Star Bulk — one of the largest dry bulk shipping companies — will start buying biofuels to power its fleet to comply with a new EU regulation from next year, its bunker director, Constantinos Capetanakis, told S&P Global Commodity Insights in an interview....

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The Baltic Exchange’s dry bulk sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, dropped on Monday, dragged down by losses across all vessels. The index, which factors in rates for capesize, panamax and supramax shipping vessels, dropped...

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Vietnam’s Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical has sought government approval to import an additional 1.68 million mt (12.3 million barrels) of Kuwaiti crude oil for its 200,000 b/d Nghi Son refinery, as the refinery runs above capacity to meet domestic product demand,...

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Volumes traded for the scrap futures contracts on the London Metal Exchange, which settle basis the Platts assessment from S&P Global Commodity Insights, increased on the week. Weekly LME scrap futures trading volumes in the week to Nov. 14 increased to 199,320...

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The latest data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed US crude inventories rose by a greater-than-expected 2.1 million barrels last week, while gasoline stocks fell by 4.4 million barrels to the lowest since November 2022. Earlier, the International...

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SQLearn, a leading provider of certified online training solutions for the maritime industry, & Seafair, a company that provides crew software & manning services, are formally launching a new partnership. The collaboration aims at helping shipping companies...

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