Marine fuel supplier Minerva Bunkering has introduced a new marine fuels supply service in the Red Sea ports of Yanbu and Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The post Minerva sets up new service…
https://www.offshore-energy.biz/minerva-sets-up-new-service-in-red-sea-ports/
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The Middle East remains a volatile area for merchant shipping into the new year, according to the analysis of attacks on ships in the region.
Iran’s armed seizure of a South Korean tanker, the Hankuk Chemi, on Jan. 4 adds to the list of incidents where civilian ships have been targeted in the Middle East. Iranian forces boarded the vessel in the Strait of Hormuz as it was leaving the Persian Gulf, which comes less than a week after another tanker, Pola, was...
A tanker berthed at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, reportedly suffers an explosion at around 2210 UTC Dec 13.
The cause for the explosion is due to some external factors.
According to a recent news article published in the Maritime Bulletin, written by Erofey Schkvarkin, a tanker berthed at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, suffers an explosion at around 2210 UTC Dec 13.
Also a news article in Business World highlights the other vital details concerning the explosion.
What happened?Tanker BW RHINE, berthed at Jeddah,...
DP World reported Monday that 2020 first-half volumes were down 3.9% from the same period last year and that it had acquired a 60% stake in UNICO Logistics.
DP World Ltd. handled 33.9 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) across its global portfolio of container terminals in the first half of 2020, with gross container volumes decreasing 5.3% year-over-year on a reported basis and 3.9% on a like-for-like basis.
DP World said like-for-like container totals adjust for volumes at Posorja,...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/dp-world-volumes-decrease-portfolio-increases
A fuel oil non-availability report exists, however, “this is intended for temporary purposes only,” Calleya said.