After several successive years of strong growth, owners and managers in the offshore supply vessel (OSV) segment are looking at 2015 with some trepidation. The recent oil price slide has focused…
With both demand and prices for iron ore falling, people are starting to ask why the big mining firms are still ramping up production, writes IHS Maritime’s Zoe Reynolds.
Availability of shale gas, combined with new maritime sulphur-emission regulations, is making liquefied natural gas a potential fuel option for ship operators. IHS Maritime’s principal analyst and member of the Maritime & Trade Thought Leadership Council, Krispen Atkinson, reports.
