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Chrome ore has emerged as the fastest-growing dry bulk commodity trade of 2026, as the collapse of South Africa’s ferrochrome smelting industry pushes greater volumes of unprocessed ore onto ships bound principally for Asia. Chrome ore is used primarily to make ferrochrome, an alloy of chromium and iron. Ferrochrome is then added to steel to …
https://splash247.com/chrome-ore-emerges-as-dry-bulks-biggest-grower-in-2026/
https://splash247.com/chrome-ore-emerges-as-dry-bulks-biggest-grower-in-2026/Russia and Ukraine have traded some of the heaviest blows against each other’s maritime infrastructure of the four-and-a-half-year war, pushing the Black Sea’s grain trade deeper into the firing line. Russia struck the area around Izmail, Ukraine’s largest Danube port, overnight Thursday, damaging port infrastructure and starting a fire. The attack came barely 24 hours …
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https://splash247.com/black-sea-grain-trade-buckles-under-maritime-war/Rolls-Royce is expanding its partnership with Marand Precision Engineering into a new export venture, supplying naval gas turbine propulsion packages to the Type 26 Global Combat Ship program.Alongside this, Rolls-Royce has opened a new regional defense headquarters in Canberra…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/rollsroyce-establishes-regional-defense-542060
https://www.marinelink.com/news/rollsroyce-establishes-regional-defense-542060The Secretary-General of the IMO, Arsenio Dominguez, has issued a statement following the death of seafarers on the Tihamah which was hit by a projectile off the coast of Al Mokha, Yemen.“It is with sadness and regret to know that, once again…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/imo-issues-statement-seafarer-deaths-542061
https://www.marinelink.com/news/imo-issues-statement-seafarer-deaths-542061AURELIA has welcomed Silas Cooper, Honorary Consul of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, to its Amsterdam office for a working visit dedicated to the future of inter-island connectivity in The Bahamas.The meeting…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/aurelia-introduces-zeroemission-vessel-542062
https://www.marinelink.com/news/aurelia-introduces-zeroemission-vessel-542062Ports engineer Bryan Jones has been named HDR’s marine terminals leader.Based in Savannah, Georgia, Jones guides the firm’s growing marine terminals practice worldwide, working with port authorities and terminal operators to address evolving operational demands…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/bryan-jones-named-hdr-marine-terminals-542063
https://www.marinelink.com/news/bryan-jones-named-hdr-marine-terminals-542063The Canadian Coast Guard has remembered the 40th anniversary of the rescue of 155 Tamil refugees off the coast of Newfoundland.On August 11, 1986, Captain Gus Dalton and fellow fishermen found two lifeboats carrying 155 people fleeing violence and war in Sri Lanka near St. Shotts.
https://www.marinelink.com/news/canadian-coast-guard-remembers-refugee-542065
https://www.marinelink.com/news/canadian-coast-guard-remembers-refugee-542065Skarv Shipping Solutions has marked two milestones in China: the delivery of Peak Skarv 3 and the first steel cut for hull 247, its new ammonia-fueled vessel.The ammonia-fuelled vessel will carry timber for Viken AT Market and be commercially operated by Arriva Shipping.A 160 m³ ammonia tank…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/first-steel-cut-skarvs-ammoniafueled-542067
https://www.marinelink.com/news/first-steel-cut-skarvs-ammoniafueled-542067Axpo and Vitol have completed the first LNG bunkering operation at the Port of Civitavecchia in Italy, refueling the flagship vessel of an international cruise line.Green Pearl, a 7,500 m³ Italian bunkering vessel operated by Axpo, conducted…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/cruise-ship-first-bunker-lng-542068
https://www.marinelink.com/news/cruise-ship-first-bunker-lng-542068Just how much crude oil is leaving the Strait of Hormuz?U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright claims almost nine million barrels per day, but the companies that track vessel movements say at best it is about half this volume.The amount of crude leaving the Middle East via the narrow chokepoint matters…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/us-says-oil-leaving-middle-east-really-542074
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