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Operations
Change in piracy threats in Indian Ocean prompts re-think of High Risk Area
A continued downward trend in Somali piracy has prompted shipping organisations to reduce the geographic boundaries of the High Risk…
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Ports and Logistics
Ningbo-Zhoushan terminal closed for sixth consecutive day
The Meishan terminal at Ningbo-Zhoushan port remained closed for a sixth straight day on Monday, with ship queues outside the…
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Containers
Philippine authorities suspect collusion among container carriers
Manila is the latest place where carriers are under the spotlight for their pricing ploys. A preliminary investigation by the…
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Ports and Logistics
How the Taliban takeover in landlocked Afghanistan will change shipping patterns
The Taliban takeover of landlocked Afghanistan is expected to change shipping patterns in Central Asia. Afghanistan had previously been working…
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Ports and Logistics
All eyes on Ningbo as global supply chains await news of terminal’s reopening
There is still no indication when operations at a container terminal in the world’s largest port will resume following a…
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Containers
Shippers bamboozled by growing disparity between liner shipping’s five index providers
Shippers frantically trying to book container shipments are faced with yet another hurdle in this most tricky of years for…
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Dry Cargo
BIMCO quashes talk of a supercycle
Analysts at international shipowning organisation BIMCO have attempted to answer the question many in dry bulk have been pondering all…
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Tech
Oldendorff invests in Finnish navigation start-up
German shipping major Oldendorff Carriers has invested and become a minor shareholder of Groke Technologies, a Finnish start-up creating navigation…
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Offshore
More than half of the world’s FPSOs are over 30-years-old
Data released yesterday from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) shows just how ancient the world’s floating production storage and…
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Ports and Logistics
Ships divert from Ningbo with no timeframe given for terminal to reopen
Having learnt lessons from the closure of Yantian Port earlier in the summer, a number of carriers are not hanging…
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Operations
Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia, Venezuela and Latvia reported as hardest countries for crews to secure vaccines
The Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia, Venezuela and Latvia have been identified by top shipmanagers as the areas with the largest challenge…
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Gas
Koreans set about developing a hydrogen FPSO
A South Korean consortium is setting about developing a floating offshore plant using wind power to produce hydrogen. The aim…
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Offshore
Wilhelmsen, NorSea and TechnipFMC invest in deepsea mining company
Wilhelmsen and offshore specialist NorSea have together acquired an 18% stake in Norwegian deepsea mining company Loke Marine Minerals. “As…
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Ports and Logistics
The world’s largest port, Ningbo, starts to turn ships away as a worker tests positive for Covid-19
Operations at a terminal of the world’s largest port were suspended today following a single case of Covid-19 being detected…
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Containers
Washington debates taking action against global carriers
The stage is set in Washington DC for a bitter fight between global carriers and politicians. A bipartisan pair of…
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Regulatory
Less than 25% of bulkers and tankers will attain EEXI compliance
London-headquartered broker Simpson Spence Young (SSY) has crunched the numbers on what the impending new twin legislation of the Energy…
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Gas
MOL looks at shipping ammonia from Australia
Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a joint study…
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Containers
Shanghai launches empty container transport station
Shanghai, the world’s largest boxport, has launched a new empty container transportation centre in a bid to help solve the…
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Environment
IPCC report takes aim at methane creating further alarm for proponents of LNG-fuelled ships
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report yesterday warning that over the next 20 years, global temperatures…
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Containers
ZIM readies AI solutions for its shipping operations
Israeli carrier ZIM is set to deploy greater use of artificial intelligence in its daily operations following a tie-up with…
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