Green Marine
CDB Leasing splashes $417.6 million on eight bulkers
China Development Bank Financial Leasing (CDB) has signed contracts with three compatriot shipbuilders for the purchase of eight 210,000-ton bulkers. As disclosed in a stock exchange filing, two ships from the batch would be built by Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry, while Yangzhou COSCO S
Port of Charleston gets new stevedoring company
Marine Terminals Corporation – East (Ports America), Ceres Marine Terminals Inc., and SSA Atlantic LLC have formed a joint venture company to provide container terminal and stevedoring services in the Port of Charleston in South Carolina.
SMM Hamburg postponed to February 2021
SMM Hamburg, the world’s largest international shipbuilding and marine industry fair, which usually takes place in September has been rescheduled due to the coronavirus pandemic measures still in place. “Looking at the restrictions on major events as well as the international travel bans due to the
Carnival wants to resume cruising in August
Cruise shipping giant Carnival Corporation has revealed plans to resume sailing at the beginning of August. The phase-in sailings would be introduced in the company’s North America service with a total of eight ships from Miami, Port Canaveral, and Galveston. The ships in question involve Carnival D
Germany seizes half a tonne of cocaine on bulker at Port of Hamburg
Customs officers have found around 500 kilograms of cocaine on board a bulker that recently arrived in the Port of Hamburg.
AMSA detains bulker for breaching IMO carriage ban
Australian authorities have detained a bulker identified as African Heron for carrying high sulfur fuel oil. “The vessel was found to have non-compliant fuel oil on board with sulphur content above 0.5%. This is not permitted under the carriage ban on non-compliant fuel in Annex VI of MARPOL that ca
DNV GL, Alpha Ori to jointly support digital transformation in shipping
DNV GL and Alpha Ori Technologies (AOT) have signed MoU in which they agree to work together to contribute to the marine industry’s ongoing digital transformation.
Survey: Seafarers feel trapped and unprotected during the COVID-19 pandemic
Limited shore leave, growing workload, and extended time at sea are taking their toll on the seafarers’ health and wellbeing during the pandemic, according to the latest survey published by the Mission to Seafarers. “The report has revealed that seafarer happiness is lower, with clear concerns about
Kotug becomes full owner of Marsol
Kotug has completed the 100 per cent acquisition of Marsol, an offshore and marine terminal service centre specialized in offshore single point mooring (SPM) buoy terminals and its related infrastructure.
European ports hit the hardest by blanking of sailings
The staggering volume of blank sailings announced by ocean carriers in response to dwindling demand caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is having a ripple effect on global ports. The impact of the trend has been relatively limited in the first quarter of the year, however, concerns have already been rai
GAC testing delivery of supplies to vessels via drones
Gulf Agency Company (GAC) has partnered with Singapore-based start-up F-drones to develop large-scale drones that can deliver up to 100kg of supplies over 100km to vessels and offshore platforms. The international ship agency said that testing was underway on F-drones’ 3rd prototype that is capable
Dryad: 16 mariners kidnapped in five days
Over the past five days, a total of 16 seafarers were kidnapped by pirates off the coast of West Africa, marking a continuation of rampant pirate activity in the region. Ten mariners were kidnapped in an attack reported by Dryad on April 30, when pirates boarded Panama-flagged oil products tanker MT
New EU Transport Strategy: Ports suggest two-step approach
The European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) has proposed a two-step approach to the new EU Transport Strategy amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Salvors remove all cargo from grounded MV Kaami
On 30 April, salvors successfully offloaded the last recoverable cargo material from MV Kaami, a cargo vessel that ran aground in the Minch between Skye and Lewis, Scotland, in late March.