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80% of ports do not reap the benefits of digitalization according to Innovez-One (Forum)
Innovez One, one of the world’s leading providers of port management software for the world’s busiest ports and towage operators, stated that of the 4,900 ports in the world, the majority are not yet using digital technology for even the most basic processes; Eighty percent of ports continue to rely on manual, legacy solutions

Marine industry leaders will explore ammonia as marine fuel in Singapore
A.P. Moller – Maersk A/S, Fleet Management Limited, Keppel Offshore & Marine, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping, Sumitomo Corporation and Yara International ASA announced that the parties have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly conduct a feasibility study (hereinafter “Study”) with the aim to be one of the pioneers

Seaspan Shipyards has awarded more than $1 billion to Canadian companies
NORTH VANCOUVER – As the COVID-19 pandemic creates a critical need to sustain jobs and drive economic recovery across the country, Seaspan Shipyards announced that it has awarded more than $1 billion in contracts to date to 140 Canadian companies from coast to coast that are supporting design and construction of two Joint Support Ships (JSSs) for

Work can now begin on Stad Ship Tunnel in Norway
The Norwegian Coastal Administration (NCA) has received the assignment letter from the Ministry of Transport and Communications, which gives a green light to start preparations for the construction of the ambitious Stad Ship Tunnel. “We will now start the processes of acquisitioning properties in the area where the ship tunnel will be located, as

Five percent zero emission fuels by 2030 needed for Paris-aligned shipping decarbonization (Forum)
The ambition of the Getting to Zero Coalition is to have commercially viable zero emission vessels operating along deep sea trade routes by 2030. But at what degree of adoption do zero emission fuels become “commercially viable”? An S-curve based analysis suggests that zero emission fuels need to make up 5 percent of the

Stena Bulk maxes out again with hybrid zero-emission concept design
Stena Bulk, one of Scandinavia’s largest tanker operator with a history of launching groundbreaking new ships, has unveiled its concept InfinityMAX hybrid bulk carrier design, pushing the boundaries of zero carbon, multimodal vessel design in shipping to a new level. The InfinityMAX concept, which is designed to carry both dry and wet cargoes in

Montreal waterfront negotiations resuming Wednesday
The on-and-off negotiations between the union representing 1,125 Port of Montreal longshoremen and the Maritime Employers Association (MEA) are on again, resuming Wednesday of this week in the presence of mediators. The return to the negotiating table was announced yesterday by the CUPE 375 union to its members after mediators had held separate meetings

DP World and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec establish joint port/logistics venture in Indonesia
JAKARTA – DP World, alongside its partner Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), have signed a long-term agreement with Indonesia’s leading conglomerate Maspion Group to start the construction of an international container port and industrial logistics park in Gresik. Work on the projects is expected to begin in the third quarter of 2021, with a total