Green Marine
Baleària Orders Spain’s First Pure-Gas Marine Engine
Rolls-Royce has signed a collaboration agreement with Spanish energy company Gas Natural Fenosa to develop and install a pure-gas Bergen engine aboard the Baleària-operated ferry Abel Matutes. The contract gives Rolls-Royce its first reference for a pure-gas engine installation on a European-flagged
Image of the Day: CSL Boxship Connects Adriatic to Far East
The image shows the giant containership Xin Qin Huang Dao, owned by CSL, being towed to the Vecon container terminal of Porto Marghera in Venice, Italy. The 69308-tonne Xin Qin Huang Dao is one of the 10 ships that shipping companies CMA-CGM, China Shipping Container Line (CSL) and UASC, partnering
Lysblink Seaways Refloats
The grounded vessel Lysblink Seaways self-floated from the foreshore at Kilchoan shortly before 9 pm on Thursday 19 February, the UK Coastguard agency reported. The vessel is now anchored close to the location of the grounding. The salvage team and two salvage vessels remain on scene and the crew re
Gazprom Starts First Yamal Oil Winter Shipment
Russia’s Gazprom Neft has made its first ever winter shipment of oil from the Novy Port (Novoportovskoye) field on the Yamal Peninsula. A tanker carrying 16,000 tonnes of crude oil, escorted by an Atomflot atomic icebreaker, will deliver the cargo at the beginning of March. Over 50,000 tonnes of oil
Eitzen Calls for Bermuda Move
Eitzen Chemical ASA sent out a letter to its shareholders with a recommendation from the Board to accept the exchange offer from Team Tankers International (TTI) for the company’s move to Bermuda. Team Tankers International is a company established by Eitzen Chemical with the sole purpose to move it
SGMF Issues First LNG Bunkering Safety Guidelines
The Society for Gas as a Marine Fuel (SGMF) has released its first edition of the LNG Bunkering – Safety Guidelines. The objective of the guidelines is to provide the bunkering industry with the best practices in order to ensure that gas- fuelled ships are re-fuelled with high levels of safety, inte
Yara Gas III Taking on Water
Crew members of Norwegian-flagged gas tanker Yara Gas III have requested assistance earlier today as their vessel started taking in water while en route in North Sea. As reported by local media, the ship got stranded some 50 nautical miles east of Ekofisk oil field, about 320 km southwest of Stavang
Rio Tinto Charters Diana Capesize Pair
NYSE-listed dry bulk carrier Diana Shipping has chartered out two Capesizes, MV Semirio and MV Sideris GS, to Rio Tinto Shipping (Asia). The gross charter rate for the 174,261 dwt, 2007-built MV Semirio is USD 10,000 per day for a period of minimum twelve months to maximum sixteen months. The charte
More Diesel Oil Leaks from Lysblink Seaway
There has been a further release of diesel oil from the cargo vessel ‘Lysblink Seaway’, which remains aground at Kilchoan, off Scotland, the UK’s Maritime Coastguard Agency (MCA) said in an update. Lysblink Seaways, owned by Copenhagen-based DFDS Logistics Rederi AS, ran aground north of the Isle of
VIDEO: Freighter Sinks in the Black Sea
St. Kitts and Nevis-flagged general cargo ship Fort Azov sank yesterday in the Black Sea, one mile off the coast near the town of Ayancik in Turkey’s Sinop province, the Haber Turk reports. The 1970-built freighter was carrying a 3,000 ton shipment of wood from Varna, Bulgaria, when it developed a h
Norden Pays for Charter Rate Cuts
Danish shipping company Dampskibsselskabet Norden A/S has entered into agreement on reduction of future time charter payments with unnamed Japanese shipowners, relating to nine vessels on long-term charter. The company did not disclose any details regarding the type of vessels in question. As part o
Tanker Investments to Tap Into Stronger Tanker Market
Oslo-listed investment company Tanker Investment is ready to tap into the potential of strengthening tanker market fundamentals, according to William Hung, Tanker Investments’ Chief Executive Officer. The global mid-size tanker fleet is expected to shrink in 2015, fueling increasing tanker demand as
EU Bankrolls Scandlines Green Ferries
The European Union has through its TEN-T Programme set aside over EUR 2 million (USD 2.28m) for the upgrade of two Scandlines ferries navigating in the Baltic Sea to the mixed use of electricity and fuel. This project will retrofit two ferries ensuring the link between Rødby (Denmark) and Puttgarden
Global Container Volumes Rise
Global TEU volumes increased by 4% in 2014 to 135.4 million TEUs, the Port of Rotterdam Authority reports. Inter‐continental trade rose by 3.4%, while intra‐regional volumes increased by 5.4% to 30.4 million TEUs. 2014 TEU volumes carried to and from Europe (including all countries bordering the Med