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Coal Trade

Indonesia Coal Exports Post Rare Decline So Far in 2025: Maguire

Indonesia, the world’s leading exporter of thermal coal, recorded a significant drop in shipments in 2025, reaching a three-year low due to reduced demand…

Oman

Oman Receives Record Shipment of Australian Wheat

The MV Vela Star docked at the Port of Salalah this week, delivering 726,815 metric tonnes of premium Australian wheat, marking the largest single wheat shipmen…

China

Jiangsu Ocean Shipping Orders Boxship Quartet

Jiangsu Ocean Shipping (JOSCO), a subsidiary of Jiangsu Port Group, has signed a contract with Jiangsu Soho Chuangke Shipbuilding in Yangzhou to construct four …

Nuclear Equipment

Metal Cutting Begins for Nuclear Icebreaker Stalingrad

Construction has begun on the seventh nuclear-powered icebreaker in Russia’s Project 22220 series, named Stalingrad, with the first metal cut at the Balti…

Biofuel

Hong Kong Debuts B30 Marine Biofuel in Joint Effort by CPN and OOCL

Chimbusco Pan Nation Petro-Chemical (CPN) and Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL), both based in Hong Kong, have completed the city’s first B30 marine biofue…

Wave Energy

Carnegie Forms New Partnership to Scale up CETO Wave Energy Technology

Australia’s Carnegie Clean Energy and SKF, a global rotating equipment supplier, have partnered to advance the commercialization of Carnegie’s CETO …

Spain

Port of Barcelona Taps Powercon for First OPS System for Cruise Vessels

The Port of Barcelona has awarded Danish equipment provider PowerCon a contract worth €12.2 million (approximately $13.8 million) to construct its first on…

Germany

Telekom Deutschland Selects Compax to Support ‘Telco-As-A-Service’ Rollout

Telekom Deutschland, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, announced its partnership with Compax to develop a new Telco-as-a-Service (TaaS) platform. This collabora…

Electric Vehicles

Geely Automobile to Acquire Full Ownership of Zeekr in Push to Consolidate NEV Business

On May 7, Geely Automobile Holdings Limited announced its plan to acquire all outstanding shares of Zeekr Intelligent Technology Holding Limited, in which it cu…

Biofuel

Viva Energy Kicks off Australia’s First Cruise Ship Biofuel Trial

Viva Energy, an Australian fuel supplier, has initiated the country’s first marine biofuel trial on a commercial cruise ship. The trial began on April 5, …

China

Southern China Debuts Inaugural Homegrown All-Electric Tug

The Port of Guangzhou in southern China has introduced its first fully electric harbour tugboat, Siugang Diantuo 01, designed by the 605 Institute of China Stat…

Coal Trade

US to Seek UN Sanctions on Ships Taking North Korean Coal to China

On Wednesday, the United States announced plans to propose U.N. sanctions against vessels identified as breaching United Nations resolutions aimed at addressing…

United States

Celanese to Divest Micromax Ink and Paste Business

Celanese Corp., based in Dallas, Texas, has revealed plans to divest its Micromax portfolio of products, a move aimed at enhancing cash generation and reducing …

Electric Vehicle Charging

XPENG, Dongchu Group Ink Strategic Deal to Build Ultra-Fast Charging Network in Huangshi City

On April 28, XPENG, a leading new energy vehicle (NEV) manufacturer, entered into a strategic partnership with Huangshi Dongchu Investment Group Co., Ltd. ("Don…

Battery

Optimus, Enspired Form BESS Alliance in Greece

Optimus Energy and Enspired have formed a strategic partnership to optimize battery energy storage systems (BESS) in the Greek energy market. This collaboration…