Key Takeaways An FSRU does everything an onshore LNG terminal does, from a vessel. It receives LNG by ship-to-ship transfer, stores it in cryogenic tanks, converts it back to gas, and delivers it to a pipeline. That's the whole function: import, store, regasify, deliver. Speed and cost favor FSRUs at small to mid-scale. A newbuild costs under $300 million and reaches first gas in 12 to 18 months. A comparable onshore terminal costs $1 billion or more and takes 4 to 8 years. That gap is why...

QUICK ANSWER: The Port of Rotterdam is Europe’s largest seaport, spanning 12,500 hectares at the Rhine-Meuse delta. Full-year 2025 throughput reached 428.4 million tonnes, down 1.7% year-on-year. Dry bulk posted the steepest decline at 6.5%; container TEUs grew 3.1% to 14.2 million TEU. The port is the primary gateway for an estimated 500 million European consumers, connected via the Betuwe rail line, the Rhine barge network and over 1,500 km of industrial pipelines. (Source: Port of...

On 1 January 2026, S-100 ECDIS became legal for installation and use under IMO Resolution MSC.530(106). Here is the part most coverage of that date leaves out: as of late 2025, the testing standards needed for type approval of S-100-compatible systems had not been published. No ECDIS actually met the new standard on the day it became legal to install one. Source: SAFETY4SEA, 'S-100 ECDIS implementation timeline: Key dates for operators and ECDIS manufacturers,' 29 December 2025. I have stood...