We are pleased to announce McQuilling Dubai is the proud recipient of the "Marine Broker of the Year" award, which was presented to the group at the 2016 Maritime Standard Awards in Dubai on October 24. 

McQuilling Services recently released the 2016 Mid-Year Tanker Market Outlook Update, which provides a review of the January Tanker Market Outlook as well as an updated forecast for the balance of 2016 through 2020 based on market conditions in the first half of the year.  Findings from the report can be found below. 

On May 25, 2016, the Director of McQuilling Services Singapore, Ms. Katharine Cheong-Koh, gave a presentation on the Global Chemical Tanker Outlook at the 2016 Intertanko Annual General Meeting in Capella Sentosa in Singapore.  The presentation focused on evolving chemical tanker trading lanes, the regional competitive landscape and identified investment opportunities for this sector over the next few years. 

On Monday of this week, the completed environmental impact assessment for the Empresa de Docagens Pedra do Ingá (EDPI) ship repair yard project was submitted to the Paraíba state environmental agency, SUDEMA.  This report, the “Estudo de Impacto Ambiental/Relatório de Impacto Ambiental” (Study of Environmental Impacts/Report of Environmental Impacts, called the EIA/RIMA) was produced in accordance with the requirements to receive environmental licenses for the construction of the new ship repair yard.

The Empresa de Docagens Pedra do Ingá ship repair yard to be located in Lucena, Paraíba represents a major infrastructure project in Brazil that will create a world-class facility standing beside the top ship repair installations in the world today.  From an ideal location proximate to major shipping lanes, the EDPI yard will deliver high quality, reliable repair and drydocking services to the global merchant fleet.  

We are pleased to announce that for the second consecutive year,  McQuilling Partners’ President and CEO, John Schmidt, was featured in Tanker Shipping and Trade Industry Leaders 2016.

We are pleased to announce that McQuilling Shipping Services India is now a broker on the panel of the Indian Oil Corporation, with BPCL and HPCL empanelment under process.Our offices in India are headed by Capt. Raghu Kodakara, who has joined us after having worked for a large ship owner, chartering vessels of various sizes. Our team, located in Mumbai and New Delhi, consists of crude, product and gas brokers.