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| Egypt cuts transit fees through Suez Canal by half | 5 days 4 hours ago | | Added: Aug 17, 2017 12:29 |
| | The Egyptian government announced that transit rates for container vessels in the northern and southern Suez ports will be reduced from between 3 – 50 per cent depending on the number of containers they carry. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| Aberdeen Harbour supports Maersk Oil decommissioning campaign | 5 days 4 hours ago | | Added: Aug 17, 2017 12:28 |
| | Two subsea mid water arches weighing around 100 t each are just some of the items that have been landed at Aberdeen Harbour as the port supports Maersk Oil’s decommissioning campaign for the James, Janice, Affleck and Leadon fields in the North Sea. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| Despite Embargo, Hamad Port Adds New Routes | 11 days 4 hours ago | | Added: Aug 11, 2017 11:55 |
| | Qatar's minister of transport, Jassin bin Saif al Sulaiti, has announced new shipping routes from Qatar's Hamad port to Pakistan, Malaysia and Taiwan – another means of circumventing Saudi-led trade sanctions on the small Persian Gulf emirate. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| BIMCO eLearning dramatically refreshed | 11 days 5 hours ago | | Added: Aug 11, 2017 11:48 |
| | The first short documentary course is NYPE 2015, which is based on one of the most popular individual contracts available through BIMCO, only takes an hour! Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| ICHCA community to discuss protection against physical and cyber attacks | 11 days 5 hours ago | | Added: Aug 11, 2017 11:45 |
| | Following the Petya attack in June, one of the biggest cyber-attacks ever experienced in global shipping which crippled A.P. Moller-Maersk’s computer systems worldwide for five days, the need to protect against both cyber and physical threats to critical maritime infrastructures has been topmost on the minds of many in the cargo handling industry. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| Hanjin struggles to pay creditors | 11 days 5 hours ago | | Added: Aug 11, 2017 11:39 |
| | South Korea’s Hanjin Shipping, which faces credit claims totalling around US$10.5bn, has raised only a fraction of that amount from asset sales since its bankruptcy last August. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| World Oil Transit Chokepoints 2017 | 20 days 5 hours ago | | Added: Aug 02, 2017 10:58 |
| | World chokepoints for maritime transit of oil are a critical part of global energy security. About 61% of the world's petroleum and other liquids production moved on maritime routes in 2015. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| Wave Energy Concept Ready for Ship Propulsion | 20 days 5 hours ago | | Added: Aug 02, 2017 10:55 |
| | Wave energy technology is ready to be combined with solar and wind power to create zero emission ships, says JosĂ© Luis GutiĂ©rrez-GarcĂa, CEO, ZShips International CCC. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| Firm demand will continue to support dry bulk shipping | 20 days 6 hours ago | | Added: Aug 02, 2017 10:48 |
| | Drewry expects that dry bulk shipping charter rates will continue to recover with firm demand and controlled fleet growth, according to the latest edition of the Dry Bulk Forecaster, published by global shipping consultancy Drewry. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| First ship with IMO Tier III EIAPP certified Wärtsilä engines is launched | 29 days 19 hours ago | | Added: Jul 23, 2017 21:24 |
| | The launch of the L’Astrolabe, a 72 metre polar logistics vessel fitted with a complete Wärtsilä propulsion machinery package and Wärtsilä NOR (NOx Reducer) SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) exhaust gas cleaning systems for all the main engines, took place on July 12. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| New Tanker Regulations May Impact Oil Prices | 29 days 19 hours ago | | Added: Jul 23, 2017 21:16 |
| | The advent of super oil tanker ships and giant freight carriers, along with upcoming rules on sulfur used in marine vessel fuel, are expected to influence demand and pricing in bunker fuel and crude oil. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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| Stop blaming the rescuers | 1 month 4 days ago | | Added: Jul 18, 2017 20:46 |
| | Attacks against rescue efforts in the Mediterranean must stop. The recent Italian and EU proposals are just the last steps of an ongoing de-legitimisation campaign that is putting the lives of thousands of migrants at risk. Read more | | Source: Maritime Connector | |
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