The clean-up following OW Bunker’s collapse continues. Three shut-down OW Bunker subsidiaries in the US now return a large million-dollar sum to creditors.

27 companies join forces in effort to attract more talents to shipping, both on land and at sea. The initiative was launched in Zürich Tuesday.

ECSA’s newly appointed secretary general, Sotirs Raptis, has taken up the helm of an organization criticized by its own members for being invisible. In an interview with ShippingWatch, Raptis explains how he intends to alter that image.

BW Epic Kosan, a merger between Lauritzen Kosan and Epic Gas, increased both revenue and operating result by more than 50% in Q1. The gas carrier believes in growth for sea transportation of liquefied petroleum gas this year.

The EU Parliament has given its approval to the part of the EU’s large-scale energy reform that aims to include shipping in CO₂ quota system from the new year. Siglar Carbon has calculated the additional charges for a single container from Rotterdam to Shanghai.