by CanadianSailings | Mar 29, 2020 | Bruce Striegler, Environment, Featured, Ocean, Ocean Carriers, Other
By R. Bruce Striegler Around the world, owners of fleets of container ships, tankers, dry bulk carriers and ferries have been coping with the uncertainties surrounding the introduction of the International Maritime Organization’s new low-sulphur fuel regulations (IMO...
by CanadianSailings | Mar 29, 2020 | Bruce Striegler, Environment, Ocean, Ocean Carriers, Other, Other Stories
By R. Bruce Striegler It’s been more than a decade in the making, but the new rule mandated by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), lowering sulphur emissions from fuels used by the international shipping industry, went into effect on January 1, 2020. The...
by CanadianSailings | Mar 29, 2020 | Corporate events & profiles, Education, Ocean, Ocean Carriers, Other, Top Stories
Thanks to a donation from Canada Steamship Lines, students in Georgian’s marine programs, cadets and working mariners will have access to a new state-of-the art simulator and upgraded on-site systems at the Owen Sound Campus. Canada Steamship Lines contributed...
by CanadianSailings | Feb 25, 2020 | Brian Dunn, Corporate events & profiles, Government and Regulation, Ocean, Ocean Carriers, Other
By Brian Dunn The issue of abandoned and mislabelled cargo was brought to the attention of Canadians last year by the well-publicized case of garbage being labelled as recyclable plastics, and shipped to the Philippines in 2013 for “recycling”. For the past six years,...
by CanadianSailings | Feb 25, 2020 | Alex Binkley, Ocean Carriers, Other, St. Lawrence, Seaway and Great Lakes, Supply Chain and Logistics
By Alex Binkley The extra week of shipping through the Welland Canal in early January generated 16 vessel transits and that result had shipping lines and ports hoping this year’s experiment will be turned into a five-year pilot project. A little more than a month...
by CanadianSailings | Dec 8, 2019 | Ocean, Ocean Carriers, Other
By Mike Wackett November will be a decisive month for ocean carriers as they go all out to push up container spot rates on the key tradelanes of Asia-Europe and the transpacific. According to Alexander Borulev, commodity associate at S&P Global Platts, rates are...
