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Shipping Faces New Turmoil In European Emissions Trading Plan

Shipping Faces New Turmoil In European Emissions Trading Plan

Cooperation in the shipping industry to cut pollution from oceangoing vessels is running aground in Europe. The European Union is...
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China To Further Cut Crude Steel Output For Carbon Neutrality Goal

China To Further Cut Crude Steel Output For Carbon Neutrality Goal

China will resolutely cut the output of crude steel and ensure it falls year on year in 2021, a senior...
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Saudi Arabia Expected To Raise February Crude Prices For Asia: Survey

Saudi Arabia Expected To Raise February Crude Prices For Asia: Survey

Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia is expected to raise its official selling prices (OSPs) for Asian buyers for a second straight month...
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Oil demand won’t fully recover until 2022 — IHS Markit

Oil demand won’t fully recover until 2022 — IHS Markit

Global oil demand will likely take another year or so to return to pre-pandemic levels — by late 2021 or...
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Navigator Holdings Ltd. Announces Closing Of The Sale of 39.1% Equity Interest To BW Group Limited and Changes To The Board of Directors

Navigator Holdings Ltd. Announces Closing Of The Sale of 39.1% Equity Interest To BW Group Limited and Changes To The Board of Directors

Navigator Holdings Ltd., today announced that the previously announced sale by funds managed by WL Ross & Co. LLC (“WL...
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COSCO Faces Backlash As It Moves To Tighten Grip On Greek Port

COSCO Faces Backlash As It Moves To Tighten Grip On Greek Port

Global conglomerate China COSCO Shipping is gearing up for a fight as it seeks to tighten its grip over the...
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UAE Emerges As Hub For Companies Helping Venezuela Avoid U.S. Oil Sanctions

UAE Emerges As Hub For Companies Helping Venezuela Avoid U.S. Oil Sanctions

In June, the United States imposed sanctions on half a dozen oil tankers managed by established shipping firms. It was...
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Adani Ports Jumps, Crosses ₹1 Trillion In Market Capitalization

Adani Ports Jumps, Crosses ₹1 Trillion In Market Capitalization

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd crossed ₹1 trillion in market capitalisation for the first time on Monday after...
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USCG Vessel Spills Oil In Alaska

USCG Vessel Spills Oil In Alaska

On 26 December, USCG said it responded “to a report of a discharge of hydraulic oil from Coast Guard Cutter Spar”....
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Plocan Tackles Underwater Noise From Shipping

Plocan Tackles Underwater Noise From Shipping

Plocan is in charge of developing a Virtual Research Environment that collects and allows external users to access to the...
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Maersk Elba Loses Power After Fire Off Portugal

Maersk Elba Loses Power After Fire Off Portugal

The vessel in question is the 13,092 TEU Maersk Elba, owned by Japan’s Financial Products Group. At the time of...
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Seaways Shipping Inks Pact With MOL Logistics For Supply Chain Services

Seaways Shipping Inks Pact With MOL Logistics For Supply Chain Services

Hydearbad-based Seaways' group flagship Seaways Shipping and Logistics on Monday said it has entered into a pact with the MOL Logistics (India) for providing...
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Bunker Suppliers Reliance, IOC, BP, HP & Nayara Gets Show-Cause Notice For Violating Surveillance Audit

Bunker Suppliers Reliance, IOC, BP, HP & Nayara Gets Show-Cause Notice For Violating Surveillance Audit

The Directorate General of Shipping has sought an explanation from ship fuel (bunker) suppliers such as Reliance Industries, Indian Oil...
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China Okays KSOE-DSME Merger

China Okays KSOE-DSME Merger

China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) recently informed KSOE that the proposed business combination with DSME would not violate...
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Panama Canal Wait Time Rise For Asia-bound LNG Cargoes Without Reservations

Panama Canal Wait Time Rise For Asia-bound LNG Cargoes Without Reservations

Average Panama Canal passage wait times for Asia-bound LNG tankers from the US Gulf Coast without reservations are up to...
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South Korea Unveils Initiative To Promote Eco-Friendly Ship Technologies

South Korea Unveils Initiative To Promote Eco-Friendly Ship Technologies

Entitled “2030 Green Ship-K Initiative”, it is part of the country’s Act on Promotion of the Development and Distribution of Eco-Friendly...
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CMA CGM Names 4th 23,000 TEU LNG-Powered Boxship

CMA CGM Names 4th 23,000 TEU LNG-Powered Boxship

The naming ceremony was held on December 22 in Shanghai. She is the 4th of the nine 23,000 LNG-powered vessels...
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OPEC: Oil Market Review Of 2020 And Outlook For 2021

OPEC: Oil Market Review Of 2020 And Outlook For 2021

While 2020 began on relatively solid footing, the COVID-19 pandemic upended all expectations, especially for 1H2020. Indeed, global growth recovered...
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As 2021 Will Bring The Largest Crude Deficits In Years, A Window Of Opportunity Opens For Producers

As 2021 Will Bring The Largest Crude Deficits In Years, A Window Of Opportunity Opens For Producers

The Covid-19 pandemic has devastated crude and condensate demand in 2021, creating massive supply surpluses and filling up inventories, causing...
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Container Debris “Sprouts up” on Oregon Coast

Container Debris “Sprouts up” on Oregon Coast

The Oregon State Parks authority is responding to reports of debris from a cargo container washing up on the coastline....
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