Middle East & Africa

Danish bunker company Monjasa has opened its first West Africa office in Luanda, Angola, to support extensive oil and shipping activities in the region.

Chinese-built Lamu port in Kenya is expected to be launched in December and will receive its first ship call from Maersk Line.

Pirates have hit a second vessel within days in West Africa kidnapping four seafarers from the Greek tanker Elka Aristotle off Lome, Togo.

Nine seafarers from a JJ Ugland bulker have been taken hostage by pirates off Benin.

S&P Global Platts has started publishing time charter equivalent (TCE) assessments basis 0.5% sulphur bunker fuel for scrubber and non-scrubber dry bulk carriers from 1 November 2019.

More than 100 containerships are out of action due to scrubber retrofits and over 500 others are scheduled for retrofitting over the coming 12 months, according to data from Alphaliner.

The UAE has confirmed that the country is ready to submit a second term re-nomination to the IMO Council, which will be holding its elections on 29 November in London.

LogiPoint has inked a deal with Aramex to build and operate a new ground operations hub in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) formally inaugurated two new berths in the port of Umm Qasr, Iraq’s main dry cargo port.