The Smart Maritime Council recently unveiled Version 1.0 of the Standardised Vessel Dataset (SVD) for Noon Reports. 

Yemen's Houthis have asserted responsibility for another series of attacks on ships on May 27 in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, alongside targeting two U.S. destroyers in the Red Sea.

The Annual Report 2022-2023 of the Union of Greek Shipowners has been released, which it provides an important overview of the Greek-owned global fleet. 

The Methanol Institute (MI) has announced the appointment of Alexander Döll as its new Chief Operating Officer, effective immediately.

X-Press Feeders, Global Energy Trading Pte Ltd (GET), and PSA Singapore (PSA) have successfully completed the first simultaneous methanol bunkering and cargo operation (SIMOPS) in Singapore on 27 May 2024.

The Swedish Club published its Monthly Safety Scenario for May 2024, describing an incident in which cargo damage was caused by broken lashings in heavy weather. 

Bureau Veritas (BV) has granted Genevos with an Approval in Principle (AiP) for their HPM-250 hydrogen fuel cell.

Bellingcat has provided an update on the tug boat involved in the oil spill which occurred in Trinidad and Tobago a few months ago, saying that it was detained in Angola for breaching security parameters. 

On May 2, Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) began a long-term biofuel test run on its very large crude oil tanker (VLCC) Tenjun.

Close to 1,340 metric tonnes (MT) of blended methanol was bunkered ship-to-ship on 24 May 2024 in Singapore.