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Japanese shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has signed a long-term charter contract to operate Asia’s largest LNG bunkering vessel in Singapore. zoomImage Courtesy: Sembcorp Marine   Under the agreement with Singapore-based Pavilion Gas, a subsidiary of Pavilion Energy, the 12,000 cbm bunkering vessel would be built by Sembcorp Marine and managed by bunker barge company Sinanju Tankers. The new ship will be ...

German shipping major Hapag-Lloyd delivered a higher operating result in the 2018 due to higher transport volumes, improved freight rates and ongoing cost synergies. zoomIllustration. Image Courtesy: Pixabay under CC0 Creative Commons license   On the basis of preliminary and unaudited figures, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) rose to EUR 1,138 million, compared to EUR 1,055 million reported ...

New maritime gateway on River Thames to be operational in spring 2020 and deliver much needed port capacity, says Forth Ports Group. The Port of Tilbury has  received development consent from the UK’s Secretary of State for Transport  to build Tilbury2 – a new multi-million pound port terminal adjacent to the current site in Thurrock, on the outskirts of Greater London. Owner, ...

Honda’s announcement this week of its UK plant closure reflects a sector in crisis, with winners and losers among logistics suppliers, says Ti’s Thomas Cullen. Global automotive supply chains are set for a period of significant upheaval, creating winners and losers among the sector’s logistics suppliers, with this week’s announcement about Honda’s UK plant closure just the latest in a ...

K Line’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier Oceanic Breeze, sailing from Ichthys LNG Project in Australia, has made a maiden call to Japanese Naoetsu LNG Terminal. zoomImage Courtesy: K Line   The vessel is owned by K Line and INPEX Shipping, and dedicated for carrying 0.9 million tons of LNG per year from the Ichthys LNG Project in Darwin, Australia to ...

Oslo-listed shipowner Ocean Yield has agreed a long-term bareboat charter option for the FPSO Dhirubhai-1 with Aker Energy. zoomllustration. Image Courtesy: Pixabay under CC0 Creative Commons license   Under the agreement, Aker Energy has an option to bareboat charter the FPSO for a period of 15 years. The FPSO is intended to be used ­­­­for an early-production project offshore Ghana. Aker ...

Japan’s INPEX Corporation has hired maritime solutions provider NAPA to install its monitoring and follow-up of ship operations software on three of the company’s LNG carriers. zoomImage Courtesy: INPEX   Under the contract, two LNG carriers built to service the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project and one LNG carrier servicing the Prelude LNG Project would receive ClassNK-NAPA GREEN, to provide continuous real-time data to ...

Singapore-based MOL Chemical Tankers (MOLCT) and Dutch Den Hartogh Logistics have established a strategic alliance to jointly develop and streamline liquid chemical logistics services by using tank containers, parcel chemical tankers and a tank terminal. zoomllustration. Image Courtesy: Pixabay under CC0 Creative Commons license As strategic partners, the duo aims to offer global supply chain solutions which combine the tanker fleet and ...

State-of-the-art 1,500sqm specialist warehouse follows significant recent growth in life-sciences traffic – up 90%, YoY. The world’s largest air cargo handler, Worldwide Flight Services (WFS), is to invest in a new, state-of-the-art pharma facility at Copenhagen Airport (CPH) in response to significant recent growth in pharma traffic and “to increase its support of the CPH cargo community’s growth strategy”. WFS ...

With trade talks with China still unresolved, retailers appear to be bringing spring merchandise into the country early in case tariffs go up in March, NRF reports. Imports through the major US retail container ports have dipped since the peaks seen last autumn but remain at higher-than-usual levels as a possible increase in tariffs on goods from China approaches in ...