Tag: Saudi Arabia

Recent information reports that the fire stricken TSS Pearl has sunk. The ship had suffered a major fire in the Red Sea last week, with all crew safely evacuated. 

Saudi Arabia's Border Guards' ship, in cooperation with a foreign ship, managed to rescue the crew of a container ship, that had suffered a fire accident while sailing in the Red Sea waters 123 nautical miles northwest of Jizan port.

Aramco launched the Aramco Research Center at KAUST (ARC KAUST), which aims to accelerate the development of low-carbon solutions for the energy industry using advanced analytics.

The preparatory phase of the IMO Coordinated Actions to Reduce Emissions from Shipping (IMO CARES) project has been launched at the IMO-Singapore Future of Shipping Conference.

Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani) signed three memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with (stc), Ericsson and Huawei, the Saudi Global Ports Company (SGP), the Red Sea Gateway Terminal Company (RSGT) and DP World, as an effort to automate operations in the country’s ports.

The Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) informed that the Saudi-led coalition diverted a fifth fuel vessel to a Saudi port.

The Saudi Ports Authority, MAWANI, announced the signing of MoU with the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration (SCCA).

On 8 December, Saudi Arabia and Greece signed a joint cooperation agreement in order to enhance their shipping collaboration.

Maersk signed an agreement with Saudi Ports Authority “Mawani” in order to set up an Integrated Logistics Park at the Jeddah Islamic Port in Saudi Arabia.

New funds will support projects to tackle biofouling and marine plastic litter and the designing of long-term programme to help cut ship emissions.