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Baltic index gains as rates firm for all vessels
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Date: Apr 18, 2024
The Baltic Exchange’s main dry bulk sea freight index rose on Wednesday, aided by rising rates ac...
Facilitation Committee tackles digitalization and autonomous shipping
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Date: Apr 17, 2024
IMO’s Facilitation Committee has taken steps to further advance the digitalization of the shippin...
Iran working to safeguard oil exports in region, official says
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Date: Apr 17, 2024
Iran’s Deputy Oil Minister Morteza Shahmirzaei told a conference in Moscow via video link on Tues...
CMA CGM AIR CARGO accelerates its development with the arrival of three B777F and the opening of a transpacific service
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Date: Apr 17, 2024
CMA CGM AIR CARGO will begin operating a transpacific route connecting Asia to North America in sum...
ClassNK grants Innovation Endorsements for Products & Solutions to three solutions developed by iO3
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Date: Apr 17, 2024
ClassNK has granted its Innovation Endorsements for Products & Solutions*1 to an internet payme...
Hapag-Lloyd and Seaspan to retrofit five vessels to methanol propulsion
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Date: Apr 17, 2024
Hapag-Lloyd and Seaspan Corporation enter into a partnership agreement to retrofit and convert five...
Coastal Sustainability Alliance Boosts Development And Adoption Of Maritime Biofuel In Singapore
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Date: Apr 17, 2024
The Coastal Sustainability Alliance (CSA), an industry collaborative effort led by Kuok Maritime Gr...
China’s iron ore imports rise as inventories build: Russel
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Date: Apr 17, 2024
Iron ore has emerged as the surprise in China’s first quarter commodity imports, with arrivals po...
HSFO East-West swap hits five-month high amid supply overhang in Asia, European demand uptick
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Date: Apr 17, 2024
The 380 CST East-West spread — the difference between the 380 CST FOB Singapore HSFO swap and the...
Baltic index hits near 3-week high on firm demand across segments
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Date: Apr 17, 2024
The Baltic Exchange’s main dry bulk sea freight index climbed to its highest level in nearly thre...
Somali pirates free Bangladesh cargo ship after ransom paid
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Date: Apr 16, 2024
Somali pirates released the hijacked ship MV Abdullah on Sunday after its Bangladeshi owners report...
Clean Arctic Alliance Welcomes Denmark’s Banning of Scrubber Wastewater Discharges
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Date: Apr 16, 2024
The Clean Arctic Alliance today welcomed the Danish government’s announcement that it will prohib...
Oldendorff Carriers contracts with Harbor Lab to provide global transparency in port transactions and revolutionise disbursement accounting
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Date: Apr 16, 2024
Harbor Lab, a global leader in maritime technology for centralizing and simplifying port disburseme...
Asia Fuel Oil-VLSFO discount widens, market structure slips to parity
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Date: Apr 16, 2024
The spot discount for very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) widened on Monday, while the market intermo...
Setting Sail To Build In Europe 10,000 Sustainable And Digitalised Vessels By 2035
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Date: Apr 16, 2024
SEA Europe, the association representing the European maritime technology industry, comprising ship...
Smart Shipping Revenues Expected to Exceed $540 million in 2024
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Date: Apr 16, 2024
The Future of Smart Shipping – 2024. The second edition to our highly popular 2020 report offers ...
Shipping industry braces for more disruptions as Iran-Israel conflict to further drive up freight rates, travel times
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Date: Apr 16, 2024
The recent back-and-forth attacks between Iran and Israel has added another ingredient to the alrea...
Iran says MSC Aries vessel seized for ‘violating maritime laws’
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Date: Apr 16, 2024
A Portuguese-flagged cargo ship, the MSC Aries, was seized by Iran on April 13 for ”violating mar...
Escalating Middle East Tensions Trigger Projected Surge in War Risk Premiums and Freight Rates
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Date: Apr 16, 2024
In a significant escalation of tensions in the Middle East, Iran’s capture of the MSC Aries, a co...
Baltic index steady as gains in smaller vessels counter weaker capsize
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Date: Apr 16, 2024
The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodit...
Canadian heavy crude trade to Asia picks up as Trans Mountain Expansion startup nears
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Date: Apr 15, 2024
Spot trade of arbitrage heavy Canadian crude to Asia has picked up pace ahead of the commencement o...
Americas midsize crude tanker intertrade to drive freight as TMX expected online at end-Q2
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Date: Apr 15, 2024
Freight for ships carrying crude in the Americas is expected to remain wrapped up in intertrade dyn...
Asia spot LNG at 3-month peak on steady demand, supply disruption
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Date: Apr 15, 2024
Asian spot liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices edged up this week, reaching the highest levels in th...
Tighter fundamentals and geopolitics are pushing commodities higher
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Date: Apr 15, 2024
Oil market tightens as geopolitical risks grow Oil prices have seen significant strength through...
Flex LNG – Time Charter for Flex Endeavour extended to 2032
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Date: Apr 15, 2024
Flex LNG, Ltd. (“Flex LNG” or the “Company”) (OSE/NYSE: FLNG) is pleased to announce that t...
NYK Set to Achieve World’s First Truck-to-Ship Fuel Ammonia Bunkering NYK, JERA, and Resonac Complete Joint Study to Establish Safe and Secure Ammonia Supply System
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Date: Apr 15, 2024
NYK will supply fuel ammonia at the end of May to an NYK-owned ammonia-fueled tugboat (“A-tug”)...
TT Talk – The supply of clean drinking water to ships’ crews
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Date: Apr 15, 2024
Access to safe and clean drinking water to sustain life is one of the most basic human needs; expos...
International Chamber of Shipping statement on the seizure of containership MSC Aries
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Date: Apr 15, 2024
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) condemns utterly the seizure of the MSC Aries earlier t...
Container ship seized in Strait of Hormuz could threaten Middle East trade lanes
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Date: Apr 15, 2024
The seizure of a container ship by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, Saturday, is ‘extremely concerni...
Russian oil and products trapped on tankers hit by new Iran-related sanctions
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Date: Apr 15, 2024
Russian oil and products have become trapped at sea on four tankers after the United States hit the...
Europe is set to continue to rely on Russian LNG in short term
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Date: Apr 12, 2024
More than two years after Russia launched its invasion on Ukraine, natural gas pipeline imports fro...
US investigators interview ship personnel in Maryland bridge collapse
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Date: Apr 12, 2024
U.S. National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy said at a Senate hearing Wednesday...