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REGULATORY WATCH: The Global 0.50% Sulfur Cap: 30 months and counting down …
Industry frets about the coming deadline. Shipping desperately wants to be ready, but will global shore-based infrastructure and refining capacity match the demand that is sure to come? And … are regulators
OP/ED: How Growth Can Benefit the Environment
You might call 2017 a banner year for California ports. San Pedro Bay, home to the nation's leading twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach exceeded their pre-recession peaks. Collectively, San Pedro Bay was up 7.
Driving Efficiently Towards Zero Emissions
As the Port of Long Beach Starts Year-long Freight and electric vehicle (EV) testing, Kalmar’s newest workhorse – the Kalmar Ottawa Electric terminal tractor, T2E – will be doing some of the heavy lifting.
Shipbuilding
Teekay Gets $450mln for Shuttle Tanker Fleet
The midstream services provider to the offshore oil production industry Teekay Offshore Partners
Columbia Class Subs Take Shape in Virginia
A plasma-burning machine cut the first steel plate that will be used to build Columbia (SSBN 826)
Shipowners See Increase in IMO-Compliant Fuels, But Doubts Persist
Shipowners, who are facing one of the biggest changes in the oil industry in decades, are seeing more fuels that will be compliant with new rules on sulphur emissions from ships
Contracts
Japanese LNG Carriers Pact with Wärtsilä
Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has signed long-term service agreements for four Japanese-owned
Teekay Offshore Renews and Expands VSAT
Teekay Offshore, one of the largest marine energy transportation, storage & production companies
Griffon Hoverwork Wins New Orders
Southampton, UK-based hovercraft builder Griffon Hoverwork has won two new orders for its latest
Technology
CMA CGM Orders 50,000 Traxens Trackers
French liner carrier CMA CGM has announced a new order for 50,000 Traxens trackers
Heerema Unveils World's Largest Offshore Crane Vessel
Dutch firm Heerema Marine Contractors and Singapore's Sembcorp Marine, on Thursday
Svitzer Trials New Line Handling Tech
Svitzer has begun sea trials of a new ‘industry-first’ remotely operated line catching technology
Legal
Pacific Radiance Wins Case Against Chinese Yard
Singapore-based offshore vessel operator Pacific Radiance has won an arbitration award against a
Improper Crane Use Caused Crew Death -USCG
Inadequate training and improper shoreside crane operations were found to be the cause of a fatal accident earlier this year in the US Coast Guard buoy yard in Homer, Alaska.
Golar Spins Off TFDE LNG Biz
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipper Golar announced that it has decided to proceed with a spin-off
People & Company News
MOL to Join TCFD Consortium
Japanese shipping giant Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) announced that it will participate in the Task
GSL Acquires Three Boxships
Marshall Islands-incorporated Global Ship Lease (GSL) announced that it has agreed to acquire
PSA, PFR, IFM Jointly Acquire DCT GDAŃSK
PSA International Ptd Ltd (PSA), the Polish Development Fund (PFR) and the IFM Global