1. Lloyd’s Register OneOcean unveils major update to OneOcean Platform. The Platform has seen significant enhancements, making efficient and accurate voyage planning simpler and safer than ever before.
Lloyd’s Register OneOcean has launched OneOcean 2025, marking the most substantial enhancement to its digital maritime platform in recent years.
https://cyprusshippingnews.com/2025/04/08/lloyds-register-oneocean-unveils-major-update-to-oneocean-platform/
2. VESON Top 10 Singapore flagged vessel owners, operators, and beneficial owners. Using data from Veson Nautical soultion VesselsValue, we shine a spotlight on the Singaporean fleet including live, launched, and on order vessels and dive into the top 10 owners of Singaporean flagged vessels, the top 10 Singapore-based operators, and the top 10 Singaporean beneficial owners.
https://cyprusshippingnews.com/2025/04/08/veson-top-10-singapore-flagged-vessel-owners-operators-and-beneficial-owners/
3. Class societies collaborate to standardise emissions data fields at IMO. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has confirmed the expansion of the data reference model within the IMO Compendium on Facilitation and Electronic Business (IMO Compendium) following the conclusion of the 49th meeting of its Facilitation Committee (FAL 49), adding a range of standardised emissions reporting data fields for the first time.
https://cyprusshippingnews.com/2025/04/08/class-societies-collaborate-to-standardise-emissions-data-fields-at-imo-2/
4. IMO takes action on seafarers’ rights, substandard shipping
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has adopted crucial new guidelines to protect seafarers from unfair treatment when detained in foreign jurisdictions in connection with alleged crimes committed at sea.
https://www.shipmanagementinternational.com/news/imo-takes-action-on-seafarers-rights-substandard-shipping
5. Performance Shipping pens potential aframax sale deal. Greece’s Performance Shipping has entered into a forward sale and exclusivity agreement with an unaffiliated third party for an aframax tanker.
Under the agreement, the buyer ensured exclusive rights to submit a bid for the conversion of the P. Sophia tanker in an auction for the provision of an FPSO vessel for charter to a national oil company.
https://splash247.com/performance-shipping-pens-potential-aframax-sale-deal/
6. ZIM fixes Economou and Ofer 11,500 teu newbuild series in $2.3bn deal. Israeli carrier ZIM is bringing in 10 LNG dual-fuel containership newbuilds on long-term charter.
The New York-listed company has struck deals worth in total about $2.3bn with George Economou’s TMS Group and a shipping player affiliated with Idan Ofer’s Kenon Holdings for a series of 11,500 teu vessels.
https://splash247.com/zim-fixes-economou-and-ofer-11500-teu-newbuild-series-in-2-3bn-deal/
7. Fatal Electrocution Aboard Offshore Supply Vessel Highlights Safety Gaps in Engine Room Operations. An unqualified engineer lost their life aboard the U.S.-flagged offshore supply vessel Red Stag due to electrocution while attempting to troubleshoot a mud pump system in Port Fourchon, Louisiana.
https://gcaptain.com/fatal-electrocution-aboard-offshore-supply-vessel-highlights-safety-gaps-in-engine-room-operations
8. How Mobile Data Informs Safety and Efficiency Onboard and Ashore. Shipmanagers can collect data and make decisions on the move with access to information that supports optimised operations, writes Brandi Whitehurst, Customer Success Director, ABS Wavesight
The maritime industry is moving at speed into digital transformation, driving demand for access to vessel and operational data anywhere, at any time.
https://gcaptain.com/how-mobile-data-informs-safety-and-efficiency-onboard-and-ashore/
9. Trump’s Tariff ‘Medicine’ Engulfs Markets. U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to further increase tariffs on China on Monday, raising the possibility of further escalation in a trade war that has already wiped trillions of dollars from global markets.
https://gcaptain.com/trumps-tariff-medicine-engulfs-markets-as-u-s-stocks-brace-for-more-turmoil/
10. BIMCO issues statement on China’s imposition of tariffs on US imports. “On Friday, China announced a tariff increase of 34% on all US imports, in retaliation to the new tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump. These are in addition to tariffs implemented in February and March, focusing on goods such as grains, coal, LNG and crude oil,” commented BIMCO’s Chief Shipping Analyst, Niels Rasmussen.
https://www.shipmanagementinternational.com/news/bimco-issues-statement-on-chinas-imposition-of-tariffs-on-us-imports