By MarEx 2015-10-09 17:02:35 Malaysia's Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) said it is committed to its Canadian LNG project despite the tumble in oil and gas prices which has hurt the state-owned oil ...
Petronas Restates Commitment to Canadian LNG
Tote Creating Fund for Lost Mariners
By Reuters 2015-10-09 15:48:16 The owners of the cargo ship El Faro that sank after it was trapped in the path of Hurricane Joaquin off the Bahamas last week announced the creation of a family ...
Chinese Protest Deployment of U.S. Warships
By MarEx 2015-10-09 13:52:10 Beijing has warned the U.S. after announcing it would deploy warships in the South China Sea and close to the artificial islands recently built by the Chinese. China and ...
New forwarding giant formed
Danish freight forwarding group DSV plans to push further up into the top league of global cargo agents with the signing of an agreement today to take over US-based logistics group UTi Worldwide. In ...
Hsu Chih-chien exits Courage Marine
Taiwanese shipping veteran Hsu Chih-chien has sold his shares in Singapore-listed Courage Marine, ending his association with the company he founded. Courage Marine, founded in 2001 at the start of ...
Dredging work to commence at Port of Soma
Dredging work is set to kick off at the Port of Soma in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan on 10 October, according to the nation's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism. The ...
Swire expands its Asia Pacific shipping service to Hobart
Swire Shipping today (9 October) announced it would expand its Australian service to Hobart, Tasmania. The new service provides both domestic shipments out of Tasmania to Melbourne, Sydney, and ...
Maersk updates on new Boomerang service
Shipping giant Maersk has made more information available about its new Boomerang service to Australia. The service started as Thailand dealt with a slew of reports showing stubborn weakness in its ...
China’s LPG imports may exceed 8 million tonnes in 2015
As China consumes more LPG to feed its propane dehydrogenation plants, LPG imports could set a new record this year. Grieg Shipbrokers noted that China's average monthly LPG imports have gone up from ...
Port of Gothenburg freezes tariffs for 2016
In a boost to shipping companies and their customers, the largest port in the Nordics has announced that port charges for 2016 will be the same as this year's. The significance of this is borne out by ...