Maritime News

Shanghai port recorded 43.3m teu in container volumes in 2019, ranking it as the world’s busiest container port for the 10th year.

Singapore shipyard group Keppel Offshore & Marine has delivered its first rig newbuilding of the year to Borr Drilling.

Bahrain shipyard ASRY is undertaking a modernisation programme including welding machine, LED dock lighting and machine shop upgrades.

The search has been suspended for two missing from a fishing boat involved in a collision with chemical tanker Bow Fortune on Tuesday in Galveston.

Mutual insurers are holding their breath during the early weeks of IMO 2020 regulations, as fuel compliance, scrubber performance and wash water issues present a whole new series of liability risks.

China’s Ningbo-Zhoushan port recorded 1.12bn tonnes of cargo throughput last year, ranking it as the world’s busiest port for eleven consecutive years.

Qatargas management team has visited China’s CSSC Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding for potential cooperation on LNG carriers.

Once the world’s largest container port Hong Kong volumes continued to decline last year by 6.3% to 18.36m teu.

ReCAAP has called for increased patrols in the Singapore Strait after armed robbery attacks spiked to a four year high the busy shipping lane in 2019.

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.