Europe

Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has upgraded its e-business platform myMSC with the addition of a new online Instant Quote function.

The Norwegian ship registries are to allow bareboat registration and deregistration from 1 July.

Finland’s state-owned gas firm Gasum has opened a new LNG bunkering station at Sweden’s Nynashamn port located at the Port of Stockholm premises.

Technology group Wartsila is claiming to start the world’s first long term, full-scale testing of ammonia as a marine fuel in four-stroke combustion engine, along with partners Knutsen OAS Shipping, Repsol and Sustainable Energy Catapult Centre.

Denmark’s Norden has ordered four 61,000-dwt dry bulk ultramax carriers at China’s Nantong Cosco Khi Ship Engineering (Nacks).

Two webinars around last Thursday’s Day of the Seafarer drew attention to the misery of some 400,000 stranded seafarers who cannot return home to their families or, conversely, sign on for new employment.

The Greek government has hit on the head suggestions it is considering an amendment to the Piraeus port concession agreement with Cosco Shipping to give a permit for the construction of a shipyard by PPA SA (Piraeus Port Authority), declared...