As part of APM Terminals Bahrain continued efforts to upgrade the Khalifa Bin Salman Port (KBSP) infrastructure and provide increased efficiency and sufficient capacity for future export growth.

Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) has confirmed plans for a 2020 low sulphur cap bunker surcharge.

The availability of capital, both equity and debt, is a perennial discussion and has two particular areas of focus at present - for consolidation and green loans for retrofits to meet environmental regulations.

As the 1st of January 2020 is edging closer, the effects of the IMO 2020 rule on burning cleaner marine fuels are bound to be diverse, across all ship classes.

UK-based marine services company Stewart Marine has contracted Neptune Marine to build a new EuroCarrier 2611, which is to be named ‘Viking Energy’.

China's Yangzijiang Shipbuilding has entered into a shipbuilding joint venture with Japan's Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding and and Mitsui & Co.

Equinor's Oseberg Vestflanken 2 field in the North Sea came on stream on October 14, and remotely operated from the Oseberg field center, the new Oseberg H platform is the first unmanned platform on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. 

World’s first LNG cruise ship, AIDAnova, has been successfully transferred to Eemshaven, Netherlands.

On 11 October, the US Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) announced approval of the first metal part created by additive manufacturing (AM) for shipboard installation.

German engineering company Gicon has completed tank testing of a model of its prototype floating wind turbine foundation.

Belgian port Antwerp said that throughput continues to register growth in the port.

The Panama Canal closed its 2018 fiscal year (FY 2018) with a record tonnage of 442.1m Panama Canal tonnes (PC/UMS), a 9.5% increase from the previous year.