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The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) is leading calls for governments to prioritise seafarers and frontline maritime shore workers in the vaccine queue and to designate seafarers as keyworkers, to avoid a repeat of the 2020 crew change crisis.
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Another container ship has spilled up to 750 boxes into the sea, just weeks after the ONE Apus lost some 1,900.
Maersk Essen, on route from Xiamen to Los Angeles, and carrying up to 13,092 TEUs, lost a “very significant number of containers overboard in the Pacific Ocean on 16 January”, according to W K Webster, reportedly during severe weather.
According to FleetMon, up to 100 drifting containers are drifting northwest of Honolulu.
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Price of shipping a container has never been so high
China’s soybean imports from the United States in 2020 rose by 52.8% from a year earlier, customs data showed on Wednesday, though the stepped up buying likely fell short of what was needed to fulfil last year’s trade deal between the countries. The world’s top soybean buyer last year brought in...
MABUX World Bunker Index (consists of a range of prices for 380 HSFO, VLSFO and MGO Gasoil) in the main world hubs) increased on Jan.20: 380 HSFO – USD/MT – 366.35 (+3.21) VLSFO – USD/MT – 462.00 (+3.00) MGO – USD/MT – 518.74 (+3.75) Correlation between the Market Bunker Price Index (BPI) vs MABUX...
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Norwegian shipyard group tasked with new design concept for emissions-free shipping
Second quarter will see emulsified bunker fuel deployed on boxships as a precursor to a wider take up.
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Owners have taken three vessels out of the European market this year, with just nine anchor-handlers remaining in the UK
Equinor and Moss Maritime are joining in a unique test to explore the potential of floating offshore solar panels writes Dag Pike.