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Geodis Expands And Renames Its Specialist Project Logistics Business

Geodis Expands And Renames Its Specialist Project Logistics Business

Leading logistics services provider Geodis is widening its range of worldwide project logistics services and re-branding the business. The business...
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WSC: Collaboration Not Regulation To Address Shipping Challenges

WSC: Collaboration Not Regulation To Address Shipping Challenges

With growing calls from manufacturers, retailers and trade associations for governments to increase their oversight and regulations of the global...
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Singapore Port Achieves Strong Performance Despite Covid-19 Pandemic

Singapore Port Achieves Strong Performance Despite Covid-19 Pandemic

Singapore has retained its position as the world’s second busiest container port and the number one bunkering port in 2020,...
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International Investors Call On UN For Actions To Protect Seafarers

International Investors Call On UN For Actions To Protect Seafarers

A group of 85 institutional investors representing over $2 trillion in assets, joined forces calling on the United Nations to...
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Port Of Gdansk’s €1.3 Billion Infrastructure Investment Plan On Track To Conclude In 2021

Port Of Gdansk’s €1.3 Billion Infrastructure Investment Plan On Track To Conclude In 2021

The Port of Gdansk expects its €1.3 billion infrastructure investments program to be completed in 2021.  The investments focus on...
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BIMCO Launches Initiative To Raise Awareness About The Crucial Role Of Shipping

BIMCO Launches Initiative To Raise Awareness About The Crucial Role Of Shipping

The year 2020 has been a tremendous test for the shipping industry and its seafarers. With the aim to raise...
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Maersk Renews And Expands Partnership To Rid Oceans Of Plastic

Maersk Renews And Expands Partnership To Rid Oceans Of Plastic

A.P. Moller-Maersk announced a three-year extension and expansion of its partnership with The Ocean Cleanup, a foundation dedicated to ridding...
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Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. Announces Successful Completion Of $179 Million Financial Restructuring

Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. Announces Successful Completion Of $179 Million Financial Restructuring

Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. announced today that it has reached final agreements with certain of its senior lenders and junior...
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Qatargas Completes First Commercial Ship-To-Ship Transfer Of LNG Cargo At Subic Bay In Philippines

Qatargas Completes First Commercial Ship-To-Ship Transfer Of LNG Cargo At Subic Bay In Philippines

Qatargas Operating Company Limited (Qatargas) announced today the completion of the first-ever commercial ship-to-ship (STS) transfer of a liquefied natural...
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China’s Ban On Australian Coal Forces Trade Flows To Realign

China’s Ban On Australian Coal Forces Trade Flows To Realign

China’s effective ban on imports of Australian coal is forcing a realignment of flows between the world’s two biggest importers...
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Royal Dutch Shell To Cut More Than 300 North Sea Jobs

Royal Dutch Shell To Cut More Than 300 North Sea Jobs

The oil giant Royal Dutch Shell is to cut 330 jobs from its operations in the North Sea. The company...
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Holland Shipyards Group To Build 3 More Hybrid Ferries For SFK

Holland Shipyards Group To Build 3 More Hybrid Ferries For SFK

Dutch ship designer and builder Holland Shipyards Group has signed a contract to build three additional hybrid ferries for Germany’s...
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Coronavirus Impact: Cargo Traffic Falls At India’s Top Ports For 9th Straight Month In December

Coronavirus Impact: Cargo Traffic Falls At India’s Top Ports For 9th Straight Month In December

Impacted by COVID-19 pandemic, India's top 12 ports witnessed a considerable decline in cargo traffic for the ninth straight month...
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Paradip Port Trust Seeks Bids For Western Dock Terminal

Paradip Port Trust Seeks Bids For Western Dock Terminal

Paradip Port Trust, India’s biggest state-owned cargo handler by volumes, has sought initial bids from private firms to build a...
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Pacific International Lines Pleads Guilty in U.S. Pollution Case

Pacific International Lines Pleads Guilty in U.S. Pollution Case

For the second time in two months, the U.S. Attorney General’s office has obtained a guilty plea from a shipping...
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Alang Goes Green

Alang Goes Green

Ship recycling plots in Alang, home to the world’s largest stretch of shipbreaking facilities in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district, beached 196...
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Nor-Shipping 2021 Postponed Until Early 2022 Due to Pandemic

Nor-Shipping 2021 Postponed Until Early 2022 Due to Pandemic

The prominent maritime industry conference Nor-Shipping has decided to postpone its program for June 2021, pushing the event back to January 10-13,...
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Over 4 lakh Indian Seafarers To Get PF, Gratuity And Pension Benefits

Over 4 lakh Indian Seafarers To Get PF, Gratuity And Pension Benefits

Around four lakh Indian seafarers of all ranks working on board Indian and foreign flagged ships will get provident fund,...
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South Korea Prepares Legal Action Against Iran Over Oil Tanker Seizure

South Korea Prepares Legal Action Against Iran Over Oil Tanker Seizure

Seoul is preparing to take legal action against Iran over the seizure of a South Korean oil tanker in the...
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Port Hedland Welcomes First LNG-fueled Vessel

Port Hedland Welcomes First LNG-fueled Vessel

The bulk carrier HL Green received a special greeting when it arrived on its maiden voyage to Port Hedland on...
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