“Over the last five weeks (week 29-33) global grain shipments have fallen 8% y/y, fuelled by a 26% y/y drop in grain exports from the Black Sea as Russian and Ukrainian attacks on ships and port infrastructure have intensified. A recent proposal by Ukraine to halt attacks on shipping in the Black Sea has been …
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At a Glance • Compliance managers touch four of the five stages of the marine insurance coverage process, from underwriting through ongoing monitoring, claims support, and renewal. • The operating environment has changed structurally in 2026, with GPS jamming compromising AIS reliability, sanctions activity outpacing screening tools, and false flag operations growing to include Syria …
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The Rhenus Group and the leading global emissions intelligence platform shipzero today announced a strategic partnership. Under the agreement, Rhenus customers gain access to a Book and Claim solution designed to reduce the climate impact of global transport, covering alternative fuels and battery-electric vehicles across air, ocean and road transport. As a multimodal logistics service …
MR2 demand holds steady, LR2 at dataset lows Comparing post-conflict (March 2026) CPP tonne-miles against an uneventful 2019 baseline, the demand picture looks healthy for MR2s. Larger vessels have not fared as well, posting consecutive losses and a dataset low (-35% from 2025 average level) every month from April to August. This is mostly unsurprising, …
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ClassNK has joined a joint project to objectively verify reductions in fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions achieved in actual vessel operations through the use of an AI-based autonomous navigation system. The project aims to verify the effectiveness of AI-based voyage optimization in reducing fuel consumption and GHG emissions under real operating conditions and …
Switzerland-based offshore drilling contractor Transocean has won a new long-term assignment for a 2010-built ultra-deepwater drillship with India’s government-owned energy giant Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC). The post Transocean’s 16-year-old drillship lands $300M job with India’s ONGC appeared first on Offshore Energy.
Norway’s oil and gas player DNO is exiting Côte d’Ivoire by divesting its business in the West African country to Panoro Energy, raking in an estimated 24% annualized return on its investment while handing its Norwegian peer a gas-weighted production base that will boost output by about 23% and deepen its presence in the region’s …
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El aumento de la temperatura reduce el margen de supervivencia de las larvas de esta especie emblemática que nacen en el Mar Balear. Un equipo multidisciplinar internacional ha publicado un nuevo estudio que revela que las larvas de atún rojo atlántico (Thunnus thynnus) sobreviven dentro de un estrecho rango de temperaturas, lo que las convierte …
Norwegian ocean services provider DeepOcean has completed subsea tie-in work using diverless technology for an oil and gas development tied back to an existing floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel in the UK sector of the North Sea. The post DeepOcean deploys robotics for diverless subsea tie-in at North Sea oil & gas development …
Poland’s Orlen has secured up to a quarter of its crude needs through a new deal with Norway’s state-owned energy giant Equinor, which expands the duo’s strategic energy ties while ensuring the Polish player’s long-term access to Norwegian oil and strengthening European energy cooperation and security of supply. The post Poland’s Orlen locks in Norwegian …
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