The sale of Sam (formerly Zoya 1), an almost 25-year-old 300,500 DWT crude oil tanker, marks the end of the fourth longest streak of zero VLCC demolitions in history, this time lasting 512 days. The last VLCC to be demolished was the 300,361 DWT “Watba…
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This time a year ago the market was talking about the upcoming IMO2020 sulphur regulations change. The operators of the non-scrubber tonnage were in the process of putting together the switch-over plans from HSFO to VLSFO and starting to purchase the c…
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BW LPG’s BW Gemini is the first of 12 vessels to get retrofitted with dual-fuel propulsion engines in China. On 4 November 2020, the vessel received class certification and embarked on a historic Transpacific voyage with LPG as its primary fuel. In ord…
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As governments come together at the UN International Maritime Organization (IMO) to consider important next steps to decarbonise maritime transport, the global shipping industry urgently calls on them to take forward its proposal for an industry-financ…
“ COVID-19 has turned the world upside down,” states Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, “the way we work, the way we communicate and the way we live. Who could have imagined the transformation in store just seven or eight short months ago?” “A line has been drawn in…
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