Regions

Wartsila has developed a customised solution for four LNG-fuelled short-sea cargo vessels ordered by Netherlands-based Wijnne & Barends Chartering, an affiliate of the Dutch Spliethoff Group.

Bimco has announced the appointment of David Loosley as the shipping association’s new ceo and secretary general with effect from June 2020.

The former southern shipbuilding group CSSC of the newly restructured China State Shipbuilding Corporation has obtained approval from China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) on an internal restructuring plan.

The Nigerian authorities say they are seeing gains from renewed attempts to enforce the country’s Cabotage law.

The Chinese authorities have caught two vessels for low sulphur fuel violations, the first reported cases of breaches of IMO 2020.

Dubai-based Tomini Shipping has taken delivery of three new ultramaxes last week as part of the company’s fleet renewal strategy.

German carrier Hapag-Lloyd is expecting to incur additional operating costs of around $1bn a year starting 2020 due to the new IMO 2020 global regulation, according to ceo Rolf Habben Jansen.

As technologies start to mature the 2020’s decade will see a revolution in business according to Chris Clott a director of New York Maritime Innovation Center (NYMIC).

The Liberian Registry has announced moves to further streamline and simplify the registration and re-registration of vessels in the registry.

Yangzijiang Shipbuilding has changed its legal representative from Ren Yuanlin to his son Ren Letian, and appointed him as chairman and general manager of the company.