GAC Russia has been appointed by Yamal LNG to manage 400 port calls a year for icebreaking LNG carriers.

Malaysia-based integrated oil and gas services company Daya Materials is expanding into Papua New Guinea with an agreement to explore setting up a joint venture (JV) for the provision of services for oil and gas (O&G) projects there.

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard (HMD) and Lloyd's Register (LR) have teamed up to build the world's first ballast free LNG bunker tanker for Bernard Schulte Shipmanagement.

IMO secretary-general Ki-Tack Lim underscored the organisation’s commitment to enforcing the 0.5% sulphur cap on marine fuel from 2020, and in a warning for those hoping for a reprieve said “There is no turning back!”

The Port of Gothenburg is building a landside LNG bunkering facility as use of LNG as a marine fuel continues to gain traction.

Industry group SEA\LNG has launched an online tool to help shipowners understand the availability of LNG as a marine fuel.

Japan's “big three” shipowners NYK, Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and K Lines are all making moves into the LNG bunkering space.

Golar LNG Partners has bagged a 15-year FSRU charter contract with an undisclosed energy and logistics company for operation in the Atlantic Basin.

Lloyd’s Register ceo Alastair Marsh led a cutting of the traditional Vasilopita (Greek New Year’s cake) in honour of the London Greek community at the classification society’s corporate HQ in Fenchurch Street on Wednesday.

The appetite for newbuildings is evident as we move into 2018, with Greek owners continuing to building on an impressive $4.7bn investment in projects in 2017.