By Kathryn Stone 2015-04-30 14:23:17 Legislatures and experts alike have been quick to criticize Canada’s ability to respond to oil spills following an April 8, bunker fuel spill in Vancouver’s ...
Is Canada Ready for an Oil Spill?
Shell Prepares Armada to Begin Arctic Exploration
By Reuters 2015-04-30 12:02:03 Royal Dutch Shell is pushing ahead with plans to explore for oil in the Arctic Ocean near Alaska this summer despite opposition from environmental groups. The ...
Carbon monoxide poisoning suspected in accident
Carbon monoxide poisoning is thought to have been the cause of the death of a seafarer and the loss of consciousness of three other people while they were in the hold of a vessel transporting wood ...
Scorpio Tankers raises growth funds
NYSE-listed Scorpio Tankers is selling equity to purchase even more vessels on top of its already prodigious expansion programme. The Emanuele Lauro-led product tanker specialist is selling 15 million ...
Euronav celebrates best quarter since 2008
Antwerp-based tanker operator Euronav has posted its best quarterly results since Q3 2008 with first quarter profits up from USD1.37 million last year to USD80.85 million this year. Chief executive ...
BP Shipping Turns 100
By MarEx 2015-04-30 09:59:59 BP Shipping today celebrates its 100-year anniversary, making it the longest continually operating company in the BP group. Formed on April 30, 1915 as the British ...
Second cyclone to cross Pilbarra
Tropical cyclone Quang is forecast to hit Exmouth and the port of Ashburton Saturday morning, according to warnings from the Australian Bureau of Meterology, but bypass the Pilbarra's main iron ore ...
Update: Maersk accuses Iran of illegally intercepting ship
Maersk has said it believes the actions of Iran in arresting the container ship Maersk Tigris in the Strait of Hormuz on 28 April is "illegal" . Speaking to IHS Maritime today, Maersk representative ...
Coroner suspects sharks killed seafarer
A Chinese national who disappeared from a Hong Kong-registered bulker last year was probably eaten by sharks, an Australian coroner's report has concluded. Sun Peng, 30, disappeared from vessel Great ...
Maersk Insists on Release of Seized Vessel
By Reuters 2015-04-30 09:06:02 Denmark's Maersk shipping said on Thursday it insisted on the release of a vessel and crew seized by Iran, adding it assumed the incident was related to a 2005 court ...
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