Bangkok: The Port Authority of Thailand is raising rates at its principle two ports, Bangkok and Laem Chabang. An extra fuel surcharge has been levied for container services and tugboat usage. The ...

Singapore: A bulk carrier owned by Seroja Zhushui 5 Shipping (SZ5SL), a joint-venture company of Singapore-listed Seroja Investments, was served with an arrest warrant by Conirma Marine (CM) on ...

Singapore: BH Global Corporation has announced that an employee of its subsidiary, Z-Power Automation, was among the deceased in the recent incident where a tug boat sank during a sea trial off ...

Kuala Lumpur: Jasa Merin (Malaysia) has agreed to buy two anchor handling tug supply vessels from Muhibbah Marine Engineering for around RM219m ($65.8m). The two 70-metre-long vessels are expected to ...

Japan: MOL Logistics, part of major Japanese shipping line, Mitsui OSK Lines, has formed PT MOL Logistics Warehouse, a wholly owned subsidiary, in Jakarta. “The company will… apply the dedicated ...

Hanoi: PetroVietnam is holding discussions with ExxonMobil over the development of one of the largest gas fields yet found off Vietnam. The Blue Whale gas field project is worth up to $10bn. It is ...

Singapore: Singapore-headquartered Miclyn Express Offshore (MEO) announced that it has been awarded three contracts to provide anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) services to Chevron in the Gulf of ...

Singapore: Vallianz Holdings has announced that is will be acquiring a 49% stake in Indonesia offshore vessel operator PT Swiber Berjaya for $17.5m. Vallianz is buying the stake from Swiber Holdings ...

Singapore: Sinwa, one of Asia’s top ship chandlers, has appointed Alex van Zuijlen as group sales and marketing director. Van Zuijlen previously worked for Sinwa as marketing director from 2003 to ...

Manila: Moves are afoot for the Philippines to follow Indonesia’s lead and ban mineral ore exports. The environment secretary has backed a proposal made last month by Senator Paolo Benigno Aquino that ...

Singapore: Bibby Ship Management and Singapore-based United Ship Management have formed Bibby-USM Shipping, a joint venture (JV) that will target the Chinese shipping market. Bibby-USM Shipping will ...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia’s UMW Oil & Gas has inked a $20m rig contract with Frontier Oil Corp, which will use the former's UMW Naga 7 jack-up rig for its drilling operations in Calauit field, the ...