The China Ningbo Containerized Freight Index (NCFI), a wind vane of China’s busiest port’s freight rates for the international container shipping market, stood at 3,652.1 points, up 2.4 percent compared with last week. The NCFI is issued weekly by the Ningbo Shipping Exchange, located in the Ningbo-Zhoushan port in east China’s Zhejiang Province. The index …
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Identifying the location of the outbreak of a fire onboard a large container ship can be “almost impossible” as it could be in any one of many thousand boxes located either “high up in a stack or buried deep onboard”. With fire onboard happening around every 10 days, Danny Harwood, Deputy Chief Inspector of Marine …
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A newcomer in the wave energy sector, founded only a year ago with a name that pretty much speaks for itself – Dutch Wave Power – is preparing to launch its scaled wave energy prototype device for real sea trials offshore The Hague in the Netherlands. Premium content You are currently not logged into your …
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The Shell-led LNG Canada project in Kitimat Harbour is progressing through the “going vertical” stage. Courtesy of LNG Canada Three large pieces of equipment weighing nearly 1,000 tonnes have arrived in Kitimat. The equipment is critical to the gas liquefaction process. This embedded content is only visible after accepting cookies. Change your preferences [embedded content] …
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Two of Keppel Offshore and Marine Limited’s wholly-owned subsidiaries have received a request for arbitration from an unnamed company for two FPSO contracts. Singapore’s conglomerate Keppel Corporation said in an SGX filing that the contracts in question were engineering, procurement, and construction contracts relating to floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) units. According to the …
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Helix Energy Solutions’ Board of Directors has appointed T. Mitch Little as a new director. Little will serve as a Class I director whose term will expire at Helix’s next annual meeting of shareholders. According to Helix, Little has over 30 years of experience in the petroleum industry in various technical, supervisory and senior management positions. The …
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El presidente de la Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia ha destacado el dinamismo de las empresas que ha propiciado “el aumento del 14,78% de los contenedores de exportación en el primer semestre del año respecto al mismo periodo de 2019” El presidente de la Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV), Aurelio Martínez, ha destacado el papel que …
Russia plans on building LNG-powered icebreakers to serve the Arctic Sea route. Illustration only; Sovcomflot’s arctic LNG tanker Christophe de Margerie; Courtesy of Sovcomflot Reuters reports that top executives announced the news last week. The government has appointed Rosatom, Russia’s atomic energy corporation, as the state operator of the Northern Sea Route. Director general of …
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El espacio acogerá BNEW Mobility, una de las novedades de la segunda edición de la Barcelona New Economy Week (BNEW), que busca posicionar a Barcelona como un actor clave en la reactivación económica. CASA SEAT ya colaboró en 2020 con esta cita de referencia acogiendo la vertical de Economic Zones y con un completo programa …
