Middle East & Africa

The 19 seafarers kidnapped by pirates from the VLCC Nave Constellation off Nigeria have been released.

A suspected pirate mothership has been sighted offshore Nigeria roughly between where two kidnapping incidents took place earlier this year.

Automated underwater hull cleaning service Hullwiper is to launch in Qatar.

With the start of IMO 2020 just weeks away issues of fuel compatibility with the greater use of very low sulphur fuels were highlighted at a seminar by the UAE Branch of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST).

The Topaz Energy and Marine name is disappearing as DP World launches a new merged services company under the P&O Maritime Logistics brand.

Pirates have struck far offshore West Africa for the second time this month taking 20 seafarers hostage the tanker Duke off Togo.

Live export company Wellard has inked a deal to sell the world’s largest purpose-built livestock carrier for $53m in an attempt to help complete the company’s recapitalisation program.

More than 10% of the world’s containership capacity will be fitted with scrubbers by January 2020 when IMO’s global 0.5% fuel sulphur cap comes into effect, according to analyst Alphaliner.

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International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) has, together with its local partners, started the second phase expansion of its Matadi Gateway Terminal (MGT), Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).