HMCC News

March 24, 2022

New Guidance For National Emission Reduction Released

The IMO-Norway GreenVoyage2050 Project has published a new guide on the development of National Action Plans (NAPs) to address GHG (Greenhouse Gas) emissions from ships. The […]

March 24, 2022

CMA CGM And Electrolux To Ship 40,000 TEUs Of Appliances Through LNG Powered Vessels

The CMA CGM Group, a world leader in shipping and logistics, and Electrolux, a leading global appliance company, announced the conclusion of an agreement to ship […]

March 24, 2022

MOL Adopts Car Carrier Operation Digital Transformation Promotion Project

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and its group company MOL Information Systems, announced the success of a demonstration test of automated space management for car carriers (booking […]

March 24, 2022

Northern European Maritime Leaders Brought Together To Discuss Advances In Sustainability

More than 30 maritime industry leaders from across Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland attended the ABS Northern Europe Committee to hear about the latest ABS advancements […]

March 24, 2022

Port Of Rotterdam First In Netherlands To Allocate Airspace For Drone Use

The Port of Rotterdam Authority will start a pilot on regulations and traffic control in the so-called ‘very low-level airspace’ to ensure that increased drone traffic […]

March 24, 2022

Photos: Greenpeace Activists Protest In Front Of Supertanker – Demanding That EU Ban Russian Oil

Baltic Sea – Greenpeace activists from Germany and the Nordics continue protests in the Baltic Sea, urging the EU to get away from imports of oil, […]

March 24, 2022

Norwegian Ship Owner Gets Prison Sentence In An Attempt To Export Ship For Scrapping

The Gulating Lagmannsrett, an Appeal Court in the Norwegian city of Bergen, has confirmed the prison sentence for Norwegian ship owner Georg Eide for aiding and […]

March 23, 2022

Suez Canal To Hike Transit Fees For Ships In May 2022

Egypt announced on Tuesday that it is going to hike vessel transit fees, for oil-laden tankers that pass via the Suez Canal, one of the world’s […]

March 23, 2022

Hard Sail System To Be Installed On Large Bulk Carrier Certified By Ministry Of Japan

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and Oshima Shipbuilding announced the introduction plan of large-scale dry bulk vessel with a hard sail system was certified as “Introduction […]

March 23, 2022

Hai Soon Diesel & Trading’s Order Of Three Bunker Vessels Delivered To ABS Class

The third and final tanker in an order of bunker vessels built to ABS Class to provide bunkering services to the fishing industry has been delivered […]

July 26, 2022

Progressive Measures Taken By Indian Government To Increase Job Opportunities For Seafarers

Following are the progressive steps taken by government to increase the job opportunities for seafarers in the last three years. Three-Tier Mechanism of Learning comprises of […]

July 25, 2022

UK House Of Lords Committee Disappointed With UK Government’s Response To Extensive Human Rights At Sea Recommendations

The UK House of Lords International Defence and Relations Committee Inquiry ( 1 March 2022) into the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) […]

July 25, 2022

WA Search Mission Rescued A Fisherman Who Spent A Night In The Waters Off Western Australia

Emergency crew members will keep their search at first light to locate a missing fisherman (a Chinese national) off Green Head, in the north of Perth. […]

July 25, 2022

Russia Says Strike On Odesa Port Destroyed Ukraine’s Military Infrastructure

Russian missiles destroyed Ukraine’s military infrastructure in a reported strike on Ukraine’s port of Odesa, essential for grain exports, a foreign ministry spokeswoman from Russia informed […]

July 25, 2022

Maersk Creates A Fast And Reliable India-Bangladesh Cross-Border Logistics Solution Using Inland Waterways

The first movement on Maersk’s end-to-end integrated logistics solution on the Indo-Bangladesh Protocol Route involved the transportation of containerised cargo from Kolkata, India, to a river […]

July 25, 2022

Coral Princess Cruise Ship Docks In Brisbane After Being Stuck At Sea For Two Days

The cruise ship, Coral Princess, had 2000 passengers on board and finally docked in Brisbane after being stuck at sea for two additional days. The ship […]

July 25, 2022

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority Bans Liberia-Flagged Tanker

On 23rd July, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) banned the Liberian-flagged oil tanker, AG Neptune, for six months in Australian ports. AMSA examined the Port […]

July 25, 2022

IMO Welcomes Maritime Humanitarian Corridor In Black Sea

IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim on Friday (22 July) welcomed the signing of an agreement between, the Russian Federation, Türkiye, Ukraine and the United Nations to establish […]

July 25, 2022

“CC-Ocean” Marine-based CO2 Capture System Demonstration Project Receives “Marine Engineering Of The Year 2021” Award From The Japan Institute Of Marine Engineering

“Carbon Capture on the Ocean” (CC-Ocean) project conducted in cooperation with Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, […]