The coming of a new year often holds promise for the future. With the coronavirus pandemic dominating center-stage last year, many have their eyes keenly…
Life itself arose from the oceans. The ocean is vast and covers 140 million square miles, some 72 per cent of the Earth's surface. The…
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In 2016, the IMO set out new mandatory requirements on electronic data interchange, stating that national authorities have until April 2021 to establish systems for…
Key to the balance of plant equipment in the engineroom, pumps are enablers of broad technological trends in shipping. Recent pump technology and application has…
Some 400,000 seafarers from across the globe are now stranded on ships, continuing to work but unable to be relieved, in a deepening crew change…
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), which represents the world’s national shipowners’ associations and more than 80% of the world merchant fleet, has published its…
SINGAPORE: China's exports of clean marine fuel in August hit a high for the year, customs data showed on Friday, along with total exports of…
In a wide-ranging interview with Container News, the International Maritime Organization (IMO)’s container experts Alfredo Parroquín-Ohlson and Bingbing Song, have addressed many of the key issues…
The “bunker”, which is the main consumable for ships, is Fuel Oil obtained by the distillation of crude oil. Crude oil contains sulfur, which causes…