Day: February 3, 2025

Bengal Tiger Line boss Bill Smart retires

Energy News Beat AsiaContainers Singapore’s Bengal Tiger Line (BTL) has announced that industry veteran Bill Smart is retiring as the container feeder operator’s chief executive. Smart will step back at the end of March after 35 years with the company but continue on BTL’s board of directors. “On behalf of the board, I would like […]

Shipping set to be reshaped by Trump tariffs

Energy News Beat White House Global seaborne trade flows are set for choppy conditions in the wake of President Donald Trump’s decision on Saturday to levy  25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% on goods from China starting tomorrow. For energy imports from Mexico and Canada, the tariff level has been set at […]

Cadeler bags first deals for newbuild wind installation vessel

Energy News Beat Cadeler Copenhagen-headquartered offshore wind installation player Cadeler has signed two contracts with undisclosed clients for its newbuild wind installation vessel Wind Mover starting immediately upon delivery.  The vessel, currently under construction at Hanwha Ocean Shipyard in Korea, will support operations, maintenance activities, and potential installation work in Europe. The contracts, which are […]

Glosten to design CORE POWER’s floating nuclear power plant

Energy News Beat Glosten Shipping nuclear propulsion start-up CORE POWER has reached out to naval architecture firm Glosten for the design of a floating nuclear power plant (FNPP) to power ports in the United States. CORE POWER’s FNPP concept is a nearshore infrastructure system that includes a barge-based nuclear power plant, barge support services, electrical […]

Peter Döhle contracts up to five boxships at GSI

Energy News Beat Peter Döhle Germany’s Peter Döhle Schiffahrts has added to its boxship orderbook with up to five 8,400 teu newbuilds in China. Shipbuilding sources say the Hamburg-based boxship and bulker owner and operator has contracted three firm and two optional vessels at CSSC Guangzhou Shipyard International (GSI), paying between $120m and $125m per […]

Russian Gas Peaks

Energy News Beat Daily Standup Top Stories Musk gains ‘full access’ to US Treasury system February 2, 2025 Mariel Alumit Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been granted full access to the US Treasury Department’s payment system, according to reports from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Historically, access to […] China […]

SeaBird to merge with Energy Drilling

Energy News Beat SeaBird Marine seismic specialist SeaBird Exploration and Singapore’s tender drilling rig specialist Energy Drilling are set to merge in a share-for-share deal creating a diversified offshore oil and gas services player. Under a letter of intent, the transaction will be carried out by issuing about 651m new SeaBird shares to Energy Drilling […]

Aframaxes dominate tanker sales

Energy News Beat Tankers Tsuneishi Aframaxes sales are filling up broking reports at an increasing rate as sanctions rain in. So far this year, about 10 ships have been reported sold in the aframax segment, tankers that reportedly are being sold charter-free, based on prompt delivery. One of the latest sales involves Greek account IMS, […]

India sets aside billions to develop shipyards

Energy News Beat AsiaShipyards India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced on Saturday the creation of a $2.9bn maritime development fund for the long-term financing of the country’s shipbuilding and repair industry, the latest in a series of measures the Narendra Modi administration is taking to make the world’s most populous nation a top 10 shipyard […]

LNG spot rates enter negative territory in the Atlantic

Energy News Beat Teo Malnar The dire start to the year for LNG carriers has hit new low benchmarks with some ship types now in negative territory in the Atlantic basin.  Spark Commodities, which tracks LNG rates, is reporting 160,000 cu m TFDE vessels were assessed at minus $2,250 per day at the end of […]