Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Junichiro Ikeda) yesterday announced commercialization of the Total Residual Oxidants (TRO) instrument “S.sensing®WS,” one of the major components of the Ballast Water Management System (BWMS), developed by Kurita Water Industries Ltd. (President:

Marine bunker suppliers should anticipate that there may no longer be significant demand for fossil fuels from shipping within as little as 25 years, if not sooner, and that the sector is now on an inevitable trajectory towards a future

Indian offshore fields used to be the main source of the natural gas consumed in India’s rapidly growing, energy-hungry economy; now however, it is LNG imports. This recent change is largely due to a decline in the country’s offshore gas

Every morning at the BunkerEx headquarters, our entire team gets together to brainstorm innovative ways for technology to make bunker buying faster and cheaper for our clients. But bunkering is an art as well as a science, often relying on

Yesterday’s call by MEPs to ban the use of heavy fuel oil (HFO) in the Arctic and put in place greenhouse gas reduction measures by 2023 must be followed through with speedy action by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), said

All of ExxonMobil’s marine fuels now meet the new ISO 8217:2017 specifications, helping guarantee peace of mind for vessel operators and on-board engineers.

The newly published sixth edition of the specifications updates the 2012 version (ISO 8217:2012). A number of revisions

Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (head office: Tokyo; president: Tadaaki Naito; NYK), MTI Co., Ltd. (an NYK Group company; head office: Tokyo; president: Yasuo Tanaka; MTI), and Japan Engine Corporation (head office: Hyogo; president: Michio Shimizu; J-ENG) have seen progress in

The smart technology group Wärtsilä is at the forefront of harnessing the changes taking place in the shipping industry to deliver value and optimisation for its customers. By orchestrating these developments through the use of high levels of connectivity and

Addressing government trade negotiators in the OECD Working Party on Shipbuilding at a workshop on ‘green growth’ in Paris today, the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) asserted that the shipping industry could only be environmentally sustainable if it is economically

The introduction of invasive aquatic species to new environments is a major threat to ocean biodiversity, and can result in important impacts on infrastructure and livelihoods.

The spread of invasive species is mainly associated with shipping, aquaculture, offshore structures and marine