Coast Guard News
April 17, 2020
The Port of Amsterdam will turn a dredging depot at the former Averijhaven into an energy port to serve as a base for the construction and maintenance of offshore wind farms.... [Read More]
April 17, 2020
The Port of Amsterdam will turn a dredging depot at the former Averijhaven into an energy port to serve as a base for the construction and maintenance of offshore wind farms.... [Read More]
April 17, 2020
The Panama Canal Authority is keeping a close eye on the challenges the industry is facing at the moment due to the COVID-19 pandemic and is bracing for various potential scenarios.
Even though the waterway remains open to facilitate global trade, there are numerous uncertainties ahead, one of them being the likelihood of shipping companies to use alternative routes to save costs and adjust their sailing routes to the fast-changing shipping schedules.... [Read More]
April 17, 2020
The Panama Canal Authority is keeping a close eye on the challenges the industry is facing at the moment due to the COVID-19 pandemic and is bracing for various potential scenarios.
Even though the waterway remains open to facilitate global trade, there are numerous uncertainties ahead, one of them being the likelihood of shipping companies to use alternative routes to save costs and adjust their sailing routes to the fast-changing shipping schedules.... [Read More]
April 17, 2020
The Panama Canal Authority is keeping a close eye on the challenges the industry is facing at the moment due to the COVID-19 pandemic and is bracing for various potential scenarios.
Even though the waterway remains open to facilitate global trade, there are numerous uncertainties ahead, one of them being the likelihood of shipping companies to use alternative routes to save costs and adjust their sailing routes to the fast-changing shipping schedules.... [Read More]
April 16, 2020
There are three potential fuel pathways toward developing zero-emission vessels and decarbonizing the future of shipping, according to ABS.... [Read More]
April 16, 2020
French shipbuilder Chantiers de l’Atlantique, mainly active in the construction of cruise ships, is currently in talks with unions on a partial resumption of production activities on April 27.
The work resumption would include production activities on vessels as well as those in workshops and would be carried out on a voluntary basis, according to the French Union Locale CGT Saint Nazaire (CGT).... [Read More]
April 16, 2020
Germany and other European countries will allow cruise lines to pause their repayments of export credit guarantees for one year, Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) said. ... [Read More]
April 16, 2020
Turkish port operator Yilport Holdings has implemented Navis Smart Compass, a visual workflow management application, at five terminals, following a pilot program in May of last year.
The application, developed by Cargotec’s Navis brand, is used to digitize the planning process and standardize the way terminals work in order to improve the quality of the planning process’ overall output and the terminal’s efficiency.
Navis said that the decision came on the back of the success of the program at Yilport’s terminals that use Navis N4.... [Read More]
April 16, 2020
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has confirmed that some of its digital tools and its website were down due to a malware attack.
The network outage which was affecting the company’s data centers in Geneva from Friday, April 10, was resolved yesterday.... [Read More]
April 16, 2020
Pin Oak Corpus Christi, a joint venture between Dauphine and commodities trader Mercuria Energy Group, received its first vessel Wednesday at its newly commissioned oil dock at the Port of Corpus Christi.
The dock, capable of accommodating fully laden bulk liquid tankers up to Suezmax class with loading rates in excess of 40,000 barrels per hour, was inaugurated by the 2005-built Aframax tanker Pacific Dawn.
The 105,700 dwt tanker is part of Teekay Axramax Pool, according to the data from VesselsValue. ... [Read More]
April 16, 2020
Klaveness Combination Carriers (KCC), part of Norway’s shipping company Torvald Klaveness, has found work for one of its CLEANBU ships.
According to the company, a second of its CLEANBU vessel has been fixed on a three-to-six-month charter for delivery within April.
Including this T/C fixture, KCC said that its fixed-rate tanker market coverage increases to around 85 per cent for the second quarter of 2020 and close to 40 per cent for the second half of 2020. ... [Read More]
April 16, 2020
Quantum of the Seas; Source: Royal Caribbean Cruises
Cruise liner major Royal Caribbean Cruises has announced major job cuts amid the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its business, targeting over 5,000 employees in the United States.... [Read More]
April 16, 2020
Finnish shipping company Lundqvist Rederierna has ordered a liquefied natural gas-powered Aframax tanker from Japan’s Sumitomo Heavy Industries.... [Read More]
April 16, 2020
Finnish technology company Wärtsilä has won a contract to update the electronic chart display and information systems (ECDIS) on board 50 tankers that frequently sail in the Baltic Sea.
The deal has been awarded within the Safety of Navigation in the Baltic Sea by Sea Traffic Management (STM Balt Safe) project.
Currently, more than 400 ships have the capability to share routes through their ECDIS. ... [Read More]
April 15, 2020
Spanish shipping company Baleària wrapped up 2019 with turnover and EBITDA growth of 19 per cent.
According to the figures recorded in the tenth Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Report for 2019 released by the company this month, the shipping line registered a turnover of EUR 452 million last year.... [Read More]
April 15, 2020
Danish bunker company Monjasa reported an improved business performance on the back of the sulphur cap regulation that entered into force on January 1, 2020, marking a global transition of ships to cleaner fuels.
The company said that its volumes were up by 10 per cent reaching 4.5 million metric tons (mts) driven primarily by greater demand from the Americas. The demand saw a 35% increase from the region reaching a total of 1,150,000 mts. ... [Read More]
April 15, 2020
The Energy Market Authority (EMA) and Keppel Offshore & Marine have established a $10 million partnership and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop energy solutions in the areas of distributed energy resources, digitalisation, and emerging low carbon alternatives.
As part of this MOU, EMA and Keppel are launching a grant call for
solutions relating to energy storage systems and smart power grids for the
offshore and marine environment.... [Read More]
April 15, 2020
A total of 140 crew members of the cruise ship Ruby Princess, which is still docked in Australian waters, have tested positive for COVID-19.
The figure is being revealed after 13 more crew members tested positive to the virus in the latest round of testing, data from the New South Wales Ministry of Health (NSW Health) shows.
In addition, there are 12 Ruby Princess crew members with COVID-19 in health facilities in NSW. The vessel has a total of 1,040 crew members on board.... [Read More]
April 15, 2020
Houlder, a London-based design & engineering consultancy for the marine, energy and defence markets, has commenced work in partnership with PMW Technology on a study to evaluate the potential marine applications of carbon capture technology.
PMW Technology is among the latest organisations to receive funding from the UK Government’s Department for Transport’s Transport-Technology Research Innovation Grant (T-TRIG). ... [Read More]