World’s largest ice-rated multi-fuel ConRo delivered

Chinese shipyard CIMC Raffles today delivered Botnia Enabler, the first of two multi-fuel Knud E. Hansen designed ConRo ships, to Gothenburg, Sweden, based Wallenius SOL. “We’re incredibly pleased and proud to welcome

Pacific Basin Ship

Pacific Basin in three-way zero-emission vessel initiative

One of the world’s largest bulker operators, Hong Kong headquartered Pacific Basin Shipping Limited, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan’s Nihon Shipyard Co., Ltd and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. It

Sara Brady

Promotion in Dan-Bunkering’s Stamford office

Sara Brady has been promoted to team leader, senior bunker broker & trader at Dan-Bunkering (Connecticut) LLC Brady began her career in the bunker industry in 2004 when joining LQM Petroleum Services

Poison pill

Seaways adopts a poison pill defense

As the Saverys family continues to contest a merger of Euronav into Frontline, billionaire shipping investor John Fredriksen has taken a significant stake in another tanker giant, New York City headquartered International

Maersk to pay $1.9M in FMC civil penalties

FMC requires more info from box ship alliances

The Federal Maritime Commission is upping its scrutiny of the three alliances that dominate global container shipping The alliances (2M, OCEAN, and THE) and each of their member companies will now be

Maersk CEO Søren Skou

Maersk reports “best earnings quarter ever”

A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk)may no longer be quite the world’s largest operator of containerships, but it continues to be a money machine, reporting record results for first quarter 2022 across all

New Odfjell CEO

Odfjell names new CEO

Norwegian chemical tanker operator Odfjell SE has appointed Harald Fotland as its new CEO. Fotland, who is currently Odfjell’s COO, will assume his new role on May 6, 2022. He succeeds Kristian

Biden bans Russian ships

Russian ships banned from U.S. ports

President Joe Biden today issued a proclamation prohibiting the entry of Russian-affiliated ships into U.S. ports. The proclamation defines “Russian-affiliated ships” as: vessels of Russian registry (i.e., the vessel is Russian flagged);

Mark O'Neil is moving to help traumatized seafarers

Ukraine crisis: Columbia acts to help traumatized seafarers and families

Columbia Shipmanagement (CSM), together with its owning company and its clients, have raised over $1.5 million and assembled a team of 320 psychologists, mostly from Ukraine, to aid traumatized families of seafarers

Shipping decarbonization

Op-Ed: Markets will reward decarbonization first movers … time for legislators to do the same

By Stéphanie Lesage, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Airseas There is a growing consensus that immediate action is needed to decarbonize shipping, but much of the debate remains focused on alternative fuels

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