Norwegian tanker company Odfjell plans to flag five of its ships with the Norwegian International Shipping Register to show national support for the registry.
The Pacific-based PNA intends to add 4.5 million square kilometers of deep seas to its areas blocked off to fishermen in order to protect the tuna population.
Singapore, Shanghai, and Hong Kong have developed into a triumvirate of Asian shipping power centers, each with different strengths to offer the market.
Somali pirates aboard the South Korean Samho Dream threatened to explode the vessel last week unless they received ransom money, however, no new developments have occurred since.
Italy's classification society Rina has accumulated a record-breaking fleet size of 3,900 vessels equaling 27 million gross tons, in large part due to its business success with Chinese companies this quarter.
DNV has helped Indian energy firm Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) develop a safe, environmentally sound natural gas exploration and production program.
The ISRR's latest post addressed Iran's evasion of US sanctions through renaming its vessels and transferring their ownership to other countries. We thank the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control for revealing Iran's actions.
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