Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) and ABB have teamed up to bring autonomous tug operation to Singapore waters in 2020.

Russia’s Gazprom Neft has opened an office in Singapore to oversee international sales and logistics network of its marine lubricants.

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has revoked the bunker craft operator licence of Inter-Pacific Petroleum, effective from 15 October.

Singapore is setting up a new research centre for the development of autonomous ships.

Singapore has broken ground on Tuas Port, which at 65m teu when fully completed is expected to be the largest fully automated terminal in the world.

A high-level delegation from Singapore, led by Lam Pin Min, Senior Minister of State for Transport and Senior Minister of State for Health visited Panama, meeting for the first time with officials of Panama’s new government.

The use of LNG as a marine fuel for ships still has a long way to go before it can be commercially applied on a considerable scale globally, amid the shipping industry’s heightening interest in developing this clean fuel market.

Singapore, the world’s largest bunkering port, is on track to commence deliveries of compliant marine fuels from 2020 as homegrown Sinanju Tankers launches its first LNG-powered bunker tanker with a christening ceremony on Wednesday.

Singapore tested out its response to a ferry accident on Friday in an exercise involving both a collision and a medical evacuation.

The number of major incidents in Singapore waters continued to fall last year, continuing a trend seen over the last decade.