Asia bunker fuel demand typically down during the Lunar New Year holiday; however coronavirus outbreak in China exacerbated the downtrend, reports Reuters.
The Ministry of Health has raised its risk assessment from level Yellow to Orange; industry urged to be well informed of its implications.
Orders for LNG-fuelled vessels more than tripled the average ordered between 2016 and 2018 in preparation for IMO 2030 and IMO 2050.
Report tracks LNG-fuelled growth in vessel segments and worldwide expansion and development of LNG bunkering infrastructure along key trade lanes.
Course designed for Cargo Officers and Bunker Surveyors operating within the Singapore marine fuels industry; SS648:2019 hardcopies will be given to each trainee.
Kalimbassieris warns these inspections are unannounced and any discrepancies in bunker quantities will be considered violations of law.
Intended principal business activities of Straits Port Management Sdn Bhd are to carry on the business as an Investment Holding Company.
Preparations since December 2019 pay off with tanker MT Alnic MC transporting the first parcel of 15 TMT VLSFO from Kochi to Singapore.
Homegrown companies pave the way forward in commercialising marine hybrid propulsion technologies to reduce carbon emissions.
Though computer models analysing automatic identification system data to determine if illegal fuel bunkering can be detected using vessel pattern analysis.
