December 11th, 20180NYK has signed long-term contracts with Diamond Gas International (DGI), a wholly owned Singapore subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation, for DGI to charter from NYK three newly built liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers.
Previously, NYK concluded long-term time-charter contracts for three new LNG vessels for Mitsubishi’s Cameron...
December 10th, 20183Japan’s NYK has ordered a pair of 174,000 cu m LNG carriers from Samsung Heavy Industries as part of a long-term contract signed with Total Gas & Power Chartering.
The membrane-type LNG carriers are scheduled for delivery in 2021, and will be operated by Gazocean, a joint venture between NYK and Total.
In October NYK ordered...
December 7th, 20180A Japanese consortium including shipping major Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) will build and operate an FSRU to be deployed in Indonesia. The Jawa 1 project features Indonesia’s energy giant Pertamina, trading houses Marubeni and Sojitz as well as MOL.
The FSRU will operate in West Java once it has been built and it will send gas to a local...
December 6th, 20180Ocean Network Express (ONE), the new Japanese liner, has revealed how it intends to get clients to pay for its compliance to the 2020 global sulphur cap. In a release yesterday, ONE said that the majority of its fleet would sail with 0.5% sulphur fuel when the cap kicks in in 13 months’ time, rather than using scrubbers or LNG. The ONE...
December 4th, 20180Japanese shipping major Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) yesterday unveiled a new digital platform to take its shipmanagement operations forward.
Called NiBiKi, the platform will take data to shared with five affiliated shipmanagement companies overseeing about 260 NYK vessels.
NiBiKi is a platform that digitalises applications, approval,...
November 27th, 20180Japan Drilling Co. (JDC) subsidiary P.T. Japan Drilling Indonesia has entered into a drilling contract with Premier Oil Natuna Sea for 2013-built jackup rig .
The contract is for four firm wells and will commence in either March or April 2019. The rig will be operating off Natuna, Indonesia for around 173 days.
Founded in 1968, JDC...
November 20th, 20181Japan’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 dollar. Details of the new payment project such as whether it will use blockchain or be a cryptocurrency variant remain unknown at this stage.
NYK will debut the new...
November 20th, 20180Norwegian company Kristian Gerhard Jebsen has placed an order at Japan Marine United for the construction of two 82,000 dwt kamsarmax bulk carriers.
According to shipbroking sources, the price for each vessel is $33m and delivery is scheduled in 2020.
The vessels will not be equipped with scrubbers.
Kristian Gerhard Jebsen...
November 19th, 20180Idan Ofer’s Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping has snapped up 2008-built 6,661 teu boxship from Japan’s NYK Line.
Eastern Pacific revealed the acquisition on social media channels, having just taken delivery of the 80,226 dwt vessel in Singapore with CEO Cyril Ducau in attendance. The value of the transaction was not...
November 15th, 20180Norwegian offshore seismic service provider PGS has offered to sell its 2009-built survey vessel to the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC) as part of a tender process.
PGS has now been informed that the company is the preferred tenderer, and negotiations will be initiated with the aim of concluding necessary...
