October 15, 2017
The system is moving northeast at 25 miles per hour with top winds of 115 mph, according to the NHC. (more…)
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Environment
October 10, 2017
MAN Diesel & Turbo has pledged a EUR 2 million (USD 2.35 million) discount to shipowners for ten retrofits to liquified natural gas from existing...
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October 9, 2017
Tropical Storm Nate rapidly weakened as it moved over Alabama on Sunday, although the fast-moving former hurricane rattled the doors of Biloxi’s casinos and left...
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October 6, 2017
Oil and natural gas operators began evacuating staff and halting production at U.S. Gulf of Mexico platforms on Thursday ahead of Tropical Storm Nate, the...
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October 3, 2017
The vast majority of new ships carrying consumer goods already exceed International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) post-2025 energy efficiency requirement. (more…)
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October 2, 2017
As the shipping industry continues to assess the likely impact of the International Maritime Organization’s new 0.5% sulfur cap in 2020, the conversation has started...
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October 1, 2017
Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory of 3.4 million people, struggled through a tenth day with virtually no electricity, patchy communications and shortages of fuel, clean...
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September 29, 2017
Carnival Corp’s chief executive said on Thursday that the cruise company expected Puerto Rico and the Caribbean to rebound by winter after hurricanes that wrecked...
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September 29, 2017
There is no need to delay the proposed implementation of new marine sulfur emission norms beyond 2020, as the refining industry has the ability to...
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September 24, 2017
A ship resumed the process of pumping out the residual fuel from the sunken oil tanker Agia Zoni II off Salamina over the weekend amid...
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September 24, 2017
Historically, the fuel of choice for the vast majority of large cargo ships has been heavy fuel oil. But in 2020, sulphur oxide emissions will...
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September 22, 2017
The Greek government is promising urgent inspections of small coastal tankers, 11 days after an oil spill from a shipwreck left beaches on Athens’s coastline...
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September 22, 2017
Speaking at the Platts European Refining Summit in Brussels Thursday, European refiners were cautiously optimistic on their ability to provide compliant 0.5% sulfur marine fuels...
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September 20, 2017
Hurricane Maria, the second maximum-strength storm to rage over the Caribbean this month, killed at least one person in Guadeloupe and barreled toward the Virgin...
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September 17, 2017
International shipowner organizations ICS, BIMCO, Intertanko and Intercargo, have jointly submitted to IMO a new paper to further elaborate their views on the initial strategy...
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