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Containers
Liners get a preview of alternative fuel costs
Two German consultancies have collaborated to pen a detailed report on expected bunker costs for the largest boxships afloat, the…
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Environment
Platts to launch first carbon-accounted tanker assessments as shipping faces EU emission trading system coverage
S&P Global Commodity Insights has announced it will launch daily Platts price assessments for freight emissions under the European Union’s…
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Containers
Africa Express Line orders large reefers
Africa Express Line (AEL), the British subsidiary of Marseilles-based Compagnie Fruitière, has ordered for four conventional reefer cargo vessels at…
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Operations
UKHO to ditch printing charts
In arguably the most graphic example of shipping’s headlong rush to digitalise, the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) yesterday announced plans…
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Bunkering
NYK starts Japan’s first 100% biofuel supply trial for ships
Japanese shipping giant Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) have started a test navigation using Neste renewable diesel (NesteRD) supplied by Itochu…
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Greater China
Cosco and SIPG form transport JV with China’s largest car manufacturer
Three Chinese companies are joining forces to ship cars. Cosco Shipping Specialized Carriers will work with Shanghai International Port Group’s…
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Asia
Singapore opens R&D ocean basin facility
Singapore’s first ocean basin facility officially opened yesterday at the Technology Centre for Offshore and Marine, Singapore (TCOMS) located at…
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Splash Extra
Batteries on a charge
“Now we seem to be getting somewhere,” enthused Splash lead commentator Andrew Craig-Bennett on reading our report earlier this month…
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Dry Cargo
All eyes on Chornomorsk for signs of grain movement out of the Black Sea
Those involved in the global transport of grain are watching the port of Chornomorsk, southwest of Odesa, closely today, looking…
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Asia
Default causes alarm for the largest shipping company in the Philippines
The financial situation at the largest shipping company in the Philippines has been brought into focus after a sister firm…
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Finance and Insurance
Wakashio claims row escalates
Yesterday marked the second anniversary of the grounding of the Wakashio bulk carrier off Mauritius, the most high profile shipping…
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Bunkering
Global drop-in biofuels pilot project launches
The Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD) is leading a consortium of 18 industry partners to launch a drop-in biofuels…
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Dry Cargo
Owners and insurers wary of Ukraine grain deal
Shipowners and insurers are reacting with caution to Friday’s news of a deal hammered out between Russia and Ukraine, assisted…
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Containers
‘Startling’ amount of boxships changing hands confounds the doomsayers
Many analysts have been suggesting container shipping’s boom period is coming to a close, pointing to myriad freight indices that…
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Operations
Seafarers on edge as monkeypox declared a global public health emergency
Seafarers around the world are bracing for possible further inconveniences from port states in the wake of the World Health…
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Shipyards
Strike at DSME ends
One of the most debilitating acts of shipyard industrial action has come to an end, with production now back up…
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Containers
HMM orders three feeders at Hyundai Mipo
South Korea’s Hyundai Mipo has received an order from compatriot HMM for three 1,800 teu gearless feeder boxships, with early…
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Regulatory
More than 75% of all tankers, bulkers and containerships not EEXI compliant
With just 163 days to go until the International Maritime Organization’s Energy Efficiency Existing Index (EEXI) comes into play, more…
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Environment
MAN engines can now be retrofitted to become climate-neutral
MAN PrimeServ, MAN Energy Solutions’ after-sales brand, is now offering its customers the opportunity to retrofit older MAN 48/60 marine…
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Containers
Shippers Down Under hit especially hard during container shipping’s great bull-run
Long-term rates are “through the roof” for trades into New Zealand and Australia, with some contracts up over 400% since…
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