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Malte Humpert
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Germany Starts Producing Climate-Neutral Marine Methanol from Wastewater
Globally the shipping sector contributes around 706 million tons of CO2 emissions each year, around 3 percent of the total. The majority of containership vessels, oil tankers, and bulk carriers continue to use heavy fuel oil or marine diesel emitting substantial amounts of CO2 and other greenhouse gases.
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The Loadstar
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Despite Sourcing Shifts, ‘Don’t Write-off China’, Says CMA CGM CCO
China cannot be written off completely from supply chains, despite tension with the US and manufacturing shifts towards South-east Asia, according to CMA CGM’s chief commercial officer, Vikash Anand.
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Bloomberg
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Shippers, Steelmakers Spar Over Trump Levies for Chinese Vessels
US lawmakers, labor unions and steel manufacturers were at odds with shipping companies and farm exporters Monday over a Trump administration proposal to put million-dollar levies on China-linked ships docking in the US.
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Malte Humpert
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gCaptain
Chinese NewNew Shipping Line To Expand Arctic Container Service After Profitable 2024 Operation
Chinese box carrier NewNew Shipping Line has announced the expansion of its Arctic service for 2025. At the first-ever Russian-Chinese logistics conference “#Containers” held in Moscow last week, NewNew Shipping...
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Bloomberg
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Billion-Dollar US Levies On Chinese Ships Risk ‘Trade Apocalypse’
By Laura Curtis, Weilun Soon and James Attwood Mar 23, 2025 (Bloomberg) –For a symbol of the chaos engulfing world trade since the Trump administration walked into the White House, look...
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Reuters
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US Delegation Aims For Maritime Ceasefire In The Black Sea
By Pesha Magid and Pavel Polityuk RIYADH/KYIV, March 24 (Reuters) – A U.S. delegation will seek progress toward a Black Sea ceasefire and a broader cessation of violence in the war in Ukraine when it...
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Bloomberg
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China Discloses Powerful Deep-Sea Cable Cutter, SCMP Reports
By Bei Hu Mar 22, 2025 (Bloomberg) —China revealed for the first time that it has developed a compact deep-sea cable cutting device that is powerful enough to severe communication lines,...
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Reuters
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US Trade Chief To Speak With Chinese Counterpart As Tariff Rift Widens
By Trevor Hunnicutt, Jarrett Renshaw and David Lawder WASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s top trade chief, Jamieson Greer, plans to speak with his Chinese counterpart next week, the U.S. president...
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Mike Schuler
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gCaptain
USTR’s Proposed China Port Fees Could Cost Container Shipping Over $100 Billion, Expert Warns
A proposed U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) fee structure targeting Chinese-built ships and operators could cost the container shipping sector alone over $106.9 billion annually and severely disrupt global supply chains,...
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Reuters
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Russia Ships Arctic Oil to Syria for First Time
Two tankers hit by U.S. sanctions are due to offload Russian Arctic Oil in Syria for the first time, days after Moscow made its first known delivery of diesel there in more than a decade, according to LSEG data, a government source and local TV.
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Mike Schuler
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gCaptain
First U.S. Offshore LNG Export Terminal Gets Green Light from Maritime Administration
The Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) has issued a license to Delfin LNG, LLC for the construction and operation of the nation’s first offshore LNG export deepwater port. The...
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Sal Mercogliano
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gCaptain
Why China’s Targeting of the Maritime, Logistics, and Shipbuilding Sectors for Dominance is Important to the United States
By Salvatore R. Mercogliano, Ph.D., What’s Going on With Shipping As a historian and analyst of American maritime policy, the actions by China do demonstrate an unreasonable targeting of the...