This year, for the period January-August, most of the vessels that entered the Panamanian Registry were bulk carriers.

In another sign that container shipping is reaching the insane freight and charter rate levels of dry bulk shipping supercycle in 2008 the new business opportunity is carrying containers on bulk carriers.

The Liberian Registry has strengthened its global team with the addition of Captain Todd Howard, who joins the registry as Senior Vice President of Quality and Inspector Standards.

Abu Dhabi-based self-elevating support vessel (SESV) operator, Gulf Marine Services, has hired Lloyd’s Register (LR) to install a new cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system developed by Hanseaticsoft.

As the maritime industries come under growing pressure to act now on decarbonisation the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has proposed a global carbon levy.

Greek shipowners have slammed the fact shipping industry’s “needs are absent from the list of priorities of governmental officials and decision-makers”.

A trade association representing offshore vessel owners operating the Gulf of Mexico is taking the monitoring of the US Jones Act into its own hands with the Jones Act Enforcer.

GTT and China classification society (CCS) have signed a MoU concerning a technical cooperation for the application of GTT membrane technology

ABS will class a new Floating Production Storage and Offloading Vessel (FPSO) for the Lu Feng 12-3 oilfield.

The battle lines are already drawn. Even before the actual text of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act 2021 (OSRA 2021) legislation had been released, the objections were already flying around.