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Singapore: SMF launches campaign to highlight diverse career paths in maritime

Choose Your MariTimeline shares career stories of four real-life maritime professionals including Ringo Tan who is a business development manager originating green bunker fuels at A.P. Møller – Mærsk.

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Singapore: SMF launches campaign to highlight diverse career paths in maritime

The Singapore Maritime Foundation (SMF) on Thursday (30 May) launched “Choose Your MariTimeline”, a talent attraction campaign illustrating the diverse and purposeful career opportunities available in Singapore’s maritime industry.

Choose Your MariTimeline is the latest edition of SMF’s larger talent attraction and industry branding campaign “Own Your Future” aimed at youths and young adults.

Choose Your MariTimeline uses a digital experience to tell the career stories of four real-life maritime professionals with different educational backgrounds. It highlights the diverse pathways individuals with or without direct experience can take to enter the industry.

One of the four talents is Ringo Tan, a business development manager (Green Fuels Origination) originating green fuels at A.P. Møller – Mærsk. In his day-to-day life, he is embedded in the shipping and fuel trading ecosystem, working closely with renewable fuel producers, project developers, and colleagues to structure long-term green fuel deals that help ships complete a sustainable voyage.

Ringo Tan

The campaign, which includes an industry exposure component, invites jobseekers to build on their domain skills or apply transferable skills to make an impact on Singapore’s maritime sector, which is a key node of world trade and the global supply chain.

“The maritime sector is dynamic and transforming. Therefore, the need to give youths and young adults an up-to-date understanding of the industry is a continuing quest.

Building on the first two years of the successful Own Your Future campaign, the latest edition engages young Singaporeans in fresh and authentic ways by featuring real-life professionals whose pathways into maritime are sometimes unexpected and yet rewarding.

The campaign illustrates this by spotlighting a global industry open to people of varied skill sets and perspectives, offering diverse roles and career pathways for professionals to thrive. I thank our partners from A.P. Møller – Mærsk, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, Ocean Network Express, and Rio Tinto for working with SMF to share these stories,” said Ms. Tan Beng Tee, Executive Director of the Singapore Maritime Foundation.

SMF’s latest campaign comes as Singapore is transforming and building a future-ready maritime workforce equipped with new skills, spurred on by the twin forces of decarbonisation and digitalisation.

Choose Your MariTimeline centres on an immersive microsite which brings each professional’s key career moments to life as they enter the maritime industry after graduating from diverse disciplines. Participants can select a discipline, and learn how each person’s unique skills, education, and accumulated work experiences create value in sustainability management, green fuel trading, chartering, and network planning roles through bite-sized video stories.

The microsite’s participants will stand a chance to win the “MariTimeline VIP Pass”, an industry exposure experience organised with leading multinational shipping company Ocean Network Express (ONE).

Now in its second edition, winners of this year’s MariTimeline VIP Pass can go aboard one of ONE’s vessels to learn about shipping technologies, have lunch with its Chief Executive Officer, and network with senior maritime executives at the company’s global headquarters in Singapore.

A “Navigation Guide”, offering job seekers guidance in their maritime job search, will be made available on the microsite at a later stage of the campaign.

Note: More information can be found here including Choose Your MariTimeline talents’ profiles.

Photo credit: Singapore Maritime Foundation
Published: 4 June 2024

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Singapore withdraws remaining 127 charges against Hin Leong founder OK Lim

Lim Oon Kuin, also known as OK Lim, was issued a stern warning and a district court granted him a discharge amounting to an acquittal for these charges on 17 July.

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Founder of collapsed oil trader Hin Leong Trading, Lim Oon Kuin, also known as OK Lim, has had the remaining 127 charges against him withdrawn, according to The Straits Times on Monday (20 July).

OK Lim was issued a stern warning and a district court granted him a discharge amounting to an acquittal for these charges, including those for cheating, on 17 July. The discharge means Lim cannot be prosecuted again for the same offences.

Lim, 84, is currently serving a 13½-year prison sentence after the High Court reduced his original 17½-year jail term in March 2026. He was convicted in 2024 on two cheating charges and one count of abetting forgery in a case prosecutors described as one of Singapore’s most serious trade finance frauds.

Lim was convicted in May 2024 of two charges of cheating the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) and one count of abetting forgery that proceeded to trial out of a total of 130 criminal charges.

He was first charged in court on 14 August 2020, and was subsequently handed further charges in court on 25 September 2020, 30 April 2021 and 24 June 2021 for his role in perpetuating fraud on various financial institutions.

A total of 130 charges were eventually brought against him for cheating and forgery-related offences.

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Published: 21 July, 2026

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Singapore: Coastal Logistics Pte Ltd to be wound up voluntarily

Coastal Logistics was reportedly affiliated with troubled Singapore bunker player Coastal Oil (Singapore) Pte Ltd.

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July 21, 2026

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Several resolutions for Coastal Logistics Pte Ltd were made during an extraordinary general meeting held on 14 July, according to a notice in the Government Gazette on Friday (4 July).

The following resolutions were duly passed during the meeting:

As Special Resolution

That it has been proved to the satisfaction of the meeting that the Company cannot by reason of its liabilities continue its business and accordingly the Company be wound up voluntarily pursuant to Section 160(1)(b) of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018 (No. 40 of 2018);

As Ordinary Resolutions

that Mr. Wong Pheng Cheong Martin and Ms. Koay May Yee, both care of FTI Consulting (Singapore) Pte Ltd, One Raffles Quay, #27-10 South Tower, Singapore 048583 be appointed as the joint and several Liquidators of the Company for the purpose of such winding up; and
that the Liquidators be at liberty to open, maintain and operate any bank account(s) or account(s) for monies received by them as Liquidators with such bank(s) as they deem fit; and
that a Committee of Inspection will not be formed.

Manifold Times previously reported Nicholas James Gronow, director of Heng Tong Fuels & Shipping and Coastal Logistics, filed statutory declarations for both companies stating the firms cannot continue their businesses due to liabilities.

Both companies were reportedly affiliated with troubled Singapore bunker player Coastal Oil (Singapore) Pte Ltd.

In 2019, several vessels owned by both firms entered the sale & purchase (S&P) market in Singapore.

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Published: 21 July, 2026

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PIL’s LNG dual-fuel boxship “Kota Elok” arrives in Singapore on maiden call

As the first of 13 new 13,000 TEU vessels joining its fleet, Kota Elok is equipped to operate on LNG and low-sulphur fuel oil that helps reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.

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PIL's LNG dual-fuel boxship “Kota Elok” arrives in Singapore on maiden call

Singapore-based Pacific International Lines Pte Ltd on Monday (20 July) said its first 13,000 TEU LNG dual-fuel container vessel, Kota Elok, recently made her maiden call to Singapore on 15 July.

As the first of 13 new 13,000 TEU vessels joining its fleet, Kota Elok is equipped to operate on liquefied natural gas (LNG) and low-sulphur fuel oil that helps reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.

The vessel also incorporated energy-saving features and digital technologies to reduce fuel consumption and enhance operational performance, as well as a bow windshield to improve aerodynamics, contributing to improved fuel efficiency and lower emissions over the course of long-haul voyages.

“Following Singapore, Kota Elok will continue her voyage on our East Coast Service 1 (ES1) route to South America, calling at ports in Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina before returning to Asia,” the company said in a social media post.

Kota Elok also became PIL’s first vessel to receive Lloyd’s Register certification for compliance with the IACS UR E26 and UR E27 cyber security requirements.

Developed by the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS), UR E26 and UR E27 are mandatory cyber resilience requirements for newbuild vessels contracted from 1 July 2024.

Photo credit: Pacific International Lines
Published: 21 July, 2026