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Lloyd’s List- Lloyd’s List Intelligence: data snapshot
- A case for special treatment
- US heads for a watershed year on ballast water legislation
- Ignorance is not bliss for shipping
- Stashed cash can be a source of Greek hope
- A chill wind blows across the Elbe
- VLCC newbuilding deliveries hit 36-year high in January
- Bulk carrier demand boosted by 20% rise in Chinese coastal trade last year
- Central Shipping orders product tankers at STX Dalian yard
- RS Platou Markets downgrades a third of shipping stocks
- Tanker demolition to hit 20m dwt
- Knightsbridge Tankers poised to renew VLCC fleet
- Tighter chemical tanker supply, but no ordering yet
- Hammonia agrees $41.5m purchase for CMA CGM Wagner
- Brazil set for retendering spree on concessions for 77 terminals
- More ore in store at Australian mines
- Trough in dry bulk market has passed, says DNB Bank
- SinOceanic Shipping completes $100m bond issue
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Author Archives: Craig Eason
Progress, but agreement?
Talks went on until about 4am this morning over bunkers and a range of other topics that needed to be addresses such as agriculture, technology transfer, commitments etc.
Although Connie Hedegaard said the contact groups would reconvene later it appears they were not and the texts, most of which is in square brackets has been passed to [...]
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A clean viking lady
I took the chance to go onboard Eidsvick Offshore’s new LNG powered supply vessel Viking Lady.
The vessel has had a prototype fuel cell put onboard. The fuel cell is in fact the most boring thing in the world to look at. A noiseless grey box the size of a container inside of which are two [...]
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Anything new on the table?
Closed doors and more stress today. The media centre is more like a coral pen with all these heads of state demanding space and journalists subject to extra controls
The main poker game seems to have raised the pot up to $100bn but still a standoff for overall mitigation and adaptation. Could Sarkosy’s comments be [...]
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Richard Branson, hippies and ships
AP Moller Maersk opened its doors last night to allow industry to meet with Jose Maria Figueres and Richard Branson, two co- founders of the oddly named Carbon War Room.
Hearing one shipping industry figure tell Branson that shipping was doing its bit already led to a suggestion from Branson that the organisation moves on to [...]
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Poker chips and ships
Connie Hedegaard’s resignation as president of the Copenhagen talks has been officially put down to protocol, as a minister, who is lower in the political pecking order, does not have the position to hold office over the now present heads of state for the high level segment of the talks.
But given the lack of signposting [...]
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Maersk chief executive: Raise bunker fuel prices
AP Moller Maersk’s chief executive Nils Smedegaard Andersen took part in an open forum in the Bella Centre last night looking at the business vision for 2020.
Along with the Danish minister for economic and business affairs Lene Espersen and the award winning US author and columnist Thomas Friedman he gave his vision for 2020 and beyond.
“At [...]
Deadlock, but Connie has a vision
The meeting on bunker fuels being led by Singapore and Norway has now ended. No development there. Smaller states with lower numbers in the delegations are not taking part as they should apparently, leaving it to larger delegation nations with a focus on maritime issues to lead the debate. So has this the danger of [...]
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Still no breakthrough
The ministerial closed discussions (focusing on marine fuels ) being led by Norway and Singapore have yet to yield concrete results. One insider has indicated the EU proposal is still on the table (the 20% cut on 2005 levels by 2020) although there is still the hope it will be cut.
Meanwhile Arnie’s in town. Arnold [...]
Cleaning up at the end of a long two weeks