InterManager Daily News 02.01.2024.

1. Maersk picks Guangzhou Wenchong for next series of methanol-fuelled ships Alphaliner is reporting Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard (GWS) has won a contract to build a number of 3,500 teu dual-fuel ships for the Danish carrier. Ultimately, with options, Maersk may order up to 12 ships at the yard with the first ones slated for delivery in 2026 and 2027. The ships are reportedly costing $68m each. https://splash247.com/maersk-picks-guangzhou-wenchong-for-next-series-of-methanol-fuelled-ships/
2. Ship hits mine in the Black Sea A mine destroyed a general cargo ship in the Black Sea on Wednesday with the vessel’s captain reacting fast to ground the badly damaged vessel and save the crew.The Panama-flagged Vyssos was en route to Izmail in Ukraine when its stern struck the mine. Of the 18 crew, the cook suffered the most severe injuries and was hospitalised. https://splash247.com/ship-hits-mine-in-the-black-sea/
3. Don’t listen to the fearmongers over emissions trading in shipping Dire warnings of ballooning costs, threats of disruption and pleas for delay to the start of new regulation; the Christmas story for the shipping industry a familiar one. Once again, the European Union is the bad guy, ushering the industry into the Emissions Trading System (ETS) and with it drawing the kind of objections we have heard many times before. https://splash247.com/dont-listen-to-the-fearmongers-over-emissions-trading-in-shipping/
4. USS Ford Carrier Group Scheduled To Go Home The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group will leave the eastern Mediterranean Sea more than two months after being sent to the region following Hamas’ attack on Israel in October, ABC News reported. The carrier and other surface ships that form the strike group will head back to their home port of Norfolk, Virginia, in the “coming days” as originally scheduled, a senior US official and a US official told the outlet. https://gcaptain.com/uss-ford-carrier-group-scheduled-to-go-home/
5. Ukraine Defies Russia With Large Exports Via Black Sea Corridor Ukraine has exported 13 million tons of products through a shipping corridor in the Black Sea it established after Russia pulled out of a deal guaranteeing safe movement of vessels.Ports accepted 430 vessels for loading since the channel was created in August, Ukraine’s infrastructure minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, on Saturday. https://gcaptain.com/ukraine-defies-russia-with-large-exports-via-black-sea-corridor/
6. Maersk Opens Fire On Houthi Boat Swarm – US Navy Sinks Three Today in the Red Sea, the crew of the Maersk Hangzhou took evasive action and opened fire on Houthi boats that were aggressively swarming the ship just hours after it was hit by an anti-ship missile. Helicopters from the USS Eisenhower responded and sunk three of the four attacking boats. https://gcaptain.com/maersk-opens-fire-on-houthi-boat-swarm-us-navy-sinks-three/
7. Shipping shares outpaced S&P 500 amid 2023’s rising stock market As 2023 draws to a close, the oft-predicted recession is still nowhere in sight and the S&P 500 index is flirting with a new all-time high. It was a strong year for ocean shipping stocks: They performed even better than the broader market. https://www.shippingtribune.com/news/shipping/Shipping+shares+outpaced+S%26P+500+amid+2023%E2%80%99s+rising+stock+market
8. Fraudulent origins suspected for 80% of the EU’s UCO imports – T&E The European Commission recently published data from International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) on the origins of used cooking oil (UCO) feedstocks being used to produce Europe’s biodiesel and hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) fuels in 2022. https://www.shippingtribune.com/news/shipping/Fraudulent+origins+suspected+for+80%25+of+the+EU%E2%80%99s+UCO+imports+%E2%80%93+T%26E
9. Fraudulent origins suspected for 80% of the EU’s UCO imports – T&E The European Commission recently published data from International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) on the origins of used cooking oil (UCO) feedstocks being used to produce Europe’s biodiesel and hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) fuels in 2022. https://www.shippingtribune.com/news/shipping/Fraudulent+origins+suspected+for+80%25+of+the+EU%E2%80%99s+UCO+imports+%E2%80%93+T%26E
10. Europe-bound diesel, jet fuel cargoes divert from Red Sea At least four tankers transporting diesel and jet fuel from the Middle East and India to Europe are taking the longer route around Africa to avoid the Red Sea, ship tracking data show.Diversions around the Cape of Good Hope can lengthen tanker voyages to Europe by up to three weeks, leading to higher freight costs and potentially supply disruption. https://www.shippingtribune.com/news/shipping/Europe-bound+diesel%2C+jet+fuel+cargoes+divert+from+Red+Sea