Tag: MPA Singapore

Aegean Marine Petroleum announced that it has decided to exit the Singapore market as a physical supplier as of January 2018. Aegean will maintain a trading presence in the Singapore market.

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore and Shell Eastern Trading signed a MoU, to cooperate in the research and development and test-bedding of projects within the maritime industry, in areas of clean fuel technologies, automation and digitalisation.

Two new bodies recovered have been identified to be missing crew members of the Dominican-registered dredger 'JBB DE RONG 19', after it collided with 'KARTIKA SEGARA' tanker, in Singapore territorial waters, on 13 September 2017. 

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore announced withdrawal of 50% port dues concession for MARPOL-compliant double hulled port limit bunker tankers, starting from 1 January 2018.

120 volunteers turned up for the Clean-Up on Kayak activity organised by Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore at Sembawang PA Water Venture, on September 30. The operation was held in conjunction with International Coastal Clean-up Day.

Demonstrating multilateral cooperation to improve navigational safety in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, the Phase Two of a Joint Hydrographic Survey was formally launched via a Memorandum of Understanding signed at Kota Kinabalu, among Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.

MPA Singapore has issued a circular to inform about new port dues incentives in effect at the Port of Singapore with the aim to further support the use of LNG.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, in cooperation with ReCAAP ISC, jointly launched the inaugural Capacity Building Executive Programme on combating piracy and armed robbery against ships in Asia in Singapore.

Jointly organised by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore and the IMO, the Future-Ready Shipping 2017 Conference will bring together maritime leaders to discuss the latest developments in maritime energy-efficient technologies and also study existing collaboration models and sustainability.

Organised by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, BHP and GoodFuels Marine, the inaugural biofuel roundtable, held in Singapore on September 21, drove discussions on the use of biofuels as a sustainable alternative fuel for the future of shipping.