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Stellar Daisy: Contagion rather than containment
I woke on Saturday to the terrible news coming from Uruguay that the giant 266,000 dwt bulker had disappeared in…
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Oceaneering wins umbilical contract from Anadarko
Oceaneering International has secured a contract from Anadarko Petroleum Corporation to supply the umbilical for Anadarko’s Constellation subsea tieback in…
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Hempel sets aside $40m for potential costs in German bribery case
Danish company Hempel, which produces ship coatings, has set aside $40m for costs in a bribery case in Germany, as…
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Philippine Bureau of Customs taken to court over ‘unwarranted’ tanker seizure
Magnolia Shipping, a Singapore offshoot of Greece’s Sea World, has taken the Philippines’ Bureau of Customs to court over a…
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Italian transport minister voices concern at container shipping’s consolidation
Italy’s transport minister has voiced his concerns about the supersizing of boxships and the consolidation being seen within the container…
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Tangshan Port suspends coal terminal construction
Tangshan Port has suspended the development of two new coal terminals at its Caofeidian port area in order to deal…
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Shipping Corporation of India acquires secondhand suezmax
The Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) has announced that it has signed an agreement with Liberian company Fidelity Shipping Corporation…
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Former ST Marine official sentenced to 16 weeks jail
A court in Singapore has sentenced Tan Mong Seng, former president of commercial affairs of Singapore shipbuilder ST Marine, to…
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General cargo ship sinks off Nantong, 12 missing
Kiribati-flagged general cargo ship sank near Nantong waters when it was sailing from Nantong to Busan in Korea this morning.…
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Polaris suffers another VLOC mishap
Splash has learnt that another very large ore carrier (VLOC) belonging to Polaris Shipping has run into difficulty off South…
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Fire extinguished on giant MSC boxship off Colombo
A fire that raged for 20 hours on the 14,000 teu was finally extinguished yesterday morning, but the crew, who…
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Fredriksen: Seadrill was not prepared for low oil prices
In an interview with Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv, John Fredriksen, chairman of near bankrupt Seadrill, admitted he did not see…
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Solvang to be privatised
A group including AS Clipper and the Steensland family have made a mandatory offer to take gas shipowner Solvang private,…
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JP Morgan grabs five ultramaxes en bloc from Setaf Saget
JP Morgan Global Maritime has taken over five ultramax bulk carriers from French dry bulk shipping operator Setaf Saget. According…
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Proliferation of icebergs in the North Atlantic causes concern
US authorities are warning shipowners to alter course in the North Atlantic due to an unseasonal peak in the number…
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Vietnamese vessel loses power and ploughs into Thai houses
A small Vietnamese general cargo ship smashed into four riverside houses to the south of Bangkok as it lost power…
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Ocean Rig restructuring plan approved
More than 75% of creditors of George Economou’s Ocean Rig have voted in favour of a restructuring plan put forward…
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Proposed changes to Jones Act could cost thousands of offshore jobs
The American Petroleum Institute (API) has criticized plans to amend some aspects of the Jones Act, saying they could cost…
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Vantage Drilling acquires jackup from Hercules Offshore
Vantage Drilling International has acquired 1979-built jackup rig from Hercules Offshore for an undisclosed amount. Vantage has renamed the rig…
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Alaskan oil and gas firm agrees to settle Jones Act case for $10m
Furie Operating Alaska has agreed a settlement whereby it will pay a $10m civil penalty for a 2011 incident in…
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