 2018
World Fuel Services Sold 26.5 Million MT of Bunkers in 2017
World Fuel Services Sold 26.5 Million MT of Bunkers in 2017
WFS says it has witnessed "growing weakness" in maritime markets over the last year.
22 Feb 2018