Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) is considering using a chemical marking system to help trace oil products smuggled out of the country, its chairman said on Wednesday. Mustafa Sanalla also called on a European Union naval mission to combat smuggl…
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Ship owners are finding it harder to secure attractive offers from recyclers of older vessels over the course of the past week, shipbrokers reported. According to the latest weekly report from Clarkson Platou Hellas, the renegotiation games have began …
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After a fast start, DNV GL continues to pick up the pace in the digital transformation of its classification services. “We started looking into machine learning as a tool for modernizing classification in 2016,” says Morten Østby, Senior Principal Cons…
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Every market would suffer if the US and China descend into a trade war, but the already weakened LPG sector will suffer more than most, prolonging the wait for a recovery. The battle over tariffs between the US and China is looking more like turning in…
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The U.S. Coast Guard said it is responding to a vessel fire near Trinidad, Calif. on Wednesday.A helicopter aircrew from Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay has deployed in response to the fire aboard commercial fishing vessel Midori off the northern…
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