Excessive automation on board merchant ships is endangering safety at sea, Essar Shipping director and CEO Captain Anoop Kumar Sharma warned. "If there is an equipment malfunctioning at sea, nobody is ...
Essar Shipping CEO: Excessive automation compromises safety
First French treatment centre for contaminated sediment
Jan De Nul Group environmental subsidiary Envisan France has inaugurated the Eco-Materials Production Centre in La Seyne-sur-Mer, the first of its kind in the Mediterranean area. The centre is part of ...
Cafiero companies reunite to form Italtugs
Three former Cafiero family companies are to reunite to form a new Italian towage and port services group under the name Italtugs. The new company is to be formed through the merging of the towage and ...
Russia service capacity slashed
Trade sanctions, the weakness of the local currency and oil revenue reductions continue to undermine cargo traffic into Russia, forcing ship and logistics operators to adjust their capacities down, ...
New vessel, new contract for Jan De Nul
Belgian dredging giant Jan De Nul (JDN) today announced Vidar's maiden offshore wind farm project, just 10 days after taking over the jack-up crane vessel. Formally operated by German company ...
Daiichi Chuo denies insolvency talk
Japanese bulker operator Daiichi Chuo told IHS Maritime on 25 September that rumours it will file for receivership are untrue. For the first quarter of its financial year, which began on 1 April, ...
UK P&I issues guidance on west Africa piracy
UK P&I Club has issued practical guidance on ship security to address a movement in pirate activity from east to west Africa. In a statement, UK P&I's head of loss prevention, Stuart ...
STX O&S wins LR1 tankers from Andriaki Shipping
South Korean shipbuilder STX Offshore & Shipbuilding said on 24 September that it has won two 74,000 dwt product tankers from a Greek ship owner. Brokers suggested to IHS Maritime that the ...
CMES signs 20-year deal to ship Vale ore to China
Shanghai-listed China Merchants Energy Shipping (CMES) has signed a long-term chartering contract with Brazilian mining giant Vale to ship about 6 million tonnes of ore per year. The contract will be ...
LNG to be dominant fuel by 2030
LNG will be the dominant fuel powering the global shipping industry by 2030, according to experts speaking at the LNG Bunkering Mediterranean Summit in Barcelona on Thursday. The forecast was based on ...
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