The Lloyd’s Register (LR) and five Greek ship owning companies have banded together to launch a global nonprofit Maritime Emissions Reduction Center (M-ERC) in Athens to optimise the efficiency of the existing fleet.

Feeder vessels have become the focus of short-term charters as liner operators reconfigure their Asia to Europe services around the Cape of Good Hope, requiring feeders for the Mediterranean region in particular.

UK-based wind propulsion specialist, BAR Technologies, and Spanish floating wind developer, Nervion Naval Offshore, have set up a partnership to manufacture, sell and supply BAR Technologies’ WindWings sails in Spain.

Four people died when a disgruntled former employee went on a shooting rampage at a shipping company in the southern Athens suburb of Glyfada on the morning of February 12.

Finnish manufacturer Norsepower has signed the largest order for rotor sails, 18 units in total to install on three cargo vessels for Airbus.

Angela Chao, the CEO of US-based bulker owner Foremost Group, has died in a car accident.

Four people, including an owner of the vessel operator European Navigation have been shot dead in the southern Athens suburb of Glyfada.

QatarEnergy, which owns the world’s largest fleet of LNG carriers, has selected Nakilat (Qatar Gas Transport Company Limited) to own and operate up to 25 new LNG carriers of 174,000m3 to be built at shipyards in South Korea.

Furetank has ordered two more of its Vinga class tankers at China Merchants Jinling Shipyard, vessels which will complete its fleet renewal.

On the eve of Star Bulk Carriers’ full year results the Houthi Movement has launched a missile attack on the Star Iris, a panamax bulk carrier, in the Bab al-Mandeb straits, off Yemen.