A Malta-flagged tanker sustained damages following a mine explosion in the Red Sea, about 125 miles north of Saudi Arabia’s border with Yemen.
The United Nations has received official approval from the Houthi authorities in Yemen to carry out the planned expert mission to the decaying FSO Safer oil tanker, which poses a danger of massive oil spill to the region. The Safer oil tanker is moored north of Hodeidah and is believed to be loaded
Uniper Energy DMCC (UED), a supplier of very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO), and Neutral Fuels, a pioneer of net zero biofuels in the UAE, have teamed up to provide maritime biofuel in Fujairah, UAE. The two companies plan to blend UED’s VLSFO and Neutral Fuels biofuel, creating a maritime fuel that m
Danish bunker company Monjasa has acquired an oil and chemical tanker from Golden-Agri Stena to support the increasing demand for its fuel solutions. The 9,600-dwt vessel, formerly known as GS Adventure, has been renamed Monjasa Server and is set to start cargo and bunkering operations in the Arabia
Chemical services company AquaChemie Middle East, part of the UAE-based AquaChemie Group, today broke ground on its petrochemical terminal in DP World’s flagship, Jebel Ali Port, Dubai. The specialized bulk storage terminal will have a total envisaged capacity of around 40,000 CBM, out of which 35,0
Jeddah Port’s Red Sea Gateway Terminal has taken delivery of two remote-controlled Ship-to-Shore (STS) cranes, and 10 hybrid-Rubber-Tyred Gantry Cranes (RTGs), as part of its planned expansion. Namely the terminal aims to double its annual container throughput capacity to 5.2 million TEUs by 2023. T
Achieving a more sustainable system will require a diverse energy mix – if we make the right choices. The energy transition has been talked about for many years, but now the pandemic has given the world an opportunity to make it happen more quickly. During the recently completed 13th Offshore Energy
Bahri, a national shipping carrier of Saudi Arabia, has signed a five-year framework agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Presidency of State Security (PSS), the country’s security body.
A joint venture between Euronav and International Seaways has been awarded a 10-year contract extension for FSO duo operating on the Al-Shaheen field.
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With the energy transition well underway not only in the energy production area, but in almost all other industries, the shipping sector also needs to be looking at what fuels will be used to power the ships in the near future. Naval Architect Harry Linskens from DEKC Maritime has discussed efficien
On 26 October, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions on the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC), the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), and the Iranian Ministry of Petroleum, representing America’s latest attempt to increase economic
Saudi Arabia’s Bahri, the world’s largest owner and operator of very large crude carriers (VLCCs), closed the third quarter of this year with a 114% rise in its net profit that was attributed to improvement in operations.
The crew of the crude oil tanker MV Gulf Sky remains unpaid for months, according to the maritime NGO Human Rights at Sea (HRAS). The crew’s wages haven’t been paid since March 2020 totaling in excess of $197,000, while the crew’s Continuous Discharge Certificates (CDCs) are still retained by UAE au
