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In its newly published report for Q1 2025, the ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said it had recorded 27 vessel incidents in the Singapore Straits, compared to seven in the first quarter of 2024, with most of these events described as ‘low-level opportunistic crimes.’

Global ocean container shipping emitted ‘all-time high carbon emissions’ in 2024, driven largely by the impact of conflict in the Red Sea, according to data released by Xeneta and Marine Benchmark this week.

Green Marine – the global initiatives aiming to support maritime decarbonisation – has unveiled its 2025 programme, which now includes 15 performance indicators.

Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore (BV) has granted an Approval in Principle (AiP) to Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) for the design of its liquid-hydrogen-powered service operation vessel (SOV).

Global ship manager V.Group has been awarded the full technical and crew management of six scrubber-fitted, dual-fuel (LNG) ready LR1 vessels by International Seaways.

A new joint development agreement has been signed to establish the world’s first liquid hydrogen import corridor which will connect the Port of Duqm in Oman, the Port of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and key logistic hubs in Germany, including the Port of Duisburg.

Stolt-Nielsen subsidiary Stolt-Nielsen Gas has taken full ownership of Avenir LNG.

Class society Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore (BV) has announced the delivery of the CMA CGM SEINE, a new 24,000 TEU LNG dual-fuel containership, built by Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (HZSY) for the French shipping company.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has announced the signature of a study with Single Buoy Moorings Inc. for the application of CO2 capture modules on future floating production storage and offloading vessels (FPSOs) for Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras).

Cemre Shipyard has announced that Torghatten Nord’s NB1091 Hinnøy – billed as ‘Norway’s largest zero-emission ferry’ – has set sail from Türkiye bound for the Norway where it will operate on the Bognes–Lødingen route.