Shipping carriers rejected tons of U.S. agricultural exports, opting to send empty containers to China

Shipping carriers rejected U.S. agricultural export containers worth hundreds of millions of dollars during October and November, instead sending empty containers to China to be filled with more profitable Chinese exports, a CNBC investigation found. The Federal Maritime Commission has received petitions from U.S. agricultural exporters warning that the delays in trade not only threaten …

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Apollo Syndicate 1969 appoints Rob Johnston as head of marine and energy liability

Apollo Syndicate Management (“Apollo”), the independent specialist insurer and reinsurer, today announced that Rob Johnston has been appointed as head of marine and energy liability at Apollo Syndicate 1969. He will join the business in April, reporting to Simon Mason, head of marine and energy. Johnston joins Apollo from MS Amlin, where he has managed …

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Newly licensed UK technology will improve marine oil spill response

Agile Spray Response Ltd has been granted the Export Sales Licence to manufacture, market and sell CONVERT400, the HM Government Maritime Coastguard Agency’s (MCA) chosen oil dispersant spray system (ODSS). CONVERT400’s design improves accessibility to and affordability of airborne spray response strategies used to disperse oil spills quickly and effectively, around the world. CONVERT400 does …

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MSC CEO Soren Toft Backs Industry Campaign For Seafarers Amid Global Crew Change Crisis

As the latest measure to alleviate hardship on seafarers, MSC has joined forces with peers across the maritime value chain in a worldwide call to action to end the unprecedented crew change crisis caused by COVID-19. Hundreds of thousands of seafarers are stuck at sea since crew changes were banned...

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Infinium Closes Funding to Decarbonize Transportation Sector with Electrofuels Solution

Infinium, an electrofuels solution provider, today announced the close of a funding round bringing together a consortium of investors including Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), AP Ventures, Neuman & Esser, and the Grantham Environmental Trust. The proceeds will be used to advance the development of commercial scale applications to decarbonize the transportation …

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Methanol’s bunkering uptake blunted by availability, industrial lure: Methanex

Methanol offers significant greenhouse gas savings as a bunker fuel but demand for its use in other sectors along with limits on availability are preventing wider uptake, at least for now, Stuart McCall, director for Business Development at Canadian methanol producer Methanex told S&P Global Platts...

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