On September 14th, 2020, the LNG ENERGY PACIFIC (173400 M^3), built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), Korea, was delivered to Alpha Gas SA.

The company has made the following announcement:

The theme of this year’s World Maritime Day is sustainable shipping for a sustainable planet.

Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE: DSX), (the “Company”), a global shipping company specializing in the ownership of dry bulk vessels, announced that it has signed, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, a Memorandum of Agreement to sell to an unaffiliated third party, the 2006-built vessel “Sideris GS”, with delivery to the buyer latest by January 20, 2021, for a sale price of US$11.5 million before commissions.

The inclusion of shipping in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), which European lawmakers have recently supported, has ignored calls from INTERCARGO and the industry as a whole, for collaboration and adapted solutions to achieve the much needed reduction in Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions for greener shipping.