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Gentium and Damen Shipyards Group have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Industry of Bangladesh in Dhaka with an aim to establishing and developing a shipbuilding and ship repair industry in Bangladesh.

UK Maritime Minister Nusrat Ghani visited Port of Felixstowe this week to mark the start of work to upgrade the port’s ro-ro facilities in anticipation of receiving greater roll-on-roll-off traffic after Britain leaves the European Union (EU).

The multipurpose shipping (MPV) sector is forecast to see a rise in earnings this year on the back of stronger cargo demand relative to capacity, according to analyst Drewry.

A partnership of MISC, Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), Lloyd’s Register (LR) and MAN Energy Solutions is working on a joint development project (JDP) for an ammonia-fuelled tanker to support shipping’s drive towards a decarbonised future.

The search is continuing for two fisherman missing from a collision with the chemical tanker Bow Fortune in Galveston, which happened while the tanker was under pilotage according to owners Odfjell tankers.

The Port of Corpus Christi ended 2019 with record tonnage for December with 13.8m cargo tonnes and 122.2m cargo tonnes for the year as a whole— a 16m-tonne improvement over 2018 tonnage.

Online freight forwarder iContainers says misdeclared cargoes causing boxship fires needs to be addressed this year.

Singapore-headquartered terminal operator PSA saw a 5.2% increase in container volumes handled worldwide to 85.2m teu powered by its international business.

A fire broke out at a petrochemical plant at Gaolan port area of Zhuhai port yesterday causing a massive explosion.

Despite numerous tales of scrubber installation delays shipyard ASRY in Bahrain says it has retrofitted an exhaust gas cleaning system to a VLCC in 33 days.