Operations
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SFL lands $200m charter for LNG-powered car carrier pair
John Fredriksen’s SFL Corporation has secured a 10-year charter deal with a European-based carmaker for two newbuild dual-fuel 7,000 ceu…
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MSC launches global electronic bills of lading
After running pilot projects in select countries since 2019, Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) has officially launched the electronic bill of…
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DNV surveyors in South Korea go on strike
Employees of classification society DNV have gone on strike in South Korea since Monday. A spokesperson for DNV Maritime told…
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Talks at the ILO over seafarer minimum wage break down
After two days of talks at the International Labour Organisation (ILO), negotiations on setting a new minimum wage for seafarers…
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InterManager vows to get the world’s seafarers vaccinated
Frustrated by the lack of progress and slow pace of international efforts, InterManager, the association of third party shipmanagers, has…
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BW Group: Andreas Sohmen-Pao on the characteristics tomorrow’s shipowner must possess
With the accelerating pace of change, businesses have a lot of things to consider. Few have been so proactive to…
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Chinese crews start clean-up of reported 500-tonne oil spill off Qingdao
Clean-up operations are underway to contain an oil spill in the Yellow Sea near the Chinese port city of Qingdao,…
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Panama Canal eyes carbon neutrality by 2030
The Panama Canal has started the process of decarbonising its operations with the goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2030.…
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Bernhard Schulte quits Hanseatic Unity Chartering
Five years after co-launching Hanseatic Unity Chartering (HUC), Bernhard Schulte has quit the joint tonnage chartering and marketing platform with…
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Toyota Tsusho launches biofuel trials in Singapore
Japanese bunkers supplier Toyota Tsusho Petroleum (TTP) will conduct biofuel trials in Singapore in collaboration with industry and academia under…
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Oil pouring into seas off Qingdao as bulker rams suezmax
An NGM Energy-owned suezmax tanker A Symphony has sustained damage off the Chinese port of Quigdao, causing it to spill…
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d’Amico: The challenge of decarbonisation
Paolo d’Amico, chief executive officer of d’Amico International Shipping and d’Amico Società di Navigazione group, has no doubt what is…
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Excessive working hours onboard in the spotlight
The Mission to Seafarers has published the latest Seafarers Happiness Index report for the first quarter of 2021. The report…
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Höegh unveils world’s largest car carrier design, set to be zero-carbon ready on delivery in 2023
Norway’s Höegh Autoliners is stepping up its decarbonisation game with a new zero carbon ready vessel set to enter service…
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French pioneering sail-powered boxship
Zéphyr & Borée, a young French company specialising in carbon-free transport, has embarked on a new ambitious project to develop…
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Seadrill seals drillship contract with Equinor in Brazil
John Fredriksen’s Seadrill has secured a contract with Equinor for the utilisation of the 2014-built West Saturn drillship on the…
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Fujairah prohibits crew changes for seafarers with recent travel to India
Fujairah has become the latest in line to ban crew change from vessels arriving from India as Covid crisis intensifies…
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Archer taking over Deepwell from Moreld
Norwegian offshore service provider Archer has signed an offer letter with industrial group Moreld laying out principle terms to acquire…
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Force majeure declared at Total’s Mozambique LNG
French energy group Total has declared force majeure at Mozambique LNG due to unstable situation in the north of the…
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World’s leading shipowners give their verdict on how industry will decarbonise
It’s a veritable who’s who of the biggest, most famous names in shipping for the first issue of Maritime CEO…
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