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Tech
Weekly report details growing number of shipping companies targeted by malware attacks
Cyber consultants Red Sky Alliance with maritime security specialists Dryad Global have started publishing a weekly list of names of…
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Europe
Film highlights plight of seafarers hit by corruption at ports around the world
A new film from the Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC) shows the plight crews face around the world thanks to…
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Greater China
Coronavirus wipes away 1.7m teu of liner business
The coronavirus is set to wipe a “chilling” 1.7m teu of container business, according to new research from Copenhagen-based Sea-Intelligence.…
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Europe
Wilhelm Wilhelmsen dies at the age of 82
Wilhelm Wilhelmsen, the fourth generation owner of the Norwegian maritime group Wilhelmsen, died on Saturday at the age of 82.…
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Contributions
How shipping should develop a purpose-driven decarbonisation R&D centre
Harry Sangree, the founder of SeaFreight Labs, commends readers to pick up a copy of Jon Gertner’s book on Bell…
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Europe
Maersk makes late scrubber run, set to increase HFO use by 150%
Maersk, the world’s largest containerline, is set to more than double the amount of heavy fuel oil (HFO) its fleet…
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Europe
‘You cannot create an environmental paradise on an economic graveyard’: Ioanna Procopiou
Once again regulators were on the receiving end of an earful at a shipping conference yesterday with shipowners increasingly irate…
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Asia
Japan’s engine power limitation plans gain widespread support ahead of MEPC
A host of shipping’s most powerful states and associations have come round to support Japan’s controversial ship power limiting proposals…
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Contributions
The asset light shipping company of Airdrie
Mr Prospector bumps into an old mate at the bus stop. “There’s probably a reader out there somewhere,” I tell…
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Greater China
Coronavirus supply chain headaches spread as more than one in two Asia – North Europe sailings are cancelled
More than one in two carrier departures from Asia to North Europe are being cancelled in the wake of the…
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Contributions
Shipping should shrug off coronavirus but escalation risks supply chain contagion
In the first of a two-part analysis on the impact of the coronavirus, Dr Adam Kent, managing director, MSI looks…
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Environment
Report warns scrubber discharges may creep into food chain
Scrubbers and their questionable discharge are back in the news today with the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) and its…
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Contributions
Are net zero claims killing corporate credibility?
Gavin Lipsith, head of content at Wake Media, on swapping ethics for accounting. “Net zero is not zero. If I…
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Asia
SM Line signs with MSC and Maersk on the transpacific
As MSC and Maersk prepare to bid farewell to partner HMM, they’ve found a new Korean liner to help out…
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Maritime CEO
Euronav: ‘When the cycle is down we can be opportunistic’
Arguably no sector in shipping is more constantly on a knife edge than the VLCC sector, a segment prone to…
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Greater China
Chinese yards admit huge slice of global orderbook will suffer coronavirus delays
The orderbook for world shipping will likely be shunted backwards in the wake of the coronavirus while more than 200…
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Greater China
Crew movement caught up in coronavirus
One of the less reported side effects hitting global supply chains in the wake of the coronavirus emanating from China…
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Environment
IMO urged to toughen up 2030 GHG goals
The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) has had a busy start to the year trying to shape the future…
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Asia
HMM poised to take delivery of record-breaking 23,964 teu boxship
South Korean flagship HMM has revealed the actual capacity of its mega boxship series set to start trading from early…
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Tankers
Coronavirus crude contango sees floating storage stage a comeback
Oil demand destruction from the coronavirus outbreak has sent prompt crude prices lower and flipped the crude market into contango,…
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