1.Classification society, Bureau Veritias (BV) has been approved by the China Maritime Safety Administration to operate in international ship registration inspection and classification services in Chinese free trade zones. 2.An average 5% i

The Singapore Shipping Association (SSA)the industry voice of Singapores maritime communitytoday organized its inaugural Tech and Demo Day, during which it announced the formation of a new Digital Transformation Committee. The association s

Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has hired Christopher Jones, a renowned former shipbroker with almost 50 years experience in the shipping industry. Chris will join the firm on 1 August as a Consultant in our Singapore offices Shipping p

Most voyage charterparties make the commencement of laytime conditional on the tender of a valid notice of readiness. If the notice is invalid, then in the absence of a waiver by charterers laytime will not commence at all, even if the char

Tokyo Gas Engineering Solutions (TGES) has been awarded a deal by Taiwans CPC Corporation (CPC) to conduct the front end engineering design (FEED) for an expansion project of its LNG receiving terminal at Yung An. TGES, a part of the Tokyo

Duringthe process of using ECDIS installed onboard, there are lots of questions and doubts raised by the mariner, this may cause confuse when PSC inspection and vetting are being carried out on the ship. Especially, when ECDIS software upgra

Chinas crude oil futures settled higher on Wednesday. The most active contract for September 2019 delivery increased 1.27 percent to 446.4 yuan per barrel, data from the Shanghai International Energy Exchange showed. China launched its firs

Sustainable shipping for a sustainable planet has been selected as the World Maritime theme for 2020. This will provide an opportunity to raise awareness of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and showcase the work that

Really Bad or Really Good In recent years, Chinas shipbuilding capacity has been continuously reducing due to the bankruptcy and conversion. The reduction of shipbuilding capacity (supply) does not result in a price going up but going down,

1.Recently, Shenzhen Maritime Safety Administration issued first electronic certificate for seafarers, marking that Shenzhen seafarers certificate took the lead into the electronic era. 2.Chinas Shandong province has officially set up Shand

Recently, Shenzhen Maritime Safety Administration issued first electronic certificate for seafarers, marking that Shenzhen seafarers certificate took the lead into the electronic era. It is reported that the Shenzhen Maritime Safety Adminis

Drewry has downgraded its forecast for throughput growth in 2019 as outside risks mount. CONT port throughput growth is expected to continue its softening trend in 2019, as the industry comes to grips with numerous headwinds. Whether trade

Further to our Alert of 17 July 2019, the Tokyo and the Paris MoUs issued a joint press release on 27 July 2019 outlining the focus areas for the upcoming concentrated inspection campaign starting on 1 September 2019 and released the questi

Chinese iron ore futures rose more than 3% on Tuesday, extending gains for a fourth straight session, on expectations that imports of the steelmaking material remained weak in July, keeping supply somewhat tight in the worlds top steel prod

The Hong Kong Seaport Alliance (HKSPA) today welcomed OOCL HONG KONG, one of the worlds largest container vessels, on its maiden call to Hong Kong at the HKSPAs facilities at Terminal 8. The vessel, together with ten other mega vessels from