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Containers
Silk Alliance created to develop green corridors across intra-Asia container trades
The intra-Asia trades, container shipping’s pipelines, are set to get the green corridor treatment.Lloyd’s Register Maritime Decarbonisation Hub announced today…
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Europe
Posidonia goes green
The 2022 edition of Posidonia, due to get underway early next month, will be Greece’s first ever sustainable event, as…
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Containers
Containership orderbook equivalent to the extent fleets of Cosco, Hapag-Lloyd and Evergreen
More statistics relating to today’s record containership orderbook are pouring in. According to Alphaliner, there are now just under 900…
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Dry Cargo
World leaders discuss deploying naval coalition to the Black Sea to help ship Ukrainian grain
World leaders are discussing sending warships to the Black Sea to ship Ukrainian grain overseas, a move previously dismissed by…
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Tankers
Clean tanker earnings leap
After more than doubling since the start of the year, the Baltic Exchange Clean Tanker Index has climbed to its…
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Operations
Taiwan fights to avoid looming crewing shortage
Facing a looming crew shortage, Taiwan’s shipping companies have joined forces with government to kickstart a renewed local recruitment and…
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Operations
All Aboard Alliance launches in Zurich
Yesterday in Zurich industry leaders from across the global maritime value chain came together to launch the All Aboard Alliance,…
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Ports and Logistics
New Zealand pumps millions of dollars to develop coastal shipping network
The New Zealand government’s decision this week to pump NZ$30m ($19.4m) into a coastal shipping initiative has been hailed by…
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Ports and Logistics
Middle East container ports are the most efficient in the world
Ports in the Middle East took four of the top five spots in the second edition of the global Container…
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Gas
Crowley opens LNG terminal in Puerto Rico
US shipping conglomerate Crowley has inaugurated an LNG loading terminal in Peñuelas in the south of Puerto Rico. The facility…
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Splash Extra
What’s Fredriksen’s play with Euronav?
The only time I have plucked up the courage to go and talk to John Fredriksen was at a Posidonia…
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Greater China
Marintec China shifts dates again
Covid has laid waste to event organiser plans in China once again. The 21st edition of Marintec China will now…
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Shipyards
German shipbuilders warn of risks of being too reliant on China
The German Shipbuilding and Ocean Industries Association (VSM) has issued a very strongly worded release, demanding Berlin and other European…
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Ports and Logistics
UK Chamber of Shipping urges greater shore power across British ports
The UK Chamber of Shipping has urged the British government to catch up with shore power for ports and ships,…
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Middle East
Milaha CEO quits
Qatar Navigation Company (Milaha) has announced the resignation of the company’s president and CEO, Abdulrahman Essa Al-Mannai, in order to…
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Operations
Bulk carrier master faces life imprisonment in Australia after big cocaine bust
The Australian Federal Police has charged the 51-year-old master of a bulk carrier for his alleged role in the plot…
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Environment
Trafigura debuts commodity supply chain emissions calculation platform
Commodity trading giant Trafigura has teamed up Denver-headquartered Palantir Technologies to bring to market a platform for carbon emissions calculation,…
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Ports and Logistics
Abu Dhabi to develop pulp terminal
Abu Dhabi terminal operator AD Ports Group has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Germany’s Alexander Global Logistics to develop…
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Containers
MSC’s historic S&P splurge nears 200th ship
In August 2020 Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) embarked on an epic fleet build-up plan that is expected to result this…
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Containers
Liner shipping’s ‘mind-bending’ profits flow in
By the end of 2022, the container shipping industry will have earned an unprecedented half a trillion dollars of operating…
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