Construction work for an offshore wind power industrial park started at Guangli Harbor Area of Bohai Bay Port Group on April 16, with a number of government officials and enterprise representatives attending the commencement ceremony. The o

China remained the worlds leading shipbuilder in the first quarter of the year, taking up nearly half of the international market share in terms of output and new and holding orders, data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Techno

The average daily throughput of containers at the Shanghai port has been over 100,000 TUEs (twenty-foot equivalent units) since the beginning of April, a sign that the citys function as an international shipping center has been steady even

The Baltic Exchanges dry bulk sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships ferrying dry bulk commodities, rose to a more than two-week high on Thursday, driven by gains in the capesize segment. * The overall index, which factors in rates

Where Barrels Go It has been almost two months since Russia invaded Ukraine. Over this period, we have seen several rounds of sanctions being placed by Western governments. Most notably for our sector, Russian crude/oil products trade into

A screen capture of SeaTrust-Frame 3D in action Korean Register (KR) has launched SeaTrust-Frame3D, a grillage structure evaluation software for ships. SeaTrust-Frame3D enables a complicated ship structure to be simply modelled by represent

Heres a wild fact Id never heard: Biofouling on ship hulls increases fuel consumption around 15% on average. The term specifically refers to a build-up of microorganisms and other life. That includes a wide range of different creatures, lik

On April 19, the first 13,000-dwt LNG dual-fuel chemical tanker BIT WAVE built by Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Group for Swedish shipowner TARBIT successfully delivered. The ship is also the first LNG dual-fuel chemical tanker built by Yangziji

Shell Marine announced that it has received a full No Objection Letter (NOL) from MAN Energy Solutions (MAN ES) for Shell Alexia 40 XC, its Category II (CAT II) 40BN cylinder oil, confirming the successful completion of the full approval pr

As the climate emergency impacts every corner of the world, the basic human necessity of access to fresh water is one of the most urgent challenges facing the planet. While land-based desalination plants have been built all over the world i

World-leading coatings company, Hempel A/S, has successfully amended the companys credit facilities, linking borrowing costs to four sustainability targets. This Earth Day, Hempel is Investing in our planet and announces amendments of its E

New LiveFleet tool offers greater transparency of ship s performance and generates cost savings Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM) makes further progress in the digitalisation of its fleet management. Building on the success of its exist

Updates to detection levels and effects on machinery encountered Since the last alert ( BF202203-02 ) dated 15-March-2022 on High Sulphur Bunker fuels contaminated with chlorinated organic compounds, CTI-Maritec has kept a close watch on th

GTT announces that it has received, in March 2022, orders fromthe Chinese shipyard Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co. Ltd. for the tank design of four new LNGCs on behalf of 2 ship owners. GTT will design the tanks of these four vesse

The Delphi Economic Forum VII was held in Greece local time from April 6 to 9. With the theme of New Realities, the forum conducted extensive discussions on the economy, politics, international relations, education and other topics. Chinese