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  • India Secures Loan to Upgrade Alang Recycling Yard

    18 September 2017
    Business & Finance

    The Government of India has signed a loan agreement worth USD 76 million for a project to upgrade the environment management plan at Alang-Sosiya ship recycling yards. The total cost of the project will be USD 111 million, out of which USD 76 million will be provided as soft loan from Japan International Cooperation Agency […]

  • Blasts aboard Indonesian Tanker Leave One Dead, Three Missing

    19 August 2014

    Three people are missing and one died after three blasts ripped through Indonesian-flagged product tanker Java Bonitos while the ship was passing through the Bangka Strait, off southern Sumatra, the Java Sea on August 15th, local media report. The explosions are said to have originated from the tanker’s engine room resulting in a fire that spread […]

  • One Dead after Libya Military Attacks Turkish Freighter

    11 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    A ship officer died and several crew members were injured after a Turkish general cargo ship was shelled and attacked from the air near the Libyan port city of Tobruk on Sunday, Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports. The Ministry has strongly condemned the attack on the vessel identified as the Cook Islands-flagged Tuna-1, which was […]

  • K Line Orders Bulker at Imabari Yard

    19 June 2018
    Business & Finance

    K Line orders a 100,000 dwt bulk carrier from compatriot Imabari Shipbuilding.

  • Shipping Ministry Issues Guidelines for Deployment of Armed Guards in Indian Merchant Ships

    30 August 2011

      The Ministry of Shipping has issued Guidelines regarding deployment of armed guards in Indian Merchant Ships as a part of the various steps undertaken by the Government to combat the piracy in Gulf of Aden. The Ministry considered the fact that about 35% of the ship transiting in these waters deploy armed security guards […]

  • Rolls-Royce Confirms OSV Order from COSCO Guangdong Shipyard, China

    29 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has won a £24 million order to design and equip four offshore service vessels which will be built by COSCO (Guangdong) Shipyard Co., Ltd in China. The Rolls-Royce UT 771 CDL vessels will feature a fully integrated equipment system including highly efficient diesel electric propulsion, deck machinery, bulk handling […]

  • NYK charters two LNG newbuilds

    14 May 2015
    Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) said it has concluded a basic agreement on a time-charter contract for two new liquefied natural gas carriers with Diamond Gas International, a unit of Mitsubishi Corporation.

  • NYK charters two LNG newbuilds

    14 May 2015
    Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) said it has concluded a basic agreement on a time-charter contract for two new liquefied natural gas carriers with Diamond Gas International, a unit of Mitsubishi Corporation.

  • FSRU Golar Freeze to arrive off Jamaica soon

    5 November 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels

    Nasdaq-listed Golar LNG Partners, a limited partnership formed by Golar LNG, said Monday that its floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Golar Freeze is expected to “shortly arrive” offshore Jamaica. The 125,000-cbm FSRU Golar Freeze will serve a 15-year charter for New Fortress Energy as an import facility supplying new gas-fired power plants. Golar Freeze was previously […]

  • ACWA Power commits to 3.6 GW LNG-based power plant in Bangladesh

    23 October 2019

    Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) for an LNG-based power plant and terminal in Bangladesh.

  • MHI christens JERA’s fourth Sayaringo STaGE vessel, Noshu Maru

    11 January 2019
    Vessels

    Mitsubishi Shipbuilding, a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries unit, christened the Noshu Maru, a Sayaringo STaGE LNG carrier built for the JERA and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines joint venture Trans Pacific Shipping. 

  • South Africa eyeing LNG import terminal

    8 September 2015

    South Africa’s power shortages could be nearing its end as the country is looking to build an LNG import facility at the west coast port of Saldanha Bay.

  • Tohoku Electric’s LNG consumption up in FY2015

    27 April 2016

    Tohoku Electric of Japan informed on Tuesday its LNG consumption for the Fiscal Year 2015 ending March 31, 2016, reached 4.32 million tons.

  • USA: GL Noble Denton Names Head of Marine Casualty Investigation Practice

    9 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    Mr John Walker has been appointed as head of GL Noble Denton’s growing Marine Casualty Investigation practice for the Americas region. Based in the New York office, John leads a team of expert marine engineers, master mariners and naval architects. His team play a key role in determining the cause and extent of machinery damage, […]

  • Update: Three Workers Succumb to Injuries from Bangladesh Yard Blast

    11 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    Three workers out of eight who were injured in a blast on Sunday at a shipbreaking yard, owned by Shital Enterprise, located in the Chittagong district of Bangladesh, have died having succumbed to their severe injuries. The information has been confirmed to World Maritime News by NGO Shipbreaking Platform, which is in contact with the organization’s local colleagues […]

  • SMM 2012 – Damen Shipyards Presents AHTS 200 Design

    4 September 2012
    Business & Finance

    Dutch shipbuilder Damen Shipyards has, at the SMM 2012 in Hamburg, presented its new Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel design, the AHTS 200. The anchor handler, a 200 ton bollard pull vessel is one of several designs presented by Damen at one of the biggest maritime industry events in the world, the SMM 2012. It […]

  • BP Inks USD 10 Billion LNG Deal with China Huadian

    22 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    London-based oil and gas major BP and China Huadian Corporation (Huadian) have signed a sale and purchase agreement for BP to sell Huadian up to 1 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) per year worth up to USD 10 billion over the next 20 years. The agreement was one of several signed in London during this week’s […]

  • Readers’ Picks of the Week (Dec 29th – Jan 2nd)

    4 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    Update: Burning Norman Atlantic Evacuated, Death Count Rises Italian and Greek rescue crews on Monday completed the air evacuation of 427 people from the Italian-flagged Norman Atlantic, a roro/passenger ferry that caught fire off the coast of Greece in the early hours of Sunday. 10 people died …Read more Two Dead After Ships Collide in […]

  • Total, Siemens mulling LNG-to-power project in Cuba

    1 May 2018

    A consortium comprising France’s Total and the German conglomerate Siemens are reportedly first in line to sign a deal for the construction of a 600-megawatt gas-fired power plant in Cuba.

  • RWE and Equinor ramp up hydrogen economy

    5 January 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration

    German RWE and Norwegian Equinor have entered a strategic energy partnership that includes large-scale projects that are expected to contribute to the European energy supply, ramp up the hydrogen economy in Germany and the EU, and strengthen the long-term security of the supply of a European power sector. The investments follow the construction of a […]

  • Coalition Government to Assess Future of Victoria’s Ports (Australia)

    5 March 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The Victorian Coalition Government is investigating the strategic and commercial options for the future of Victoria’s state-owned ports, Treasurer Michael O’Brien confirmed today. “The Coalition Government is carefully considering the future of Victoria’s port assets to ensure they deliver the best return to Victorian taxpayers,” Mr O’Brien said. Mr O’Brien said any future decision on […]

  • Rotterdam Wants to Become Zero-Emissions Port by 2050

    27 November 2017
    Business & Finance

    The Port of Rotterdam has laid out its vision of the future in which it aims to become a zero-emissions port by 2050, according to Remco Neumann the Port Authority’s Corporate Social Responsibility program manager. “It’s realistic to expect that industry and logistics will be virtually – or by that time, even entirely – zero-emission and […]

  • USD 37 Mln Worth Drug Bust in Caribbean Sea

    7 May 2014

    U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Puerto Rico Police seized nearly 1,125 kilograms of cocaine, with an estimated whole sale value of $37 million, and apprehended two Dominican Republic nationals during an at sea interdiction in the Caribbean Sea Wednesday. The interdiction is the result of the […]

  • Drewry: slippages from 2017 to prevent LNG charter rates recovery

    31 January 2018
    Vessels

    Increasing vessel supply will keep liquefied natural gas (LNG) charter rates under pressure in 2018, despite strong growth in trade, according to a report by the shipping consultancy Drewry. Drewry’s short-term outlook for LNG charter rates remains pessimistic because of the high fleet growth rate compared with demand, Drewry said in its latest LNG Forecaster […]

  • First Gen Corp picks JGC as Batangas LNG EPC contractor

    3 September 2019

    Philippine utility First Gen Corporation said it has selected Japan’s JGC Corporation as its preferred EPC contractor for the Batangas LNG terminal project.