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Car carrier fire in Antwerp
More firemen have been called in this morning to help douse the fire onboard the car carrier . The fire…
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Reader interaction yielding plenty of fascinating insights
Bankruptcy and restructuring stories dominated Splash once again this week with readers lapping up our reports on Hanjin, Flinter, Ezra,…
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Explosion hits tanker at Basuo Port, at least one fatality
An explosion hit oil tanker Feng Sheng You 8 yesterday while it was loading naphtha at Basuo Port in Hainan,…
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Aqualis Offshore secures Brazilian FPSO contracts
Marine and offshore engineering consultancy firm Aqualis Offshore has been awarded contracts by Modec to provide marine warranty services to…
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Petrobras worker unions turn down improved pay offer
The chance of a strike by Petrobras workers has become likelier with the rejection by unions of an improved pay…
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Former PDVSA chief Ramirez rejects claim of missing billions as “lies”
The former president of Venezuela’s troubled oil firm PDVSA has rejected accusations from a government commission that the state oil…
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Keppel axes 3,000 more workers as 2016 job losses top 8,000
Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine has revealed in its results that it has cut a further 3,080 workers from its…
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GasLog orders new LNG carrier to support Centrica charter
Greek LNG shipowner GasLog has ordered an 180,000 cu m LNG carrier from Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries to support a…
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Expansion work begins at Guayaquil terminal
Extension work has begun on the dock at Terminal Portuario Guayaquil (TPG), a port in the Ecuadorean city of Guayaquil.…
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Iren Group puts share of OLT Offshore LNG terminal up for sale
A stake in Italy’s floating terminal OLT Offshore LNG Toscana will be put on the market for sale by Iren…
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Bangladeshi survives 12 days trapped in a container
An emaciated Bangladeshi man was found in a container from Bangladesh that reached a port in India’s Andhra Pradesh on…
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Avance Gas fixes finances amid ‘prolonged weak freight market’
Avance Gas has reached a comprehensive agreement with its lending banks. For a 2.5 year period commencing on January 1…
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Port of Seattle takes step forward with Terminal 5 upgrade project
The Port of Seattle has prepared the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for a planned project to modernize its Terminal…
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No change in shipping fortunes until 2018: NYK president
In an interview with Nikkei, the leading Japanese business daily, Tadaaki Naito, the president of Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK), one…
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Rickmers Maritime investors hit back with further legal action
Rickmers Trust Management, the trustee-manager of Rickmers Maritime, is facing legal action from investors who want to force the ailing…
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Gearbulk and Grieg Star ‘cornering the market’ with new JV
Gearbulk and Grieg Star are trying to “corner the market” in the open hatch/gantry sector, analysts at online ship pricing…
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Korean boxlines urged to form new alliance
Pulse, a business news site in South Korea, is reporting that Seoul is now looking at getting the nation’s smaller…
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Bashundhara continues fleet buildup
Weekly broking reports have been filled this year with Bangladeshi companies picking up vintage Japanese built tonnage. This week is…
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Subsea 7 wins EPCI contract offshore Egypt
UK-headquartered subsea specialist Subsea 7 has been awarded a contract by Pharaonic, for work offshore Egypt in the Atoll field.…
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Transocean raises $600m for new drillship
Offshore driller Transocean has closed a $600m note offering, where proceeds will be used to partially finance newbuild drillship .…
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