Athens - Cyprus has petitioned the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to safeguard its offshore mineral rights, its president said on Thursday, upping the ante with neighbor Turkey which disputes its claims
Athens - Pirates have kidnapped 19 crew members from a crude oil tanker off Nigeria in an area where acts of piracy are on the rise
Athens - Greek authorities on Wednesday rescued the crew of a Liberia-flagged cargo vessel adrift in the Aegean Sea
Paris - Taittinger, the famous Champagne house, is looking at whether it can ship bottles overseas before possible tariffs are put in place
Aarhus (Denmark) - Denmark’s Unifeeder, part of the United Arab Emirates’s global port operator DP World, has acquired a 77% stake in The Feedertech Group, a Singapore-based feeder and shortsea operator
London - Underlying vessel operating cost inflation accelerated moderately in 2019 on higher repair & maintenance and insurance spend, says the shipping consultancy Drewry in its latest report
Copenhagen - Danish international shipping and logistics company DFDS has entered into two mutual space charter agreements with the Luxembourg based freight only ferry operator CLdN Cobelfret
Copenhagen - Maersk has decided to back the Danish startup Onomondo, a global cellular operator for the Internet of Things
Hamburg - The vast majority of ships in the German fleet will run on the new sulphur-reduced fuel from 1 January at the latest
Oslo - MPC Container Ships reported for the 9 month period ended 20 september 2019 a minus 11,435 million dollars loss, but the company foresees attractive opportunities and charter rate recovery potential in a IMO 2020 environment
Copenaghen - Danish shipping group Maersk MAERSKB.CO said on Thursday it would lay off staff at its main offices in Denmark and in other countries
Antwerp - The Port of Antwerp has signed a collaboration agreement with the Nigerian Ports Authority, which manages the 6 ports of Nigeria
Newport - Associated British Ports (ABP) has invested £2.3 million - 2.7 million euros - in a new energy efficient crane to benefit customers at the Port of Newport
Washington - The Trump administration assured U.S. banks on Wednesday that they can temporarily process U.S. dollar transactions on Chinese shipping companies it had previously sanctioned
Boston - General Electric on Monday named finance head at shipper AP Moller-Maersk as its new chief financial officer in the latest top-level change aimed at turning around the U.S. industrial conglomerate
Copenaghen - The European offshore wind industry needs an area equivalent to the size of Ireland to install enough turbines to reach carbon neutrality by 2050
Papendrecht (The Netherlands) - Dutch dredging and heavylift company Royal Boskalis Westminster has acquired the remaining 37.5% in the United Arab Emirates’s Horizon Group
Gdansk - The port of Gdansk has launched the first permanent railway connection of the Euro China Train
Copenaghen - Two weeks after the departure of Soren Toft, its former chief operating officers, Maersk loses its chief financial officer, Carolina Dybeck Happe
Hamburg - The Elbe deepening project that will dig the way for fully-loaded mega-ships to access the Port of Hamburg goes on with the building of two new underwater storage areas
Livorno - Eight months after the fire that led to the sinking of the “Grande America”, flames break out again on a Ro-Ro cargo ship from the same Italian shipowner. This time, the fire has been extinguished.
Los Angeles - The Ports of Los Angeles and Copenhagen Malmö Port have entered into a five-year memorandum of understanding to collaborate on sustainability and environmental issues
Hamburg - For Germany’s largest port, seaborne cargo handling in the first nine months of 2019 proved highly “satisfactory”
Xiamen (China) - The Volkswagen Group has held the naming ceremony for two ships that will sail with LNG
Marseille - CMA CGM has established the headquarters of its newly acquired CEVA Logistics Swiss subsidiary
Helsinki - Kalmar, part of the Finnish company Cargotec, is to supply leading Turkish equipment rental company Maktas with a total of six Kalmar Eco Reachstackers
London - Shell Marine, Royal Dutch Shell shipping division, has extended its relationship with China COSCO Shipping Company Limited businesses
London - The IMO has agreed a goal based approach to help cut emissions, but there’s still a lot to be done, says the UK Chamber of Shipping
Singapore - The technology group Wärtsilä and Singapore-based PSA Marine have agreed to collaborate in the co-creation of smart technologies for the marine sector
Copenaghen - MSC has poached rival A.P. Moller-Mærsk’s former head of operations Soren Toft to become its new chief executive officer, Danish media ShippingWatch reported on Friday, citing unidentified sources
London - Global oil demand growth is expected to slow from 2025 as fuel efficiency improves and the use of electrified vehicles increases but is unlikely to peak in the next two decades, says the IEA
Seoul - Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, South Korea’s leading shipbuilding conglomerate, has submitted an application to the European Union for approval for its takeover of local rival Daewoo Shipbuilding
London - The UK Chamber of Shipping pushes the argument that “slow shipping is not the answer to cutting emissions,” because if ships are forced to slow down, “we may need more vessels to transport the goods we need”
Athens - China and Greece agreed to push ahead with a 600 million euros investment by COSCO Shipping into Greece’s largest port, Piraeus
Kuala Lumpur - Belgian tanker operator Euronav signed a service agreement making Malaysia’s Linggi Port its supply base providing low-sulphur marine fuels
Copenaghen - Denmark’s Maersk said on Monday its Chief Operating Officer Soren Toft has decided to leave the company after two years at management level at the shipping group
Singapore - Singapore is pushing the shipping industry to use cleaner fuels such as liquefied natural gas
Hamburg - United Heavy Lift and Ocean7 Projects are opening a joint office in Bergen, Norway
Arendal (Norway) - Gard, the second in the marine insurance industry behind Allianz, has announced a steady performance in the first half of 2009
Hamburg - Following the acquisition by the Zeaborn Group, CPO Tankers has been renamed Zeaborn Ship Management Tanker GmbH & Cie. KG
Helsinki - Despite the slowdown in Finnish economic growth, Finnlines is on the way to successfully ending the year. The result after three quarters is higher than in the previous yea
Stockholm - At the Värtahamnen Port, in Stockholm, are the most modern, and in wattage-terms the largest, in the Baltic Sea area have come into operation
ome - Pirates attacked a Greek oil tanker off the coast of Togo on Monday and fled after taking four crew members as hostages
Milan - Even more than within other sectors, across the maritime domain’s evolving landscape of real-time connectivity requirements
Hamburg - Members of a delegation from the Russian compan y Rosatom have met with Ingo Egloff, Joint CEO of Port of Hamburg, to discuss the use of the Northern Sea Route
Singapore - Executives at some of the world’s top shipping groups are advocating a levy on carbon emissions on shipping in an effort to shape tightening rules on greenhouse gas emissions.
Singapore - Immediate action is required if the global shipping industry is to meet a target of halving its carbon emissions by the middle of the century
Brussels - The European Community Shipowners’s Association has published its new strategic priorities for 2019-2024
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Antwerp - Port of Antwerp inaugurated a new energy technology that generates eco-friendly heat from concentrated sunlight to be used by industrial companies