Libya’s National Oil Corp (NOC) said arson caused a fire next to a station on Libya’s Wafa-Mellitah gas pipeline that was extinguished on Thursday without causing significant damage. The NOC said in a statement the arson was carried out with…
Photo: SMM The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has announced its targets of cutting greenhouse gas emissions from global shipping in half by the year 2050, and to make ships entirely CO2-neutral before 2100. But long before that, the so-called sulphur…
Ungureanu Catalina Oana / Shutterstock Kenya plans to revive a state-owned shipping line with the help of the Mediterranean Shipping Co., President Uhuru Kenyatta said. The Kenya National Shipping Line, which was established in 1987 and stagnated after years of…
The Tema Chamber of Commerce has held its 3rd Bi Monthly Meeting to discuss the re-introduction of the Cargo Tracking Notes (CTN) and ways to surmount challenges confronting the modern entrepreneur. The Tema Chamber of Commerce uses its Bi-Monthly Meetings…
The South African Maritime Safety Authority has issued an urgent warning to vessels east of South Africa to be on the lookout for cargo containers that reportedly fell from a containership off the coast of Durban a week ago. According…
A containership operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has reportedly lost a number of containers while sailing between Port Elizabeth and Durban, South Africa. As informed, a total of thirteen containers fell off the 9,411 TEU boxship MSC Chloe while…
A smoldering fire erupted in a consignment of 5,000 tonnes of nickel oxide in a warehouse at the Port of Antwerp on August 11, causing the port authority to evacuate seagoing vessels in the vicinity. The fire broke out on…
The Chinese Transport Ministry is seeking feedback from the country’s key maritime and shipping players on the advancement of the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as marine fuel. The ministry addressed the letter seeking comments to shipping companies, port…
Swiss company SolarImpact Yacht AG has announced plans to debut its new project. What is believed to be the world’s first ocean-going solar superyacht, which has been in the research phase for five years, is now ready to be unveiled…
Ghana and Cote d’ Ivoire on Thursday started a two-day consultative meeting in Accra to deliberate on outstanding issues holding up the implementation of the ruling by the Special Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS)…