From 24-hour polar bear guards to 60 day voyages rolling and fishtailing across the Pacific Ocean, extreme salvage operations cover the most unpredictable work in shipping.

NYK Bulk & Project Carriers (NBP) and Chile's National Copper Corporation (Codelco) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly study the decarbonised transport of copper products.

BAR Technologies has completed the first cut steelwork for the first production run of its WindWings propulsion system.

Japanese shipowner NYK says that along MTI and Elomatic it has completed concept designs for an ammonia-fuel ready Capesize bulker and a VLCC.

As the shipping industry is navigating the winds of change it is to blame for it becoming the focus of world regulators rather than other much heavy polluters, according to John Platsidakis.

North European ammonia-powered shortsea shipping project Flexbulk – NH3 has signed its eighth charterer, aggregates shipping company Stema Shipping.

The container and dry bulk sectors are the most vulnerable to risks from the world economy but uncertainties prevail in other sectors too.

Marubeni has signed an agreement to install a Bound4Blue suction sail system aboard panamax bulk carrier Crimson Kingdom.

Greek shipowners are continuing to renew their fleet as more newbuilding contracts emerge. As of mid-October some 234 tankers, bulkers, containerships and gas carriers were contracted along with three pure car carriers.

Tomini Shipping in Dubai has acquired two more handysize dry bulk vessels, bringing the total joining its fleet this year to 13.