Green Marine
Antwerp Ro/Ro Terminals Go Paperless
The Antwerp Port Community System (APCS) introduced the e-Desk for containers already in 2012, and this year the successful collaboration has been extended to rolling stock. The port of Zeebrugge (ICO and WWL) started the e-Desk for ro/ro in February, and now the Antwerp terminals are following suit
NITC Claims EU Sanctions Annulled
European Union sanctions against Iran’s largest oil tanker company NITC have been lifted after there was no appeal by the EU to the General Court’s ruling against the EU’s 2012 blacklisting designation of the company, NITC said. An EU official told Reuters that the time for appeal had expired, but t
Maersk Tankers Opts for Transas ECDIS
Maersk Tankers has selected Transas to implement ECDIS compliance program across its 75 strong fleet to meet the IMO requirement for ECDIS on board all tankers over 3,000 gross metric tonnes from July 1, 2015. The agreement includes ECDIS installations for both retrofit and for newbuilt vessels for
US Clears 2M Alliance
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has approved the planned 2M vessel sharing agreement between Denmark’s Maersk Line and Swiss Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC), the world’s two largest container shippers, Reuters reports. The U.S. approval is reportedly to become effective on Saturday, Octob
Update: Radioactive Waste Ship Towed to Safety
The Denmark-registered Parida, laden with radioactive concrete waste, which had lost power and was adrift south east of Wick, Scotland, is currently anchored close to the entrance of the Cromarty Firth, The Inverness Courier reports. Parida was towed to the Cromarty Firth by the Pacific Champion. St
EU to Improve Port Services Rules
European Union’s Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council adopted a general approach on new rules for access to the port services market in the EU and the financial transparency of ports. The ministers agreed that the regulation would cover all seaports listed in the trans-European transport
Demand for Global Shipping Industry to Dwindle?
The global shipping industry will see lower demand in coming years, all other things being equal, than was previously expected due to fragile and uneven global recovery, according to BIMCO. According to the latest Update of the World Economic Outlook from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the g
Drewry: Mega Alliances Will Help Container Industry Recover
Drewry’s Container Annual Review & Forecast 2014/15 emphasises that the recovery of the container industry, when that happens – possibly by late 2016 or 2017 – is to be based around the formation of the new mega alliances and the continued reduction of unit costs, rather than the matching of supply
Polar Cruising Safer with Depth Sounding Data Sharing
The Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators (AECO) and the International Association for Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO), in cooperation with Lindblad Expeditions, have found a way for cruise operators to share years of depth soundings from the Arctic and Antarctica. Existing crowdsourci
Europe Still Sick, Asia to Spearhead 2015 Economy
Maersk held ‘The Future of Global Trade’ symposium at its headquarters in Copenhagen on Tuesday, October 7, 2014. Simon Baptist, Chief Economist and Asia Regional Director at The Economist addressed the state of the global economy, regional powerhouses, stagnating markets as well as future drivers o
Finnlines Again to Cut Jobs
North European liner-shipping company Finnlines Plc has started employer-employee co-operation negotiations concerning the crew serving the Ro-Ro/Passenger ferry MS Finnsailor, which could lead to 52 of the company’s sea personnel losing their jobs. The crew of Finnsailor might go down the same path
Golden Ocean, Knightsbridge Merging
Dry bulk shipping companies Golden Ocean Group Limited and Knightsbridge Shipping Limited have agreed to merge, with Knightsbridge as the surviving legal entity. Completion of the merger is also subject to the execution of certain definitive documents, customary closing conditions and regulatory app
Oil Price Drop Hurting OW Bunker
Denmark’s OW Bunker, a global marine fuel (bunker) company, changed its full-year profit guidance from a previously expected increase in profit for the year in line with the growth in marine fuel transaction volume, to a full year result around 20% lower than the result of 2013, due to the recent sl
Interview: Attaining Business Intelligence
In a world swamped by software solutions providing various types of information and data it has become difficult to choose those tools that extract the data we actually need. Ships have been integrating these high-tech solutions at an ever growing pace, becoming more automated and reliant on technol