The UK’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has released new guidance on the use of ammonia as a marine fuel, marking a ‘vital’ step toward enabling wider alternative fuel adoption in the country’s shipping industry. As disclosed, the guidelines, issued on April 16, 2025, provide a framework for o
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has introduced a bill to stop drilling off the coast of New England to protect ocean and coastal resources.
The UK-based energy company Centrica Offshore has received an extension of its license to operate a gas storage site in the Southern North Sea off the East Coast of England from the UK regulator, North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA).
Italy’s oil & gas giant Eni has reached financial close with the UK Government for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in northern England, now free to move to the construction phase. Eni announced today, April 24, that it had reached financial close with the Department of Energy Security and
French classification society Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore (BV) has been selected to class a series of methanol-ready oil and chemical tankers for UK shipping company Union Maritime, which are currently being equipped with wind propulsion systems, including Norsepower rotor sails.
The US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has designated the Chinese-Polish state-owned Joint Stock Shipping Company (Chipolbrok) as a ‘controlled carrier’ of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). As disclosed, the FMC has determined that the government of China was exerting more control over Shangha
Gen2 Energy and Farsund municipality have signed an agreement under which Gen2 Energy can secure, on a long-term basis, the industrial site Lundevågen Havneområde in Farsund to build a production facility for green hydrogen.
A German consortium consisting of the Institute for Micro Process Engineering and the Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the KIT spin-off ICODOS and the Waste Water Department of the City of Mannheim have began operation of a demonstratio
Dozens of workers have been treated for injuries following an explosion and a fire on an oil platform off the coast of Brazil operated by the state-owned energy giant Petrobras.
The Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonization (GCMD) has unpacked a cost and compliance calculator aimed at exploring how the International Maritime Organization’s GHG Global Fuel Intensify (GFI)-linked pricing system could impact operational costs in shipping. As noted by the GCMD, the tool could
China’s state-owned giant COSCO Shipping has strongly opposed the recent US move targeting China’s maritime logistics and shipbuilding sectors, calling it “discriminatory” and “harmful” to global trade stability. In response to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR)’s new decisi
The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) is on a quest to fulfill the Trump administration’s energy dominance dreams by laying the groundwork to revise the scaled-back oil and gas leasing program, which comes with only three lease sales up to 2029.
The World Shipping Council (WSC)—the voice of liner shipping—has expressed ‘serious’ concerns regarding the new port fee regime announced by the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), cautioning that the measures could undermine American trade, hurt U.S. producers, and weaken efforts to strengthen the na
Following a bipartite dialogue between shipowners and seafarers’ unions, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has wrapped up the latest round of negotiations concerning the minimum wage for able seafarers. As informed, an agreement was reached at a meeting of the Joint Maritime Commission’s (
