NOVEMBER 7, 2016 —Containership demolition is at an all time high —creating what BIMCO calls “a positive surprise for the struggling container shipping industry. “ “The demolition activity in the last three
NOVEMBER 7, 2016 —Containership demolition is at an all time high —creating what BIMCO calls “a positive surprise for the struggling container shipping industry. “ “The demolition activity in the last three
OCTOBER 19, 2016 — Container shipping giant CMA CGM and energy company ENGIE (the former GDF Suez) have signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to promote LNG as the marine fuel for
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 — The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) yesterday described the refusal of shore leave to seafarers on board Hanjin ships in the U.S. as a denial of human rights.
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016 — A South Korean judge today ordered all Hanjin Shipping chartered vessels that have completed unloading their cargo to cancel their charter agreements and return to their owners. Sixty
SEPTEMBER 10, 2016—At SMM 2016 this past week in Hamburg, Germany, Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) announced it received the second approval in principle (AIP) from DNV GL for SkyBench, an
SEPTEMBER 9, 2016 — SkyBench, an innovative design for maximizing cargo loading capacity of large containerships developed by shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) received a second approval in principle (AIP) from DNV
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016 — Classification society Bureau Veritas is to class the first-of-its kind conversion of Haren/Ems, Germany, based Wessels Reederei’s 1,036 TEU containership Wes Amelie to LNG as fuel (see earlier
JULY 25, 2016 — A Cosco neopanamax containership last month became the first ship to make a commercial transit of the expanded Panama Canal. Now another Cosco neopanamax, the 8,500 TEU Xin
JULY 5, 2016 — Wärtsilä is to supply a total of twenty-four 9-cylinder Wärtsilä 32 Auxpac generating sets for six 21,000 TEU containerships being built at the Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipyard (SWS) for