Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has ruled that the nation’s largest bunker supplier, Lanka Marine Services, must move from its site at Colombo port.

The Russian Ministry of Transport has signed an agreement with classification society Bureau Veritas of France to undertake inspections of Russian flagged vessels.

In line with its two-month adjustment cycle, Russia is to raise its oil export duties in August.

AMPNI has received delivery of three double-hulled bunkering tankers which will be deployed in Piraeus to replace their single-hulled counterparts.

Escalating bunker prices have claimed a corporate victim, as Europe West Indies Lines files for bankruptcy.

The BI Norwegian School of Management is launching a new executive shipping MBA in collaboration with Singapore’s Nanyang Technical University.

Shore-side jobs are to be axed as part of Royal Caribbean Cruises’ cost savings measures designed to combat rising fuel costs.

The first C40 World Ports Climate Conference, held in Rotterdam and attended by representatives from 55 ports, resulted in the signing of a declaration to reduce CO2 emissions and improve air quality.

Chemoil has appointed Soh Guan Tin Colin as Trading Manager in Singapore.

OW Bunker announces that 10 new recruits have been selected to join its international training programme.

Rising fuel costs have spurred Maersk Lines to increase its Bunker Adjustment Factor.

Farouk Ayoub Jr. has joined Houston-based Bominflot Bunker Oil Corp. as a Fuel Oil Trader.

Venezuela and Ecuador have signed an agreement to build a 300,000 barrel-a-day refinery in the Ecuadorian coastal province of Manabi, with construction schedualed to begin in 2010.

Pipelines at the Port of Durban’s container terminal will cease supplying marine fuel as of 11 August due to ageing infrastructure.

Steve Windley joins Jiskoot as the new Sales Manager for the Middle East, North Africa and the former Soviet Union.

Brazilian oil platform workers began five-day strike.

Cathie Papanicolaou joins Chemoil as Sales and Marketing Executive in Greece.

US lawmakers yesterday amended the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships, requiring the Coast Guard and EPA to administer and enforce international vessel emission standards under Annex VI to the MARPOL Convention.

Sources at Petrobras tell Bunkerspot that the state oil company is now taking nominations for bunker fuel, after a temporary suspension of trading activity yesterday.

The construction of the oil pipeline to link Abu Dhabi’s Hashban area with Fujairah may be competed ahead of its 2010 schedule, according to industry sources.

French cross-Channel ferry operator Brittany Ferries has withdrawn one fast ferry service from its schedule, reduced the sailing speed of its regular fleet and, on 1 August, will introduce a fuel surcharge on freight shipments in response to soaring fuel prices.

The Marseille Port Board has approved the construction of a seventh mooring berth for refined oil products at the Fos terminal.

Shipping lines are beginning to sign up to a US port incentive programme to reduce vessel emissions by switching to low sulphur distillate fuel.

Maltese supplier Island Bunker Oils has purchased a new barge, Paradise Bay, to be operational in the second half of July.

24-hours notice required for bunker nominations for Vitória, Tubarão, Ponta de Ubu, Praia Mole and Portocel.