Day: November 15, 2024

Venkatraman Sheshashayee: Sixty is the New Assassin

Energy News Beat AsiaMaritime CEO Shesh, or Venkatraman Sheshashayee, is a retired CEO living in Singapore whose first novel, Sixty is the New Assassin, will be made available to buy on Amazon come Monday. Armed with degrees in marine engineering and management, he first sailed across half the known world and then built businesses across […]

Höegh Autoliners renews long-term transport deals

Energy News Beat EuropeOperations Höegh Autoliners Norwegian car carrier player Höegh Autoliners has renewed several long-term contracts with a major international car producer for transport of cars in various trade lanes. The company said the duration of the contracts is three years and that it had already started to ship cargo under some of the […]

US sanctions Syrian tanker firm

Energy News Beat Washington.org The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned 26 companies, individuals, and vessels associated with the Al-Qatirji Company, a Syrian conglomerate responsible OFAC maintains for generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) and the Houthis through […]

ONE and Seaspan debut shipmanagement venture in Singapore

Energy News Beat ONE Singapore has a new shipmanager. Ocean Network Express (ONE) and Seaspan have formed ONESEA Solutions to manage owned and chartered-in ONE ships. Raman Handa, a long-term Seaspan shipmanager, has been appointed the CEO of ONESEA. He commented today, “ONESEA marks the evolution of the partnership between ONE and Seaspan, as it […]

Fleet Management at 30: How the business of shipmanagement is changing in the 2020s

Energy News Beat Splash has launched a special publication to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Fleet Management, the world’s second-largest shipmanager. The new magazine comes at a pivotal time for the Hong Kong manager as it prepares for a change of leadership with Kishore Rajvanshy, the founding managing director of the company, handing over the […]

Call to create new UN body to focus on maritime security

Energy News Beat A new 77-page report from the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) has suggested the UN needs a whole new body to address growing maritime security concerns around the world.  The report suggests the UN lacks an institutional structure to address maritime security comprehensively.  “Neither the General Assembly’s ocean affairs and […]

China stretches lead at the top of shipbuilding stakes

Energy News Beat China’s grip on global shipbuilding is growing ever stronger, building a sizeable gap from second place, South Korea, with some warning the dominance the People’s Republic exerts in this construction sector could become an early target from the incoming Donald Trump administration in the US.  At the start of the century, China […]

Czech FM: If Europe wants US protection against Russia, it must support US on China

Energy News Beat   The United States remains Europe’s greatest ally regardless of who is in the White House, said Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský, adding that to face Russia, the EU should back newly elected US President Donald Trump’s China policy. “We share common interests and values that endure,” Lipavský (independent) said at the […]

Moscow rebukes UN nuclear chief

Energy News Beat Statements by IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi on the Ukraine conflict are “unacceptable,” the Foreign Ministry has said The Russian Foreign Ministry has rebuked the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, over his recent remarks about the UN watchdog’s mission at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). Grossi […]

EU’s top diplomat calls for suspending dialogue with Israel – media

Energy News Beat The bloc’s foreign policy chief cited human rights violations in Gaza as the reason, reports say Israel has disregarded EU concerns about possible human rights violations committed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Gaza, the bloc’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has said in a letter to EU foreign ministers, according […]