Cheap bunker prices are tempting hard-pressed shipowners to send ships “the long way round” and avoid expensive Suez and Panama Canal transit fees. In response, the authorities of both canals are offering
South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Mipo Dockyard (HMD) has won a KRW 110 billion (about $95 million) order to build four 1,800 TEU containerships for Taiwan’s Evergreen Marine Corporation. The vessels, each of
JANUARY 28, 2019 — The CMA CGM Group reports that the first LNG fueled vessel in its fleet was successfully bunkered with LNG January 24 at the Port of Rotterdam. The vessel,
NOVEMBER 13, 2018 — Taipei, Taiwan, headquartered Wan Hai Lines has placed orders for 20 new containerships, split between Japan Marine United Corporation and China’s Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard and China Shipbuilding Trading
JULY 18, 2018 — Marseilles headquartered container shipping giant CMA CGM has contracted France’s BIO-UV Group to supply its Bio-Sea ballast water treatment systems (BWTS) to 17 containerships. The company’s nine 22,000
APRIL 10, 2018 — South Korea’s Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) says that, following announcement of the Korean government’s Five Year Plan for Rebuilding Korean Shipping, it is to order a series of
DECEMBER 7, 2017 — Classification society DNV GL has given LNG containment specialist GTT and its partner TECHNOLOG Services GmbH a General Approval for Ship Application (GASA) statement for the retrofit of
DECEMBER 6, 2017 — Shell Marine has been awarded China Ocean Shipping Group’s largest marine lubricants order of 2017. This order will include the full range of marine lubricants and technical services
NOVEMBER 7, 2017 –CMA CGM, Marseilles, France, marked the opening of the 2017 UN Climate Change Conference (COP 23) by announcing that it will equip its recently ordered next generation of nine 22,000
NOVEMBER 7, 2017 – Marseilles, France, headquartered CGM marked the opening of the 2017 UN Climate Change Conference (COP 23) to announce that it will equip its recently ordered next generation of
