With daily rates of USD 100,000 a few weeks ago, the LPG market was basically a money press, as BW LPG chief executive Anders Onarheim puts it in an interview with ShippingWatch. Today, rates would have a hard time going any lower, he says.

At Maersk Supply Service, only three percent of seafarers are female. The company wants to ensure that women never find themselves alone in a male-dominated environment and will deploy women in pairs, head of crew management tells ShippingWatch.

Europe's biggest port now presents a list of 27 companies that have secured permission to operate bunker barges in the port. The licenses have been introduced as part of the efforts to get better control of the port's bunker business.

Major bottlenecks throughout global logistics chains cause customers to enter contracts with liner companies that go beyond the usual 6-12 months. Danish retailer Coop is one example, writes media.

Tidewater spent 2020 revising its fleet, which resulted in the divestment of more than 50 vessels, shows interim report, in which impairments contributed to a large decifit.