The logs being used by a shipyard company in Barangay Lucanin here are legally sourced from suppliers who were granted logging permits by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Lucanin Barangay Captain Ludy Funilas said that he will not allow any illegal activity in his coastal village, particularly the use of illegally cut logs, because thi...
MIAMI — Carnival Cruise Lines will resume visits to Mexican ports of call based on the latest guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, which is no longer recommending against non-essential travel to Mexico. Once all voyages with previously modified itineraries are completed, those vessels will revert to their original routes featuring sto...
THE International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has stressed that IMO should be in control of any measures aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from shipping. ICS has reiterated its commitment to helping governments at the UN International Maritime Organization (IMO) deliver a package of proposals for reducing the global shipping industry’s CO2 em...
The government is considering a Rs 10,000-crore package for the shipping industry to help it tide over the global economic crisis, a senior government official said today. We know that the shipping industry in the country is facing difficulties. We are actively considering a package of Rs 10,000-crore to help the industry, said Shipping Joint Director-Gen...
DOF Subsea UK has entered into an agreement with Maersk FPSOs to provide construction services at Curlew Field, Block 29/7 in the North Sea. To undertake the work, DOF Subsea UK is chartering the vessel Olympic Zeus and will be installing the company’s XLX 38 Triton ROV onboard the vessel. The scope of work, includes the offshore recovery of m...
Despite declining global trade, state-run Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) has hired two medium-sized container ships for two years, taking advantage of rock-bottom ship rentals. Mint reported. India’s biggest shipping firm and only ocean carrier that runs container services for overseas trade, hired one ship at a day rate of $5,700 and the other...
Fairplay International Shipping Weekly was recognized as the best maritime publication at the Third International Maritime Video & Excellence Awards, in a gala ceremony held in Singapore, May 7. The award ceremony was the culmination of the ShipTek International Conference and Maritime Exposition in Singapore. The ShipTek event and award competition we...
A. P. Moller-Maersk will have to search for a new Chief Financial Officer as the present CFO, Soren Thorup Sørensen has announced that he will resign. “I have been stressed and overworked, lost weight and am not sleeping well at night, so therefore it was time to change my life” says Soren Thorup Sørensen to several media. Soren ...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
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