SILVER JUBILEE OF MOL
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) announced that on July 25, it hosted a party in Jakarta for about 200 attendees, including customers, to celebrate...
ARCTIC SHIPPING AIMS TO BE MET BY RUSSIAN MINISTERS
Since the time, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared past year that shipping traffic through the Arctic’s Northern Sea Route must be raised to a...
Chinese Seaborne Imports from the US Affected by Chinese tariffs
Tariffs imposed by China jeopardize immensely the business volume of dry bulk shipping industry. In the last year, China imported 32 million tonnes of...
German firm Hapag-Lloyd makes way into Kenyan Shipping Industry
Hapag-Lloyd, World’s fifth-largest container shipping company, has entered the Kenyan shipping industry. There will be weekly trips from the port of Mombasa to Jeddah...
INDIA BEGINS BIO-METRIC FACIAL ID FOR SEAFARERS
India declares to have become the first nation in the world to begin biometric facial identification technology in its seafarer identification documents, commonly known...
SULPHUR 2020 – Lowering of Sulphur oxide emissions by 2020
Oxides of Sulphur (SOx) are long known to be severely damaging to people’s respiratory health and they are responsible for harmful acid rain causing...
BLOCKCHAIN TO PULL OUT PAPER BILL OF LADING
It is possible to retire the paper bill of lading in today’s digital world, a recent test of CargoX’s blockchain-based Smart Bill of Lading...
MASSIVE INDIAN CARGO COMPANY DESIRES TO FRAME AN UBER FOR SHIPPING
A unit of the Mumbai-based Allcargo, ECU Worldwide, which aggregates orders from clients, plan s to use Uber’s model to make it easier for...
NYK TO BUILD METHANOL – FUELED CHEMICAL TANKER WITH GREEN LOAN
NYK will obtain 2 billion yen from Taiyo Life Insurance Company as a green loan to particularly invest in the building of NYK’s first...
THE RACE FOR DOMINANCE
China emerges 2nd largest ship owner
A striking series of development has been witnessed by the Marine industry as China has emerged as the world’s...