First Fully Digital Bunkering Will Come into Force at Singapore from April 2025

Singapore will be the first port in the world to go fully digital for bunkering, ditching all paper bunker delivery notes. At a keynote speech during the biennial Singapore International Bunkering Conference and Exhibition on 9 October, Singapore’s Senior Minister of State for Transport, Dr. Amy Khor, said this will be effective from 1 April

Korean Shipbuilders Lag Behind Chinese Ship Orders

Korean shipbuilders lagged far behind their Chinese rivals in terms of taking shipbuilding orders in September. According to British shipbuilding and shipping market analyst Clarkson Research, global shipbuilding orders totaled 2.89 million CGT (90 units) in September, down 25 percent from a year earlier. China topped the standings with orders for 2.48 million CGT (65

Energy Transition Outlook: Energy related emissions will peak in 2024

2024 will go down as the year of peak energy emissions, according to DNV’s Energy Transition Outlook. Energy related emissions are at the cusp of a prolonged period of decline for the first time since the industrial revolution.  Emissions are set to almost halve by 2050, but this is a long way short of requirements

The Middle East Conflict Has No Major Impact on Energy Supplies: Hardeep Singh Puri

The government does not see any major impact on oil supplies to the country owing to the ongoing conflict in West Asia, said Union minister for petroleum and natural gas Hardeep Singh Puri. However, any further escalation of the situation could hit energy availability, he added. Shippers have been avoiding the Red Sea route for

India Working to Convert Ships to Run on Green Energy: Pralhad Joshi

India is currently working on converting existing ships into vessels that run on green energy, Union minister of new and renewable energy Pralhad Joshi said on Monday in his address at the Hamburg Sustainability Conference in Germany. The Minister said that the focus is now on converting existing vessels to operate on green hydrogen or

Hoppe Marine, Metis cooperate in field of cloud-based real-time fleet optimization

Hoppe Marine GmbH (Germany) and Metis (Greece) have entered into a strategic cooperation in the field of onboard Data Acquisition. More specifically  the cooperation ensures the seamless integration of Hoppe’s data collection systems with the Metis cloud-based performance management platform. This partnership aims to expand the use of high-frequency data analytics in vessel performance management,

Maersk Expects IMO to Approve Global CO2 Levy Next Year

Shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S expects IMO, the industry’s global regulator, to approve a charge on vessels’ greenhouse gas emissions. At International Maritime Organization (IMO) talks in London, nations have been inching toward new regulations to reign in emissions from a sector that annually spews about a billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Maersk group representative

Port of Rotterdam Terminals to be Equipped with Shore Power by 2028

The Hutchison Ports ECT Rotterdam container terminals in the port of Rotterdam are to be equipped with shore power facilities for shipping in the years ahead. The delivery of the ‘shore power as a service’ will be from Rotterdam Shore Power, a joint venture between Dutch energy company Eneco and the Port of Rotterdam Authority,

BIO-UV Group to supply BIO-SEA ballast water treatment tech to Piriou Group

France-based water treatment pioneer BIO-UV Group has secured an agreement with shipbuilder Piriou Group to supply its BIO-SEA ballast water treatment technology to a further six wind-powered cargo ships building for French operator TOWT (TransOceanic Wind Transport). The new deal follows an initial 2022 contract to supply BIO-SEA systems to the first two vessels in

Wärtsilä to future-proof container vessels with CCS-Ready scrubber tech

Technology group Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply its latest carbon capture and storage-ready scrubber systems – CCS-Ready scrubbers – for three container ships owned by German operator Leonhardt & Blumberg. A CCS-Ready solution will assure Leonhardt & Blumberg that it has continued regulatory compliance for SOx emissions today and opens the door to a