Classification society DNV has released the new Naval Technical Assurance certification concept, as an alternative approach to the classification assurance process. The new concept is set down in the DNV-SE-0555 Naval technical assurance se

The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) will host the Lifting and Safety in Ports and Maritime event on 26October 2021 via Zoom. The free to attend event will be joined by Richard Steele from ICHCA International Cargo Handling Co

Image credit: Nordic Unmanned Over the summer EMSAs remotely piloted aircraft have been monitoring the level of sulphur oxides released by ships transiting the Strait of Gibraltar, one of the worlds busiest shipping lanes. The operation car

With the signing of another batch of 7000TEU container ship contracts, Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation, has a total of 22 orders for this type of ship, ranking first in the world. The 7

The number of container ships at anchor or drifting in San Pedro Bay off the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach has now blown through all previous records and is rising by the day. There were an all-time-high 65 container ships in the queu

The Baltic Exchanges main dry bulk sea freight index hit a 12-year high on Friday en route to its first weekly rise in three, propelled by gains across vessel segments. The overall index, which factors in rates for capesize, panamax, supram

Danish shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk lifted its 2021 outlook again on Thursday, riding the rise in freight rates which has resulted from a congested global supply chain. The coronavirus pandemic has prompted shortages of container ships

Woodward LOrange is one of the worlds leading manufacturers of injection systems and engine components for large diesel engines. It is now offering the marine industry flexible engine technology towards achieving compliance with a 50% green

With its second acquisition in less than a year, Svanehj expands its OEM activities and adds new skills to its rapidly growing service department for gas tankers. Gas is a crucial part of the sustainable energy system of the future, and Sva

Dangote ready to go? The news that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) intends to take a 20% stake in the $18 billion under-construction Dangote Refinery caused us to stop and consider what the impact of this would be. Then a cou

China State Shipbuilding Corporation officially announced that the groups civil shipbuilding and offshore orders have exceeded 100 billion , and completed its annual business target four months ahead of schedule. According to statistics, by

On September 16, the christening ceremony of 174,000m3 LNG ship GUI YING built by Hudong Zhonghua for CSSC (Hong Kong) Shipping Company Limited was successfully held. This is the second LNG ship christened within one month after MU LAN on A

One year from now WindEnergy Hamburg 2022 will launch its innovativeH2 Expo and Conferencewhich will span the entire spectrum of hydrogen technology. What is more, for the first time the conference programme of the worlds leading wind indus

Navigator Gas has been awarded a new Approval in Principle (AiP) for an ammonia fuelled gas carrier design from classification society DNV. An industrywide consortium, including MAN Energy solutions, Babcock International, and the Norwegian

Recent moves made by international shipping companies to freeze cargo rates will do little to ease strained shipping capacity and improve logistics efficiency, Chinese traders said, as a wider range of Chinese products - from gifts to Chris