Each year, the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) reviews a summary report that the IMO Secretariat prepares from verified data submitted by shipowners for the previous reporting year. The report covering 2025 data will be considered during the upcoming MEPC 85, scheduled for 30 November to 3 December 2026. The session will also be critical …

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Gulf oil producers have gained control of a fleet of nearly 230 tankers that have defied Iran to ship oil through the Strait of Hormuz and keep the chokepoint open to global trade. The giant fleet is owned, managed, chartered or controlled by Gulf national oil companies or their trading and shipping arms and is …

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Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. and Deutsche ReGas announced that they have entered into a long-term Time Charter Contract with Deutsche ReGas for the deployment of one FSRU at the Energie-Terminal “Deutsche Ostsee” in Mukran, Germany. Under this long-term arrangement, the LNG carrier will be converted at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co., Ltd.(“HZ”) in China and Deutsche …

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GeoMarineHub, the Dubai-based ship-supply marketplace, today opened two changes to how vessels buy stores and how buyers check suppliers. Email the requisition as it is. Masters, chief engineers and purchasing officers can now forward a requisition to supply@geomarinehub.com in the form it already has: an Excel sheet, a Word table, a PDF or a scanned …

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