Maritime News

Shanghai port posted a new record container volume of 43.5m teu in 2020, retaining the title of the world’s busiest container port for the 11th year in a row.

A bunker tanker NewOcean 6 operating in the Port of Singapore has been quarantined after nine Covid-19 cases among its crew.

ICTSI subsidiary Specialised Container Terminal (TECII) Contecon Manzanillo, in Mexico, closed 2020 with a record volume of just over 1m teu up 1.03% compared to 998,006 teu the year before.

The Isle of Man Ship Registry (IOMSR) has appointed its first permanent representative in China in the person of Jonathan Kingdon, an experienced naval architect, newbuilding project manager and Mandarin speaker.

An Indian seafarer onboard the MSC bulker Anastasia, which has been thwarted in crew change plans since June 2020, attempted suicide in desperation over his inability to return home to his family in India.

Trading volumes in the freight derivatives markets for both tankers and dry cargo vessels saw an increase in 2020, according to data by the Baltic Exchange.

Japan’s ClassNK has advised shipowners to install Ballast Water Management Systems (BWMS) “well in advance” of 2022, which is the installation deadline based on the BWMS Convention for many of its registered ships.

Wallenius Wilhelmsen will reactivate up to nine of its 16 ships currently in cold layup during the first quarter, replacing capacity presently sourced through short term charters.

South Korea has called on Iran to release a South Korean oil tanker seized in the Strait of Hormuz by Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, it was reported.

China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) has started the second phase of construction of Changxing shipbuilding base, which will be a new yard for Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding.