Tag: bulk carriers

Global economic uncertainty and a cooling of the market has seen newbuild orders for dry bulk vessels fall by 26% year-on-year according to Hongbeom Park, Head of Korea for global Veson Nautical. 

VesselsValue has issued its Shipping Market Outlook: Q2 2025 Forecast, highlighting how geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainty, and shifting trade dynamics continue to shape the industry.

MMMCZCS announced an AiP potential for retrofitting conventionally fueled Kamsarmax bulk carrier to dual fuel methanol.

Onomichi Dockyard and Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. announced the joint development of the Bingo 42, a 42,200 DWT bulk carrier.

UK MAIB has issued an investigation report into an incident where three stevedores tragically lost their lives after collapsing in a cargo hold access space on board. 

ABS has issued guidance on the latest amendments to the International Code for the Safe Carriage of Grain in Bulk, introducing a new loading condition for specially suitable compartments partly filled in way of the hatch opening, with ends untrimmed.

In this week’s “Shipping Number of the Week” from BIMCO, Shipping Analysis Manager, Filipe Gouveia, explores the bulker newbuilding contracting which has plunged 92% y/y during the first two months of the year, to the lowest level in at least 30 years.

Berge Bulk completed the world’s first retrofit installation of the Renk IFPS shaft generator on one of its vessels.

A ballistic missile strike on a bulk carrier while it was docked at Odessa Port has resulted in four fatalities.

On 1 March a ballistic missile strike on the Port of Odesa damaged two commercial vessels and injured two port workers.