Netherlands-based Tharsis Sea-River Shipping has signed a contract with eConowind to install its wind propulsion systems on the 2,364-dwt diesel-electric general cargo vessel.

Intercargo has hit out over charterers preventing crew changes on dry bulk vessels with seafarers from certain Southeast Asian nations treated as “toxic”.

The “pivot” of vessel owner Scorpio Bulkers from kamsarmaxes and ultramaxes to wind turbine installation vessels (WTIVs) is likely to be a sharper and more ferocious turn than market observers were anticipating previously.

The first bulker has called at the new bulk terminal in the Port of Esbjerg, Denmark.

Traditional shipping centres such as Piraeus will face increasing competition with the rise of new hubs over the next 20 years.

Trying to operate ships in a global pandemic seems to be getting more complicated every day.

The China Navigation Company (CNCo) has launched a new specialist project division to provide shipping services to energy, resource and infrastructure sector.

Brazilian miner Vale and Ningbo-Zhoushan Port are setting up a joint venture to build, own and operate a terminal Shulanghu port, Zhoushan, Zhejiang province.

Scorpio Bulkers is continuing to sell off kamsarmax bulkers as it looks to refocus on the renewable energy sector.

Shipping can throw some pretty difficult scenarios at the people who work in it, ever more so a year that has a global pandemic, and the virtual version of the US annual Association of Ship Brokers and Agents (ASBA) conference, role played...