Inland Dredging awarded $24 million USACE contract Dyersburg, Tenn.,headquartered Inland Dredging Co. LLC, has been awarded a $24,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract for rental of 24-inch cutterhead pipeline for dredging navigation projects in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. Bids were solicited via
ABS updates offshore wind turbine guidances Classification society ABS has released updated guides covering both floating and bottom-founded offshore wind turbines.They incorporate lessons learned from projects in Europe and North America and include the latest developments in International
Hill Dickinson names new Head of Marine and Trade Tony Goldsmith has been appointed as Head of Marine and Trade at Liverpool, U.K., headquartered international law firm Hill Dickinson. He will succeed the firm's current Head of Marine, David Wareing, who
TIMCO Industries introduces Temperature Entry Access System With maritime companies looking to include temperature scanning among the access protocols for vessels, shipyards and other facilities, New Albany, Ind., based TIMCO Industries has introduced a new Temperature Entry Access System
Sea Machines partners with Maine Maritime and MARAD on autonomous vessel training Students at Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, Me., are to get hands-on education about autonomous marine systems. Boston-based Sea Machines Robotics has partnered with the academy and the U.S. Maritime Administration's Maritime Environmental
VIDEO: Carnival Fantasy beached at Turkish scrapping yard Postings on social media yesterday showed Carnival Fantasy being beached at a Turkish scrapping yard - a sad ending for a ship that had in many ways been an icon of the
Contango trades shield oil majors from epic losses The oil price contango - when the future price is higher than the spot price - allowed oil majors to...
Seafarers close to breaking point, warns shipmanager With 300,000 crew still stranded at sea amid tightening crew change policies, the risk is rising that they will refuse...
Navios Acquisition takes on container assets as tanker profits boom The Navios Group tanker owner acquired seven feeder containerships, as well as receiving $8.9m in cash, following the liquidation of...
New Hill Dickinson Singapore office head to drive future growth Despite the severe disruption to the markets created by the pandemic, Singapore remains one of the world's most vibrant maritime...
Co-operation helps keep US ports on track But co-operation extends far beyond the coronavirus, as employers and labour have settled into a six-year agreement signed in 2018, which sets port...
Performance reaps benefit of tanker switch The company, formerly known as Diana Containerships, now owns four aframax tankers with only one remaining panamax container vessel
D'Amico chief eyes deleveraging company Depending on market conditions going forward, it may look to exercise purchase options on previous leaseback deals, chief executive says
Keppel O&M's pandemic disruption drags on parent Two foreign worker dormitories managed by the yard group's affiliate, Keppel Housing, have been earmarked as isolation areas because of...
Port of Venice says first-half volumes down 12% 'Like all Italian and world ports, the lagoon ports have been affected by the negative effects produced by the pandemic...
Talk of a containers crisis is off the mark If container lines can hold their nerve, the next six months should remain profitable, even with a weak peak season
Is dry bulk over the worst? The dry bulk fleet is expected to expand this year, while demand is likely to fall, leading to a toxic...
Global economy faces further harm from a second wave Current economic developments will have a major impact on seaborne trade, with volumes in 2020 forecast to fall by 3%...
Pacific Basin looks to upgrade to larger handysizes The company says it will resume its acquisitions of secondhand vessels, which had been put on hold in the first...
Lim family members step aside at Xihe Group Hin Leong founder OK Lim and his children, Evan Lim and Lim Huey Ching, have resigned from directorships in Xihe...
More action needed to prevent container losses Stowage plans, lashing arrangements and verification of the gross mass of containers compliance remain areas of concern
Zhuhai bids $270m for rival Chinese port The majority shareholders of Xinhua have already entered an irrevocable undertaking agreement with Zhuhai
Daily Briefing Free to read: Grimaldi says state aid for shipping risks distorting market | Dry bulker crew members test positive for...
Hong Kong crew change suspension dismays unions The unions said they expected the government to improve the current policy and advocate the appropriate crew change in Hong...
Australia bans Chinese dry bulker over underpaid crew Disembarked Burmese crew are now said to be stranded in Brisbane due to the lack of flights to Myanmar, with...
Maersk Pool linked to Xihe tankers deal Lenders are seen as likely to welcome the appointment of 'independent' technical and commercial managers for the 37 tankers
South Korea sees more coronavirus cases from Russian crew South Korea has been conducting onboard quarantine checks of Russian ships arriving in Busan ports since late June
Volume surges strain capacity at Amazon, put one-day shipping on back burner Amazon cautions that the company is running out of fulfillment and delivery capacity.
JAXPORT expands funding for harbor deepening Jacksonville, Florida, port this week also welcomed the largest LNG-powered ro-ro vessel on its maiden voyage to the United States.
DHL injects $1.6M into new Indianapolis life sciences facility DHL located a new life sciences warehouse in Indianapolis because the city has many pharmaceutical companies in the area.
UPS pilots seek option to refuse Hong Kong missions UPS pilots are seeking protections from aggressive health safety measures in Hong Kong but aren't going as far as their counterparts at FedEx.
Singapore marine fuel 0.5%S timespread, cash differentials at 5-month highs as cargo inflow falls Singapore Marine Fuel 0.5%S timespreads and cash differentials hit five-month highs July 29 amid widespread expectations the inflow of Western arbitrage cargoes into Asia will fall in August.
South Korea's Hyundai Oilbank imports rare August LSFO cargo as South Korean refiners maintain lower LSFO production South Korean refiner Hyundai Oilbank, which reduced low sulfur fuel oil production in late Q2 amid weaker margins, is importing a cargo of IMO-compliant fuel in early August, according to a company source.
LSSR relies on bunker demand: sources Low sulfur straight run has become increasingly reliant on demand from the bunker pool in the last couple of months, as weakness in refining margins have made the product unattractive as a feedstock for light products blending, sources said.
UK's oil demand recovery moves into slow lane after June surge Road fuel sales in the UK edged up to 84% of pre-lockdown levels last week, according to official figures, in a marked slowdown from the rebound in June when oil demand rose by more than a fifth on easing travel restrictions in Europe's second-biggest economy.
Finland's Gasum performs Germany's first truck-to-ship LNG bunker operation Finland's Gasum has completed the first truck-to-ship LNG bunker operation in Germany, it said July 29.
OIL FUTURES: Prices dip as demand outlooks dim ahead of OPEC+ production surge Oil prices settled lower July 30 as weak US economic data put demand recovery outlooks in doubt amid rising global supply forecasts.
Magellan projects relatively flat refined products demand through end of 2020 Magellan Midstream Partners said July 30 it expects refined products demand to remain relatively flat through the rest of the year, with only a small uptick seen in gasoline.
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