With plenty of rain finally falling over the past week in Panama, the authorities have postponed a sixth draft restriction of 2019. The maximum authorised draft of 13.11 m for vessels transiting the new neopanamax locks and 11.73 m for vessels transiting the old panamax locks will become effective...
https://splash247.com/rain-eases-the-pain-for-the-panama-canal/
A total of 12 boxships will be diverted over a five-day period.
Ship Finance International closes Q1 2019 with a considerably higher net income.
The Panama Canal has announced it is postponing its latest and sixth draught reduction to 12 June following rainfall in the past week.
http://www.seatrade-maritime.com/news/americas/panama-canal-postpones-latest-draught-reduction.html
Digitalization is happening now in the shipping ecosystem. Big words aside, what this means to shipowners is that information about equipment, processes, you name it… can be generated, stored and analyzed in larger quantities, with more precision, and from new vantage points.
http://www.seatrade-maritime.com/news/americas/meet-the-digital-chief-engineer.html
Greek trio indicted for failing to keep accurate ship pollution control records, falsifying records in the US.
Four months after a severe blaze ripped through it the boxship has finally reached its Canadian destination, delivering some of the containers that survived the fire. The Hapag-Lloyd vessel arrived in the Port of Halifax on the eastern seaboard of Canada yesterday, having spent nearly four months...
https://splash247.com/burnt-yantian-express-finally-makes-it-to-its-halifax-destination/
On May 29, the Port of Corpus Christi will see the commencement of the Ship Channel Improvement Project.
The US Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) elected William D. McKnight as chairman on May 20, 2019.
https://worldmaritimenews.com/archives/277156/georgia-ports-authority-names-new-chairman/
The Panama Canal announces improvements to its Green Connection Environmental Recognition Program.