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France is rallying support for a global carbon tax on the shipping industry ahead of a summit hosted by President Emmanuel Macron later this month. Macron is understood to be searching for allies to issue a joint demand on members of the International Maritime Organisation to agree on such a charge at the organisation’s upcoming summit …
https://splash247.com/macron-seeks-to-form-carbon-levy-coalition-ahead-of-mepc-80/
https://splash247.com/macron-seeks-to-form-carbon-levy-coalition-ahead-of-mepc-80/HMM, South Korea’s flagship carrier, has made a bid to reenter the gas trades, tabling KWN300bn ($233m) to take over its old company, Hyundai LNG Shipping. HMM has been keen to diversify its earnings base and with the local private equity owners of Hyundai LNG Shipping putting the company for sale, the cash-rich liner has …
https://splash247.com/hmm-makes-233m-bid-to-buy-back-hyundai-lng-shipping/
https://splash247.com/hmm-makes-233m-bid-to-buy-back-hyundai-lng-shipping/President Joe Biden has acted, dispatching his labour secretary to California in a bid to thrash out a pay deal between employers and dockworkers amid an escalating ports crisis along the west coast of North America. Sporadic walk-outs over the past 11 days have damaged productivity at many terminals in the US after unions, exasperated …
https://splash247.com/biden-acts-to-resolve-us-west-coast-port-disruptions/
https://splash247.com/biden-acts-to-resolve-us-west-coast-port-disruptions/UK’s total pipeline of offshore wind projects now stands at nearly 100 GW according to new research published by RenewableUK. Data from the industry trade association’s EnergyPulse market intelligence showed a project pipeline of 97,944 MW, up from 91,287MW a year ago. This adds to the global pipeline which topped 1.23 TW, an increase of …
https://splash247.com/uk-offshore-wind-pipeline-approaches-100-gw-mark/
https://splash247.com/uk-offshore-wind-pipeline-approaches-100-gw-mark/Some 42 months after the global sulphur cap became law, researchers continue to uncover the enormous damage scrubbers are doing to the world’s oceans. A new study from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden focusing on four ports calculated that water discharged from scrubbers accounted for more than 90% of the contaminants found in water …
https://splash247.com/swedish-scrubber-discharge-study-makes-case-for-stricter-regulations/
https://splash247.com/swedish-scrubber-discharge-study-makes-case-for-stricter-regulations/George Procopiou’s Dynacom has been hard at work putting its strong tanker earnings to good use, with both dry bulk and tanker newbuilds contracted in China. According to shipbroker Allied, Dynacom has signed for a pair of very large crude carriers (VLCs) at New Times Shipbuilding and eight 85,000 dwt bulkers at CSSC-affiliated Huangpu Wenchong …
https://splash247.com/procopious-dynacom-expands-orderbook-with-vlccs-and-bulk-carriers-in-china/
https://splash247.com/procopious-dynacom-expands-orderbook-with-vlccs-and-bulk-carriers-in-china/Dutch shipowner Vroon has completed its financial restructuring and will move forward with new management in place. Starting June 15, Martijn Schouten will join Vroon as the new chief executive officer. Schouten has held various international board, commercial and mergers and acquisitions roles at IHC. After leaving IHC in 2016, he became the CEO of …
https://splash247.com/martijn-schouten-takes-helm-of-restructured-vroon/
https://splash247.com/martijn-schouten-takes-helm-of-restructured-vroon/US agribusiness Bunge has agreed to merge with Glencore-backed Viterra in an $8.2bn stock and cash transaction.
https://splash247.com/agribusiness-giants-to-merge-in-18bn-deal/
https://splash247.com/agribusiness-giants-to-merge-in-18bn-deal/Despite a steady increase in port state control detention rates following the pandemic in all regions, INTERCARGO-entered vessels consistently outdid industry performance indicators in both deficiencies and detentions, as shown by the latest…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/intercargo-members-perform-deficiencies-505767
https://www.marinelink.com/news/intercargo-members-perform-deficiencies-505767Offshore energy support vessel operator Seacat Services has partnered up with marine engineering firm Mainstay Marine Solutions, to build the 20th vessel in its fleet, and the fifth Seacat Chartwell Ambitious design.The partnership comes amidst ongoing complexities in the UK shipbuilding market…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/mainstay-marine-build-crew-transfer-505775
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