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The Ports Of Antwerp And Zeebrugge To Join Forces

The Ports Of Antwerp And Zeebrugge To Join Forces

The City of Antwerp and the City of Bruges have reached an agreement to merge their respective ports. The two-city...
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Wärtsilä To Provide Predictive Maintenance For Two Siem Offshore Vessels

Wärtsilä To Provide Predictive Maintenance For Two Siem Offshore Vessels

Wärtsilä has signed an agreement with Siem Offshore covering reduction in emissions and predictive maintenance for two well intervention vessels....
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Kongsberg Digital Enters Partnership With Nautilus Labs

Kongsberg Digital Enters Partnership With Nautilus Labs

Kongsberg Digital and Nautilus Labs are pleased to announce a partnership to include the Nautilus Platform fleet and voyage optimization...
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ZIM In Billion-dollar LNG-powered Containerships Charter Deal With Seaspan

ZIM In Billion-dollar LNG-powered Containerships Charter Deal With Seaspan

ZIM is the latest container line to opt for LNG-powered vessels in a more than a billion-dollar long-term charter deal...
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BIMCO Seeks Industry Help To Combat Fake Contracts

BIMCO Seeks Industry Help To Combat Fake Contracts

BIMCO will add BIMCO’s Contract Authenticity Clause to all their new and revised BIMCO contracts. Users can also incorporate the...
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FAL Convention At Heart Of IMO Response To Illegal Wildlife Trade

FAL Convention At Heart Of IMO Response To Illegal Wildlife Trade

As is the case for other goods being carried by sea, much of the world’s illegal wildlife trade is transported onboard vessels, underscoring the...
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Northwest Passage Expedition Seeks Maritime Partners

Northwest Passage Expedition Seeks Maritime Partners

Ambitious plans for a team of experienced blue-water rowers to cross the 2,300 mile Arctic route between the Atlantic and...
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Neoline’s Sailing Cargo Ships To Transport Michelin Products

Neoline’s Sailing Cargo Ships To Transport Michelin Products

French tyre manufacturer Michelin has signed a letter of commitment for maritime transport with Neoline, a compatriot shipowner offering carbon-free...
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U.S. Coast Guard Calls On Ports To Report Exposure To SolarWinds Hack

U.S. Coast Guard Calls On Ports To Report Exposure To SolarWinds Hack

The U.S. Coast Guard is calling on port and terminal operators to self-report if they have been exposed to the...
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Parliament Passes Landmark Major Port Authorities Bill, 2020

Parliament Passes Landmark Major Port Authorities Bill, 2020

Parliament today passed Major Port Authorities Bill, 2020. Shri Mansukh Mandavia, Minister of State (I / C) Ports, Shipping and...
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ABS Chairman Christopher Wiernicki Elected To National Academy Of Engineering

ABS Chairman Christopher Wiernicki Elected To National Academy Of Engineering

ABS chairman, president and ceo Christopher J. Wiernicki has been elected to the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Wiernicki...
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Taicang To Work With Shanghai Port On Container Terminal Development

Taicang To Work With Shanghai Port On Container Terminal Development

Taicang and Shanghai ports have signed a cooperation agreement to jointly develop the fourth phase container terminal at Taicang and...
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Seanergy Maritime Says Its Capesizes Meet 2030 GHG Requirements

Seanergy Maritime Says Its Capesizes Meet 2030 GHG Requirements

Athens-based pure-play Capesize vessel owner Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. announced that its existing fleet will remain compliant with applicable greenhouse gas...
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HMM Posts Record Operating Profit In 2020

HMM Posts Record Operating Profit In 2020

Despite the negative effects of COVID-19, South Korea’s national flagship carrier HMM closed 2020 with a significant earnings boost. The...
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Hyundai Samho Wins $216 Million Deal For Containership Duo

Hyundai Samho Wins $216 Million Deal For Containership Duo

South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries has secured an order for the construction of two containerships from an unnamed...
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Proposal: IMO Needs To Reconsider Draft Sewage Regulation

Proposal: IMO Needs To Reconsider Draft Sewage Regulation

Together with a number of member states and international organisations, BIMCO has proposed that the IMO should reconsider the direction,...
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Columbia Shipmanagement Appoints New Head Of Asia Region

Columbia Shipmanagement Appoints New Head Of Asia Region

Columbia Shipmanagement (CSM) has appointed Demetris Chrysostomou as its new Managing Director of Asia region, working out of the Singapore...
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Singapore Conducts One-time Covid-19 Test Sweep On All Harbour Craft Crew

Singapore Conducts One-time Covid-19 Test Sweep On All Harbour Craft Crew

Singapore has conducted a one-time Covid-19 test of 825 crew onboard 98 harbour craft with all the results returning negative,...
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Port Worker Vaccination And Boxship Queues Highlighted At US Maritime Transportation Sub-committee

Port Worker Vaccination And Boxship Queues Highlighted At US Maritime Transportation Sub-committee

A meeting of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Sub-committee saw the issues of stevedores as key workers for vaccinations,...
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Maersk Sues Glencore Over Bad Bunkers

Maersk Sues Glencore Over Bad Bunkers

Danish logistics giant Maersk has filed a lawsuit against commodity trader Glencore Ltd over contaminated bunker fuel supplied to two...
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