This week's top stories on ShippingWatch

Who benefits from the low oil price?
The falling oil price comes as good news to some and bad news to others:
Maersk Supply Service notes oil fluctuations
Oil price sends offshore shares down in Oslo
Norden: Tanker at highest level since financial crisis
Lower oil prices good news for Torm
Oil companies withdraw from the North Sea
Statoil: Johan Sverdrup unaffected by falling oil price
Oil and gas down USD 27.5 billion on Oslo Stock Exchange
The crisis in Germany
German container carrier Reederei NSB announced this week that the company will out-flag its entire fleet:
German container carrier to out-flag entire fleet
German KfW: German shipping will stay in crisis mode
The status of OW Bunker
On Friday, trustee of the bankrupt OW Bunker estate, lawyer Pernille Bigaard, took stock of the case after a week in which the fraud squad got involved:
OW Bunker trustee: Giant Singapore losses still a mystery
Hundreds of carriers trapped following OW Bunker crash
Global trading house recruits 40 former OW employees
Sulfur regulations move closer
What is the status in the industry with one month to go before the sulfur regulations come into force?
US working on bigger penalties for sulfur violators
31 shipowners now demand strong sulfur enforcement
This is how the EU will ensure sulfur enforcement
Southern Europe objects to EU sulfur proposal
ICS: Governments should join forces against sulfur violators
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