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NYK developing its own digital currency to pay crew

November 20th, 20181 Japan’s Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) will soon introduce its own digital currency to pay its crew, Bloomberg is reporting. The digital currency will be pegged to the US...

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From LevelSeas to today

November 20th, 20180 Constantine Komodromos from VesselBot charts shipping’s digitalisation path from the turn of the century. A few days ago, VesselBot hosted a meeting with the...

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Ultrabulk trials sail technology

November 19th, 20180 Danish owner Ultrabulk is teaming with three British outfits to look at retrofitting a ship with sail technology. British utility Drax, operators of the giant Drax...

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MSC’s CIO makes the case for carrier digital harmonisation

November 16th, 20180 Container shipping is playing catch-up with other industries such as aviation and banking when it comes to having a common set of information technology standards, the...

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World’s largest liners launch new container shipping association

November 15th, 20181 A.P. Moller – Maersk, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, MSC and Ocean Network Express plan to establish a container shipping association, which they say in a release today is to...

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NYK displays its vision of a decarbonised car carrier

November 15th, 20180 Japan’s Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) has unveiled a concept car carrier in its ongoing bid to decarbonise its fleet. The emission-free vessel — dubbed the NYK Super...

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Robot hold cleaner trialled

November 14th, 20180 Danish shipowner Norden is trialling a new belt-driven robot (pictured) which can be operated remotely to go up and down along the sides of the holds while pressure...

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CargoX debuts its blockchain solution for shipping

November 14th, 20180 Tech firm CargoX today launches its much trailed shipping blockchain platform. The system stores documents and data securely encrypted on a public globally accessible...

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Regulation call for maritime digital solutions

November 14th, 20182 As the digital transformation in the maritime industry accelerates, there has been a groundswell of calls to set up relevant standards for maritime digital solutions,...

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V.Group claims it is transforming the crewing industry with its digitial investments

November 14th, 20180 London-based V.Group, a major marine support services provider, claims it is leading the transformation of the seafaring industry with its crew management digitalisation...

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China Navigation moves towards low carbon ships

November 13th, 20180 China Navigation has signed a memorandum of understanding with Fiji’s University of the South Pacific (USP) to conduct feasibility studies for a new generation of...

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Scrutinising the entire ecosystem central for full vessel optimisation

November 13th, 20180 Kim Skaarup, the CEO of e-procurement platform ShipServ, writes exclusively for Splash today. The proposal for an experience building phase (EBP) put forward by a...

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Rio Tinto and Cargill behind landmark blockchain iron ore shipment

November 9th, 20180 BNP Paribas and HSBC Singapore have successfully completed Singapore’s first fully digitised end-to-end letter of credit transaction between two different companies...

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Something has to change in shipping’s platform quest

November 9th, 20181 Stefan Kukman, founder and CEO of CargoX, looks at the past, present and future of maritime’s efforts to conduct business online. The shipping industry has a thing...

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As cranes continue to tumble, ports are urged to install laser sensor technology

November 8th, 20181 With quay cranes tumbling around the world in recent months insurer TT Club has urged port operators to install laser sensor technology to avoid costly...

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Cosco engineers blockchain coup to rival Maersk’s TradeLens

November 7th, 20180 Cosco has engineered a massive blockchain coup, sideswiping rival Maersk in the process. Yesterday in China many of the world’s top carriers and port operators...

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Fugro to develop autonomous survey vessels

November 7th, 20180 Dutch offshore services firm Fugro has signed a development agreement with autonomous vessel technology specialist L3 ASV to jointly create...

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Concord Maritime tanker pool up and running with Atlas and Emarat vessels
Tanker commercial management firm Concord Maritime, launched in April by Ben Ognibene, has revealed... Dec 14th, 2018 inTankers
Green propulsion likened to a gold rush
The pursuit of cleaner propulsion solutions has created “a sort of gold rush atmosphere” among... Dec 14th, 2018 inTech
Chinese port sets out to overhaul Singapore’s bunkering dominance in the low sulphur era
Zhoushan in the east of China has set out to overhaul Singapore as the world’s top bunkering hub... Dec 14th, 2018 inBunkering
Intertanko: Sulphur cap will take two years to bed in
Paolo d’Amico, head of d’Amico Società di Navigazione group, has added a couple more titles to... Dec 13th, 2018 inMaritime CEO
China, the sulphur cap and the valemax playbook
This week China outlined its own sulphur cap plans which are set to kick in earlier than the global... Dec 13th, 2018 inGreater China

Russian shipping firm faces bankruptcy over alleged dealings with North Korea

Green propulsion likened to a gold rush

Ulrich Müller resigns from Belships

Laurin returns with new role in Gothenburg

Concord Maritime tanker pool up and running with Atlas and Emarat vessels

Blackstone, KKR and Macquarie reportedly interested in taking over OOCL’s Long Beach facility

Maersk Broker buys into NAODAN Chartering

Petrobras to cut more than 50 jobs from Houston office

ADES secures seven-year jackup extension in Saudi Arabia

Adnoc loads LPG and propylene onto the same vessel in landmark shipment

Abu Dhabi’s Goldilocks buys into Gulf Navigation

Swissco offloading 25 vessels to Allianz Middle East

Russian shipping firm faces bankruptcy over alleged dealings with North Korea

Crane occupied in DSME strike

FSL plans vessels sales to fund newbuild product tanker pair

NYK fixes long-term LNG contracts with Diamond Gas International

Chinese port sets out to overhaul Singapore’s bunkering dominance in the low sulphur era

China, the sulphur cap and the valemax playbook

Anglo-Eastern fires captain found to be three times over the drinking limit

Noble adopts Bermuda plan to square off its restructuring process

Wilhelmsen harks back to the days of the Vikings in next chapter of its digital odyssey