DNV’s Maritime Academy HazMat Lite course – Live Virtual Classroom DNV’s Maritime Academy Hellas is offering on 6 and 7 July 2021, a 2-day HazMat Lite course. Attached please find the course description. Course: HazMat Lite course…
Spain accedes to ship recycling convention Spain is the latest country to accede to IMO’s treaty for safe and environmentally-sound ship recycling – the Hong Kong Convention. The Convention covers…
Crowley Becomes First U.S. Ship Operator to Join the Ship Recycling Transparency Initiative (JACKSONVILLE, Fla.; June 7, 2021) – Crowley Maritime Corporation has become the first U.S.-owned and 13th overall ship owner-operator that…
Pakistani workers poisoned during scrapping of infamous mercury-laden tanker The Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) tanker J. NAT has been beached on the shipbreaking shores of Gadani, Pakistan despite clear…
Best Practice in Ship Recycling – NEW!! – Live Virtual Classroom DNV’s Maritime Academy Hellas is offering on 8 and 9 June 2021 (10:00 – 14:00), a course on Ship Recycling. Acting responsibly from a…
VesselsValue Celebrates 10 Year Milestone. Leading online valuation and data provider, VesselsValue, turns 10 today. Having grown from a just handful of people when the company launched in 2011, they…
BIMCO: Oil product tanker demolition on track to break 11-year record In the first four months of 2021, the amount of oil product tanker capacity that has been sent for…
Parliamentary event on: “EU Ship Recycling Rules: carrot, stick or illusion?” On May 5, MEP Jens Gieseke (Transport committee/EPP) and MEP Søren Gade (Chair of EP India Delegation/Renew) co-hosted an event…
Wavespec Announces Successful Management Buyout Wavespec, as the last technical entity within Braemar Shipping Services Plc, is pleased to announce that it is now under new ownership as a private…
NGOs call upon authorities to sanction illegal exports of cruises The cruise sector has been severely hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, with many ship owners forced to file bankruptcy or…
2021 crude oil tanker demolition stalls as second-hand prices win The year 2021 has been tough on crude oil tanker freight rates across the board so far. Consequently, the industry…
Indian Register of Shipping (IRClass) highlights safety as key to doubling ship recycling capacity in Alang Indian Register of Shipping (IRClass), an international ship classification society, underlines high safety standards…
CORRECTION UPDATE – Platform publishes list of ships dismantled worldwide in 2020 UPDATE 10 February 2021 Teekay Corporation informed us that five ships (i.e. Aegean Leader, Petrojarl Cidade de Rio…
Platform publishes list of ships dismantled worldwide in 2020 The shipping industry continues to exploit workers and the environment for profit According to new data released today by the NGO…
NGO Shipbreaking Platform publishes South Asia Quarterly Update #24 In this quarterly publication, the NGO Shipbreaking Platform informs about the shipbreaking industry in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Providing an overview…
CSM Energy extends service offering with integral service platform Ambitious plans to expand CSM Energy into a one-stop shop solution for ship owners, investors and operators in the energy sector,…
BIMCO: EU ship recycling regime improved, but gaps remain An updated Report on the European list of ship recycling facilities, commissioned by BIMCO, shows progress in increasing the number of…
Protecting watchdogs across the EU: proposal for an EU anti-SLAPP law A coalition of non-governmental organisations from across Europe has been working over the past years to raise awareness and…
Market survives with minor rise amid Geopolitical Chaos and Coronavirus “challenged…” The BDI clinched 11 points and now stands at 1,230 points which is also 82 points plus since last…
BIMCO’s Shipping Number of the Week Sale of 25-year-old VLCC ends 512 days demolition draught The sale of Sam (formerly Zoya 1), an almost 25-year-old 300,500 DWT crude oil tanker,…
Platform publishes South Asia Quarterly Update #23 There were a total of 170 ships broken in the third quarter of 2020. Of these, 110 ships were sold to the beaches…
Prosecutor launches investigation after Icelandic journalists shed light on illegal export of toxic ships to India Cash buyer GMS once again under the spotlight Icelandic program Kveikur released yesterday an…
NGOs call EU’s intent to export toxic ships to developing countries illegal and contrary to aims of Green Deal Brussels, 23 September 2020 – The Basel Action Network (BAN), the European…
Verifavia launches industry’s first “3-way plug & play” dashboard to ensure efficient IHM maintenance procedures New technology platform supports compliance with EU SRR 31 December 2020 legislative deadline and ongoing…
VesselsValue partners with Concirrus to provide clients with improved underwriting capabilities. VesselsValue, an online valuation and data provider announces a new data partnership with leading InsurTech, Concirrus. This partnership will…