The British Ports Association (BPA) has released new analysis which it says challenges ‘misleading and inaccurate claims that EU carbon pricing is diverting container traffic to Britain’ and warns that normal port competition should not be presented as ‘regulatory avoidance’. In a statement issued on 15 October announcing the launch of the report ‘Drivers of UK container growth: Investment, liner restructuring and a reassessment of carbon-leakage narratives‘, the BPA said investment in new berths, deeper channels and larger container-handling facilities is driving the growing competitiveness of UK ports, with the trade body arguing that its findings challenge reports from the […]

Bunker Suite has announced that it has launched new Artificial Intelligence (A) tools for bunker traders, brokers and physical suppliers on its online platform. In a statement issued last week, Bunker Suite said that its customers were already using AI to capture bunker enquiries automatically – but now the company has extended the AI functionality so: Bunker Suite added that the customer’s team ‘stays in control, [as] everything the AI prepares goes through approval’. Image: Shutterstock

Wilhelmsen Ship Management has welcomed the latest methanol dual-fuel Shaper Class pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) to its managed fleet. The Royal Tern follows the delivery of the Arctic Tern that was completed in July. In addition to its methanol dual-fuel propulsion, the Royal Tern features a range of technologies designed to support energy efficiency and environmental performance, including an air lubrication system, energy storage battery system and AMP shore power connection. ‘We wish Royal Tern and her crew fair winds and following seas,’ Wilhelmsen Ship Management said in a social media post today (19 October). As previously reported by […]