The IMO has been closely monitoring the incident involving the MV Ever Given, which ran aground in the Suez Canal on 23 March 2021. IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim said: “I offer my encouragement to the Egyptian Authorities, as well as the salvors, tug and dredger operators and all other parties, who are working tirelessly to …
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Uncertainty around the reopening of the Suez Canal is continuing to disrupt the supply trade routes for commodities, more than 72 hours after the container ship Ever Given ran aground in the key waterway. The backlog of global shipping traffic caused by the closure of one of the world’s key commodity chokepoints is now expected …
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A stuck container vessel in the Suez Canal, which has blocked the flow of goods through the narrow channel, will add strain to global supply chains already stretched by rebounding economic activity and tight shipping container supplies, analysts said on Friday. The 400-metres long Ever Given container vessel has been stuck in the canal since …
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China Tianjin Shipping Index (TSI), an indicator of northern China’s ocean freight rates for both international and domestic shipping markets, stood at 1254.45 points on Thursday, down 0.71 percent compared with the previous working day. The statistical samples of TSI cover 27 international shipping routes from the ports of Tianjin, Qingdao and Caofeidian, and major …
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Impulsado por los panamax, que marcaron el récord desde 2010, y los capesize El Baltic Dry Index (BDI), principal índice del mercado internacional de fletes de carga seca, cerró el pasado 17 de marzo en 2.105 puntos, gracias al comportamiento de los mercados de los buques de mayor tamaño: capesize y panamax. El BDI alcanza …
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Malaysian offshore drilling contractor Velesto Drilling has received a letter of award from ConocoPhillips for the provision of jack-up rig services. The contract is for a jack-up rig named NAGA 7 with an estimated contract value of $8 million, Velesto said in a Bursa Malaysia filing on Friday. Under the contract, the NAGA 7 jack-up …
The University of Plymouth has won a bid to hold the European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC) at its premises in September 2021. A port city of Plymouth (Courtesy of the University of Plymouth) The biennial event was first held in 1993 and provides a forum for the leading figures from the offshore renewable …
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Oil and gas company Energean is getting financial aid in the amount of $118 million due to losses suffered during last year’s oil price collapse in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak. The European Commission said earlier this week it had approved two Greek measures, expected to mobilise a total of €100 million (about $118 …
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The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has announced it will start accepting applications for the 2022 Marine Energy Collegiate Competition (MECC) on 5 April 2021. Illustration (Courtesy of Curtis Rusch; U.S. Department of Energy) Managed by NREL on behalf of U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO), the competition encourages undergraduate and graduate …
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