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Singapore Extends Compulsory Use of Flow Meters to Distillate Barges

Apr 27, 2018

Singapore will extend the mandatory use of mass-flow-meters to bunker barges delivering distillate fuels to large ships, the port authority said on Friday, ahead of an expected pick-up in the use of distillates to meet caps on sulfur content…

Japan: An LNG Bunkering Hub?

Apr 26, 2018

New study examines Japanese government strategy for creating infrastructure for environmentally-friendly ship fuel.A new report by the Intrernational Transport Forum at the OECD assesses Japan’s ambition to become an international bunkering hub for liquefied natural gas (LNG)…

New App Helps Ship Owners Comply with Fuel Regs

Apr 25, 2018

Bureau Veritas has introduced the first phase of My Fuel Consumption, a cloud-based and secure web application for desktop, mobile and tablet that aims to make compliance easy, with a digitized process throughout the various steps of IMO-DCS…

Singapore's Bunker Market Rallies

Apr 25, 2018

The Singapore fuel oil market has rallied this week as inventories have dropped at the same time that some supplies in the region do not meet the standards for use as shipping fuel, further reducing the amount of supply available, five trade sources said…

ExxonMobil Rolls Out New Hydraulic Oils

Apr 23, 2018

ExxonMobil said its new Mobil SHC Aware HS (Hydraulic System) Series hydraulic oils are specially formulated to offer excellent protection, even in marine operating environments. The oils meet the U.S. Vessel General Permit (VGP) requirements for Environmentally Acceptable Lubricants…

Panama Canal LNG Volume Soars as Global Demand Grows

Apr 20, 2018

The Panama Canal may carry five times as much liquefied natural gas (LNG) in 2020 as it did last year as production of the fuel expands in the United States and Asian import demand rises, the head of the canal's governing agency told Reuters…

Grindrod Sells Off Bunker Division

Apr 18, 2018

South African ship owner Grindrod has sold its bunker division, Unicorn Bunker Services (Pty) Ltd., for an undisclosed sum to new co-owners WOESA (Women in Oil and Energy South Africa) and Linsen Nambi.Financed through the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC)…

2020 Low-sulfur Rule to Trigger Huge Disruptions -IEA

Apr 18, 2018

The shipping industry and oil refineries are not doing enough to prepare for new rules cutting the amount of sulfur that vessels can emit from 2020, according to the head of the International Energy Agency's (IEA) oil industry and market division…

Papageorgiou Named CFO of Aegean Marine Petroleum Network

Apr 17, 2018

Aegean Marine Petroleum Network (AMPNI) said that Pavlos Papageorgiou has been appointed Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately.  Papageorgiou succeeds Spyros Gianniotis, who will continue to act as an independent consultant to the…

Thompson takes over from Founder Heavey, Tullow Oil

Apr 17, 2018

Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announced the appointment of Dorothy Thompson as independent non-executive Director and Chair-designate of Tullow with effect from the conclusion of the Group’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 25 April 2018. It is anticipated Thompson will succeed Aidan Heavey…

Sempra Energy to Build Liquid Fuel Terminal in Mexico

Apr 13, 2018

Sempra Energy announced that its Mexican subsidiary, Infraestructura Energética Nova, S.A.B. de C.V. (IEnova), plans to develop, build and operate a receipt, storage and send-out liquid fuels marine terminal at the La Jovita Energy Hub in Ensenada…

Hapag-Lloyd to Unveil Plan for 2020 Fuel Regs in 2018

Mar 28, 2018

German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd plans to give details within three to six months on compliance with tighter shipping fuel regulations that will kick in from 2020, its chief executive Rolf Habben Jansen said on Wednesday. The International…

Cloud MRV Collects Data for IMO-DCS Regulation

Mar 27, 2018

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has introduced a mandatory Data Collection System (DCS) for international shipping, which requires ships above 5,000 gross tonnage to start collecting and reporting fuel consumption and CO2 data to an IMO database from 2019…

Dan-Bunkering Promotes Two Bunker Traders

Mar 19, 2018

Dan-Bunkering has announced the promotion of Bunker Traders Rali Bara and Lamin Bara in its Dubai office as of March 1, 2018.  Rali Bara, who joined the Dubai office in 2013 was promoted to Bunker Trader & Team Leader and has during his…

BMT Upgrades Critical Monitoring Systems for Termap

Mar 15, 2018

BMT has completed an upgrade of Single Point Mooring (SPM) Telemetry and Control Systems (SPM-TCS) for Terminales Marítimas Patagónicas S.A. (Termap).  The systems play an integral role in providing real time operational and environmental data…

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