
Imports at top US ports surged to unexpectedly high levels this summer and may have hit a new record as the nation’s economy continues to reopen and retailers stock up for the holiday season, according to a new report issued by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Hackett Associates.

Saipem and Snam have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together on new energy transition technologies, green hydrogen development, and CO2 capture and reuse.

Greece’s Alpha Gas, a unit of Pantheon Tankers, is to take delivery of a 174,000-cbm LNG carrier from South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering. Offshore Energy understands that DSME will deliver the Energy Pacific to its owner on September 14, following the completion of its gas trials

Temasek-owned Pavilion Energy has completed a number of first during the past week with the LNG bunkering of Marine Vicky.

The Post-Panamax containership MOL Charisma, which experienced fire in one of its cargo holds while sailing off Sri Lanka last week, will return to Singapore to undergo neccessary inspections.

Prices of spot LNG cargoes contracted or delivered into Japan during the month of August dipped again after a slight improvement in June and July.

The Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has taken delivery of four LNG cargo tanks from its Chinese supplier.

If Turkey develops the giant Tuna-1 (Danube-1) gas discovery, it could potentially save the country up to $21 billion in import costs, Rystad Energy estimates.

LNG technology and equipment specialist Air Products has won an order to provide four of its heat exchangers for Sonatrach’s GL1Z LNG facility in Arzew, Algeria.

Dutch-German offshore grid operator TenneT is seeking underwater survey services for its offshore platforms. TenneT manages the operations of the German and Dutch high voltage cable connections from land to the offshore wind farms, the so-called grid connection systems. The contract covers the under

Xodus Group has been selected by Infinite Blue Energy (IBE) to carry out initial phase one work for Australia’s first, large scale 100 per cent green hydrogen plant.

d’Amico Tankers D.A.C. (Ireland), part of Italian shipping company d’Amico International Shipping (DIS), has signed a memorandum of agreement for the sale of MT High Courage, one of its oldest medium range (MR) vessels.

On 8 September, DP World’s flagship Jebel Ali Port welcomed HMM Gdansk, one of the world’s largest container vessels which is now on the return leg of its maiden international voyage between the Far East and Europe.

Transmission system operator TenneT has issued a contract notice for geophysical and geotechnical surveys of its existing and future offshore power cable routes. The contract covers the existing power cable routes off the Netherlands and Germany, as well as the future cable routes within German wate