Danish Maritime and Danish Shipping, in collaboration with the Denmark-based ShippingLab, have announced that they  are establishing a new platform which they say will ‘make it easier to match the needs and expertise of Denmark’s maritime sector with relevant EU funding opportunities’. The partnership initiative builds on the recom­men­da­tions made by the Growth Team for Blue Denmark in 2025.  In a statement issued today (21 September), Nina Porst, Executive Director of Sustainable Ships & Skills at Danish Shipping, said: ‘The green transition of shipping is well under way. Shipping companies are investing, and new solutions are finding their way on […]

BetterSea, provider of a leading FuelEU compliance platform and marketplace, and GTT Marine, a business unit of the GTT Group, have announced a white-label integration partnership which they say will help to ‘accelerate FuelEU Maritime compliance for shipping companies’. Under the partnership, GTT Marine will integrate BetterSea’s platform into its own Vesper Insights platform offering, so GTT Marine customers and platform users can execute FuelEU trading and pooling end-to-end, directly from the Vesper Insights platform. The users will gain access to BetterSea’s full FuelEU infrastructure, including marketplace access, simulation tools, pooling and post-trade workflows, as well as streamlined Thetis reporting […]

Petrobras has informed ship.energy that a christening ceremony for the Starnav Elektra – the first vessel that the Brazilian national oil company has chartered under its Mar Aberto fleet renewal programme – was christened on Thursday (17 September) at the Port of Rio Warehouse, at Rio de Janeiro’s Pier Mauá. Built at the Detroit Shipyard in Itajaí, the platform supply vessel (PSV) received an investment of approximately R$450 million and will now operate at platforms in Brazil’s oil-producing basins. The Starnav Elektra sailed from Santa Catarina to Rio de Janeiro with an all-female crew. Led by Captain Isabela Teixeira Ponce […]