ORBCOMM today announced the launch of CrewView, an onboard visibility solution that enables crews to monitor and manage smart refrigerated and dry containers in real time while in transit. Designed to close the visibility gap at sea, CrewView enables early detection...

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The maritime industry has been promised “transformation” for over a decade. Most of it was never delivered. Seaber, the European software company behind a smarter way to schedule bulk and tanker shipping, is done waiting. Today, Seaber is launching the new entry-level...

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Governments should consider the safety issues of shadow fleet tankers when enacting sanction regimes, some industry players said June 3, as the number of such ships continues to grow. Russia, Iran and Venezuela, faced with tightening Western sanctions, have been...

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Canadian heavy crude price discounts tightened on June 2 as wildfires sweeping across northern Canada caused producers to shut in nearly 350,000 b/d of output. Western Canadian Select at Hardisty, Alberta, was traded at an $8.50/b discount to WTI early June 2,...

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Survitec, a global leader in Survival Technology, has successfully completed extensive performance testing of new alcohol-resistant fluorine-free firefighting foam concentrates. The results validate the compatibility of the new foam concentrates with marine foam...

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Marubeni Corporation (hereinafter, “Marubeni”) has reached an agreement to invest in Gearbulk Holding AG (hereinafter, “Gearbulk”), the world’s largest open hatch* shipping operator, headquartered in Switzerland. The investment will be executed upon the fulfillment of...

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