A consortium consisting of Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis), Van Oord, NMDC from Abu Dhabi and Jan de Nul have been awarded a contract from the Suez Canal Authorities for works on the expansion of the Suez Canal,
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and Intertanko have praised IMO’s decision to implement a more stringent type-approval procedure for Ballast Water Management Systems (BWMS) agreed at the Meeting of the Environmental Protection...
Oman’s Sohar Port and Freezone has started to offer ship-to-ship (STS) LNG services and revealed plans to establish LNG bunkering facilities in future.
Bringing forward the 2018 review year ahead of the enforcement of IMO’s regulation on the global 0.5% fuel sulphur content limit would be welcomed by the shipping industry, according to Shaj Thayil, global head of technical services at APL.
Brazil’s Petrobras, a major producer and exporter of low-sulphur fuel oil (LFSO), is not ready to invest in producing more of the cleaner fuel to meet potentially higher demand ahead of the IMO sulphur regulation.
A partnership project between the Nigerian Navy, Ocean Marine Security (OMS) and technical partner PGS Group is working to raise awareness on the availability of legalised security options for ships operating in Nigerian waters of West Africa.