

AXSMarine, a pioneer and market leader in the provision of advanced solutions and market intelligence for shipping professionals, is expanding its portfolio by launching a new tool for its AXSDry platform.The new Live Matrix freight calculation automates users’ workflows providing visibility over hundreds of spot and forward...
In line with its focus on continuous improvement of its cloud-based SeaNavigator voyage-optimization solution, Weathernews Inc has launched two new integrated AI tools – the Berth Waiting Forecast for vessel operators and New Tonnage Finder for charterers – at a recent customer networking event in Copenhagen.Leveraging...
Future newbuild ships of all types should be built without a sterntube and with a seawater-lubricated propeller shaft bearing arrangement, according to Blue Ocean Alliance’s Chris Leontopoulos.Speaking at a recent maritime industry forum in Hamburg, Mr. Leontopoulos said the sterntubeless ship design – jointly developed...
Global Survival Technology solutions provider Survitec has highlighted the dangers of inadequate maintenance, testing, and inspection of ship fire safety systems in a new white paper, which points to an alarming increase in fire-safety-related deficiencies found during Port State Control Inspections and subsequent ship detentions...
The handling of dry bulk materials used to be a completely manual process, but it is now being increasingly automated in a drive to reduce both the costs and the risks of injury, while also increasing throughput and accuracy.The demands of today’s highly competitive commerce and modern industry are such that speed, accuracy...
A research project which brings together The Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore (CARES), Laskaridis Shipping Co. Ltd, managers and operators of a large fleet of high-quality modern bulk carriers, and Metis will evaluate the real impacts of the fuels offered to solve shipping’s decarbonization...