Middle East
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Prices for private maritime security guards shoot up
Prices for private maritime security guards onboard have shot up this year, new analysis from sister title Splash Extra shows.…
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Rumours of Houthi truce with China and Russia fall flat with latest tanker attack
Putting paid to reports last week that Chinese and Russian ships were to be given safe passage through the Red…
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AD Ports takes majority stake in Georgia’s dry port
AD Ports Group has sealed a deal to acquire majority ownership in the Tbilisi Dry Port in Georgia. The agreement…
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Chinese and Russians reportedly given safe passage through the Red Sea by the Houthis
Bloomberg is reporting that Yemen’s Houthis will not target Chinese and Russian ships passing through the Red Sea and Gulf…
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CMA CGM teams with Saudi liner newcomer
French liner giant CMA CGM has partnered up with recently established Saudi feeder and short-sea operator Folk Maritime to expand…
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No LNG carrier has transited the Suez Canal for 65 days
No LNG carrier has passed through the Suez Canal for more than two months, according to new data published from…
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Stena Bulk forms new tanker operation partnership
Swedish shipowner Stena Bulk has today announced it has entered into a partnership with an investment firm for the operation…
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Red Sea salvage ops not possible: IMO
Salvors will not come to clean up the mess left by Houthi attacks until the situation in the Red Sea…
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Geneva Dry Dialogues: Bahri Dry Bulk
In the 2020s to date, the dry bulk fleet at Bahri, the national shipping company of Saudi Arabia, has more…
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Houthis vow to extend attacks deeper into the Indian Ocean
Another ship has been damaged by the Houthis, who now claim to have hypersonic missiles in their armoury and will…
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Vietnam’s Hoanh Son remains on a panamax charge
Qatari owner S’hail Shipping has made a decent profit on a rusty panamax sale to the fast-growing Hoanh Son Group…
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DP World to build logistics centre in Busan
Terminal operator DP World has announced a $50m investment to develop a new logistics centre in Busan New Port, strengthening…
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ADNOC, BP pause $2bn NewMed acquisition talks due to Palestine conflict
Discussions regarding an offer made by British energy supermajor BP and UAE’s ADNOC to buy a 50% stake in Israel-based…
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Filipino seafarers at the brunt of the Red Sea shipping crisis demand change
The Filipino seafaring community is very much in the headlines with survivors of last week’s deadly bulk carrier attack in…
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ADNOC awards Ruwais LNG EPC deal to Technip Energies-led JV
UAE’s state-owned oil and gas company ADNOC has issued a limited notice to proceed with early engineering, procurement, and construction…
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Filipino crew head home from tanker seized by Iran
Iran is releasing all the remaining crewmembers of the Greek-owned tanker St Nikolas, which was seized by Iranian military forces…
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Gulf Marine Services pens first part of two-phase deal in the Middle East
London-listed liftboat operator Gulf Marine Services (GMS) has signed the first of a two-phase contract for one of its vessels…
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Shipping mourns first deaths from Red Sea crisis
Top officials from across the shipping industry have expressed their feelings about the first loss of lives from the five-month…
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First casualties feared in Red Sea shipping crisis as crew abandon missile-struck bulker
The Barbados-flagged, 50,448 dwt bulker was damaged in a missile attack off Yemen with several crew members missing. According to…
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Non-alliance liners double market share on Asia-Europe over the past year
The market share of non-alliance liners operating in the Asia-Europe tradelane has doubled in the space of one year. New…
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