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Marine battery maker AYK Energy strikes biggest ever retrofit deal with Finnish ship owner Wasaline
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Date: May 01, 2025
Marine battery maker AYK Energy is gearing up production after striking a deal to undertake the bigg...
ClassNK releases ‘Prime Shipmanagement Guidelines’ for leveraging successful case studies to enable flexible responses to various situations
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Date: May 01, 2025
ClassNK has released ‘Prime Shipmanagement Guidelines’ which aim to achieve sustainable ship man...
Bureau Veritas Joins NavHyS Project to Advance Liquid Hydrogen Innovation in Shipping
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Date: May 01, 2025
Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore (BV) is pleased to announce its participation in NavHyS, a new ...
China’s reliance on soybean imports continues despite cutback plans
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Date: May 01, 2025
China wants to reduce reliance on foreign soybeans, but importers apparently didn’t get the memo. ...
The U.S. Shipbuilding Industry vs. China Implications for the Tanker Segment Amid New USTR Rules
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Date: May 01, 2025
As of mid-April 2025, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has finalized and refined its Section 301...
U.S. imports of major transportation fuels decreased in 2024
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Date: Apr 30, 2025
U.S. imports of petroleum products decreased by 210,000 barrels per day (b/d) in 2024 to average 1.8...
Export employment to dive if trade war persists -US business group
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Date: Apr 30, 2025
All American exports to China worth $140.7 billion last year now face a retaliatory Chinese tariff o...
Dalian iron ore nudges higher on resilient China demand
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Date: Apr 30, 2025
Dalian iron ore futures edged higher on Tuesday, supported by near-term demand in top consumer China...
China’s Guangzhou port starts shipping route to Peru
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Date: Apr 30, 2025
China’s Guangzhou Port, the largest shipping hub in the country’s south, opened a direct route t...
Fugro to adopt NAPA Logbook fleet-wide following trial
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Date: Apr 30, 2025
Fugro, the world’s leading geo-data specialist and international operator of specialized vessels, ...
Strong Technological Co-Operation Offers Shipping Companies Economic And Climate Benefits
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Date: Apr 30, 2025
A number of players in the shipping industry are collaborating on a completely new way of collecting...
China-U.S. Container Volume Drops 45% Amid Tariff Tensions
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Date: Apr 30, 2025
The U.S.-China trade war is inflicting severe damage on the real economy. The volume of China-origin...
Post USTR Policy: The Newbuilding Ordering Enigma
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Date: Apr 30, 2025
Newbuilding activity is expected to face a period of transition following the USTR policy decision. ...
Capital Group Invests in KONGSBERG’s K-Sim Engine and -Cargo Simulators for New Training Center in Chios, Greece
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Date: Apr 30, 2025
Kongsberg Maritime has secured a contract with Capital Group, Greece, to deliver advanced K-Sim Engi...
Modernizing Mooring: A leap of faith or a strategic advantage?
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Date: Apr 30, 2025
As ports contend with rising trade volumes, stricter environmental regulations, and increasing expec...
Artificial Intelligence Not Intelligent Enough To Diagnose Engine Problems – Yet!
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Date: Apr 29, 2025
Condition Monitoring Technologies (CMT) has cautioned against placing sole reliance on artificial in...
Commercial Impracticability and Frustration of Shipping Agreements in Uncertain Times
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Date: Apr 29, 2025
Highlights Long-term and short-term vessel agreements and contracts alike are sometimes impacte...
India boosts buying of Russia’s ESPO oil in April as Chinese demand eases
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Date: Apr 29, 2025
India increased purchases of ESPO Blend oil from Russia in April to the highest level since August 2...
Prospect of Binding Global Rules on Biofouling Management
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Date: Apr 29, 2025
IMO approves new recommendations for underwater management of biofouling on ship hulls and tak...
Vitol launches new FuelEU compliant co-processed VLSFO offering for marine customers
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Date: Apr 29, 2025
Vitol Bunkers is to offer customers FuelEU compliant co-processed bunkering fuel. The fuel is being ...
Asia Fuel Oil Markets stable in thin trading momentum
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Date: Apr 29, 2025
Fuel oil markets were largely stable in Asia on Monday against a backdrop of thin trading momentum, ...
New S&P Global Report: Liner Shipping Supports $1.1 Trillion in U.S. GDP and 6.4 Million American Jobs
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Date: Apr 29, 2025
New analysis from S&P Global, released Monday by the World Shipping Council, highlights the crit...
Greek shippers return to Russian oil market as prices slip below G7 cap, sources say
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Date: Apr 29, 2025
Greek shipowners are returning to Russia’s Urals oil market as the price slides below the Western ...
New bunker regulations in the Mediterranean Sea disrupt traditional VLSFO usage
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Date: Apr 29, 2025
From May, the Mediterranean Sea is becoming the fifth Emission Control Area (ECA) globally, followin...
Baltic index rises to three-week high as larger vessel rates firm
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Date: Apr 29, 2025
The Baltic Exchange’s dry bulk sea freight index rose to scale an over-three-week high on Monday d...
India’s Prime Minister calls on steel industry to seek alternatives to imported coking coal
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Date: Apr 28, 2025
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the domestic steel industry to find alternatives for the k...
Asian spot LNG prices hold at 1-year low as demand remains tepid
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Date: Apr 28, 2025
Prices of Asian spot liquefied natural gas (LNG) inched up this week amid production outages in Asia...
Black Sea may hold back world wheat supplies into 2026
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Date: Apr 28, 2025
The global wheat market narrative has recently shifted, though it’s easy to have missed it. Exp...
Kpler completes acquisition of Spire Maritime, strengthening maritime intelligence capabilities
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Date: Apr 28, 2025
Kpler, a provider of intelligence tools for trade, is pleased to announce the successful closing of ...
EU to present roadmap in May to phase out all imports of Russian fossil fuels
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Date: Apr 28, 2025
The European Commission will in the next two weeks present a roadmap on how it intends to phase out ...
Xeneta Weekly Ocean Container Shipping Market: Global Trade Patterns Changes Are Impacting Ocean Freight Rates
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Date: Apr 28, 2025
Data highlight 1: China and Vietnam comparison Average spot rates into US West Coast on 16 March ...
Trump says US ships should be allowed to travel through the Panama and Suez canals for free
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Date: Apr 28, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that American military and commercial ships should be a...