George Economou, who has interests spread acrosss shipping, most notably in DryShips’ modern fleet of 32 ships including 20 bulkers, six tankers and six offshore support vessels, walked away with the title of Greek Shipping Personality of the Year

Programme will include geopolitics, sanctions implications, the impact on trade patterns of shifting political balance, energy realignment, technological advances and fleet and fuel developments

We want your views on the big questions that will determine the shipping market outlook for 2020

Shipping stands at the threshold of another year, but rather than trying to guess what might happen in 2020, it's important to understand the present

Mr Hu is said to be a strong contender for CMG’s top seat as the current chairman Li Jianhong is reaching his retirement age

The tankers are scheduled for delivery in summer of 2021 while the 174,000 cu m gas carrier is due in early 2022

Ackerman cites family reasons for going after more than four years at the helm

Programme will include geopolitics, sanctions implications, the impact on trade patterns of shifting political balance, energy realignment, technological advances and fleet and fuel developments

Washington has said that it recognises opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s legitimate president. It is using sanctions to force Nicolás Maduro from office

Unilateral US bans on Iranian shipping, oil and petrochemical exports in place throughout 2019 have placed global shipping at the forefront of geopolitical unrest as companies and owners grapple with the trading and commercial implications

Washington has imposed sanctions on a number of Cuban companies for doing business with Caracas as part of its efforts to force Venezeula's president Nicolas Maduro out of office

The governments involved have agreed on the next steps, but their roadmap leaves the possibility open that they will not ask for a Mediterranean Sea sulphur emission control area

UPDATED: MSC hits back at criticism of its environmental performance. It argues that its ratio of CO2 emissions per tonne of cargo moved is among the lowest in the industry

Large bunkering ports are reportedly well-stocked and shifting smoothly into the new era of global sulphur rules. However, shortages of high-sulphur fuel oil have emerged in smaller ports

Titan LNG’s third bunker barge ‘will be ideal for servicing larger tankers, cruise, container and offshore vessels’, says chief technical officer Ronald van Selm