[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Qatar-based Milaha has launched a door-to-door shipping service between Qatar and UAE, mainly targeting SMEs in the automotive spare parts, fashion retail, and the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sectors. The service frequency is expected [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Shipping goods across borders with reusable containers and tracking systems is better for the environment, consumers and companies, yet differential treatment by customs authorities can be detrimental for business, International Chamber of Commerce reported. [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Hull performance monitoring solutions offer significant fuel savings potential and have prompted growing interest from the maritime industry. In November 2016, the new ISO standard on hull and propeller performance assessment (ISO 19030) for [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Four VLCCs have been sold for demolition since October 2016. Matching the number of VLCCs sold for demolition in the preceding two years. Most recently the 1999-built double-hull VLCC, with the framing name “Good News”, [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As part of Mental Health Awareness Week, the Mission to Seafarers is highlighting the mental health challenges faced by seafarers and calling on the industry to offer wider services that could help safeguard their welfare. [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Singapore has retained its title as the world’s top maritime centre in Menon Economics’ Leading Maritime Capitals of the World report for 2017. Much of the press coverage has focused on this fact, largely overlooking [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]China is looking to take a stake of up to 85 percent in a strategically important sea port in Myanmar, according to documents, in a move that could heighten tensions over China’s growing economic clout [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The international market has a message for American refiners: Stay calm and keep turning crude into diesel. While a global glut has pushed crude prices down to five-month lows, manufacturers of middle distillates can’t make [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Every year, the vessels in Hapag-Lloyd’s fleet – which currently includes 166 ships – transport several million containers over the world’s oceans. But not all cargo fits into the standardized steel boxes. In response to [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Alastair Marsh, Lloyd’s Register’s CEO, signed two Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) during Singapore Maritime Week. The first concerns research and development (R&D), intelligent systems for real time condition monitoring, unmanned systems and robotics for operations, [...]
