Shipping

Grindrod Shipping Holdings Ltd. has sold four bulk carrier vessels including the IVS Hayakita, the IVS Bosch Hoek, the IVS Merlion, and the IVS Raffles.

Kale Logistics Solutions has published a readiness survey of 200 ports that revealed 30%t are not prepared to adopt the International Maritime Organization (IMO)’s Maritime Single Window (MSW) mandate, which becomes compulsory worldwide from 01 January 2024.

Berge Olympus, a Newcastlemax bulker, is equipped with four BARTech WindWings by Yara Marine Technologies that use wind power to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.

The vessel was named 'Shoyo' in a naming ceremony held at the Koyagi Shipyard of Oshima Shipyard Co., Ltd., and began operations after completing the first bunkering.

The German shipping company will equip their entire fleet of VLOCs and Newcastlemaxes with Yara Marine Technologies’ propulsion optimisation technology.

The newbuild vessels are designed to meet the requirements of Energy Efficiency Design Index related to Green House Gas, GHG emissions, ‘EEDI, Phase 3’ and to comply with the NOx emissions regulation, NOx-Tier III.

Upon completion of the aforementioned sale, Diana Shipping Inc.’s fleet will consist of 40 dry bulk vessels.

The contract signing ceremony took place in the beginning of September 2023, bringing together key representatives from both parties, including Mrs. Thecla Bodewes, CEO of Thecla Bodewes Shipyards and Mrs. Helen Tveitan, CEO of Carisbrooke Shipping.

The bulk carrier will be methanol and rotor sail ready, excel in energy efficiency and environmental performance following the result of a Joint Development Project.

The two companies, in conjunction with the Ukrainian Authorities, have announced that they have partnered to enable full War Risks insurance coverage to be offered for vessels operating in the Black Sea.

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines has announced that on September 11, 2023, its group company MOL and Kambara Kisen Co., signed a basic agreement on time charter for a newbuilding methanol dual fuel bulk carrier to be ordered and owned by Kambara Kisen. The vessel is slated to be delivered in 2027.

A 12 MW fuel cell system will be utilised for full propulsion onboard each of the six vessels, enabling 100% emission-free operations. Each vessel will be about 63 000 DWT and the first vessel is targeted for delivery Q1 2027.

EuroDry Ltd. has announced today that it has agreed to acquire three Ultramax bulkers, M/V Giants Causeway, a 63 197 DWT dry bulk vessel built in 2015, M/V Sadlers Wells, a 63 153 DWT dry bulk vessel built in 2015 and M/V Gallileo, a 63 177 DWT dry bulk vessel built in 2014, for a total price of about US$65 million.

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. is pleased to announce that marine biofuel was supplied by Peninsula, the leading global independent marine energy supplier, to the capesize bulker CAPE AMAL with charterer BHP, a globally renowned resources company and a long-term partner with shared goals to abate shipping carbon emissions.

With CCS-Ready scrubbers now being sold at pace, Wärtsilä’s studies across a range of vessel types come as next step in rapidly accelerating trajectory for CCS in shipping.