Positions PIL for Recovery and Sustainable Long-Term Growth Pacific International Lines (PIL) is pleased to announce that it has garnered support from a significant majority of its creditors and noteholders for its debt restructuring plan.

Alexander Enstrm joins world-leading coatings manufacturer Hempel to lead its new global marine organisation, as Hempel looks to build on its leadership position in the marine industry. With a strategic ambition to double revenue by 2025, H

Tomorrow marks the beginning of the leading international maritime trade event, SMM DIGITAL, for the first time held as a fully digital conference this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. At the online opening press conference for SMM DIG

The ten teams selected for the final phase of Helsinki Energy Challenge have submitted their final competition entries. The finalist entries include many different proposals on how Helsinki can stop using coal for heat production as sustain

Energy storage pioneer Corvus Energy is set to start development and production of sustainable, large scale maritime-certified hydrogen fuel cell systems. Production will be located in Bergen, Norway with Toyota onboard as key partner and s

The Republic of the Marshall Islands is not only white listed with the Paris and Tokyo Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs), but has also maintained QUALSHIP 21 status with the United States Coast Guard for 16 consecutive years, which is unp

Crew repatriation and its wellness,all parties collaboration are the hottest topics in maritime industry under such global Covid-19.Xinde Marine News was very glad to have a talk with Captain Rajesh Unni, founder and CEO of Synergy Group, w

Todays shipowners face a simultaneous battle on two fronts, states leading paint and coatings manufacturer Jotun. A growing pressure to comply with ever more stringent environmental regulations is matched by a need to control costs, and enh

Global e-Navigation leader NAVTOR has announced a bold move into the realm of fleet management and performance optimisation with the launch of NavFleet. The breakthrough application, developed over the past two years in collaboration with k

On the morning of January 29th, the first 1800TEU container ship built by Yangzijiang Shipbuilding for Japans PSM Company was successfully christened and delivered in New Yangzi Shipbuilding. Mr. Masahiro Shimizu, the manager of the site of

2M Alliance container shipping members A.P. Moller-Maersk and Mediterranean Shipping Company have canceled four sailings out of China around the Lunar New Year holiday in February to get back on schedule after port congestion caused widespr

Container throughput at Chinas major ports recorded an accelerated increase in mid-January, data from an industrial association showed. From Jan 11 to 20, container throughput at Chinas eight key ports increased 3.3 percent year-on-year, wi

Chinas iron ore port inventories were up slightly from a week ago to about 125 million mt in the week of Jan. 17, CEIC data showed Jan. 26, as most steel mills relying on seaborne procurement nearly completed their restocking ahead of the L

The freight rate of most routes was stable, and the composite index drops slightly Ningbo Containerized Freight Index: In the week ending Jan-22, Ningbo Containerized Freight Index (NCFI) issued by Ningbo Shipping Exchange (NBSE) quotes 245

Some major but unsurprising decisions shook the North American energy market last Wednesday. January 20th saw the US re-join the Paris Climate Agreement, ban the development of the controversial Keystone XL (KXL) project and temporary freez