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Seaspan passes 1m teu capacity with acquisition of four secondhand boxships
NYSE-listed containership operator Seaspan Corporation has sealed a deal to acquire four secondhand 12,000 teu containerships for around $367m in…
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Genco Shipping & Trading to slash handy bulker fleet
US dry bulk operator Genco Shipping & Trading has announced a plan to sell more vessels as part of its…
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Valles orders aframax at Daehan
Having been pruning its fleet of elderly tonnage of late, Hong Kong’s Valles Steamship has decided to make a rare…
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Sevenseas Investment Fund makes debut bulker acquisition
Sevenseas Investment Fund, an umbrella fund incorporated in Luxembourg, has acquired its first ever bulk carrier – the 2012-built 36,600…
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Fred. Olsen Windcarrier awarded contract to finish German wind farm
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier has been awarded a contract for its jackup vessel to finish installing the remaining 11 turbines at…
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Turkish yard spent record 149 days installing a scrubber
When marketed in the run-up to the global sulphur cap, scrubber retrofits were meant to take as little as a…
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KSS Line adds VLGC order at Hyundai Heavy
South Korean owner KSS Line has placed an order at a Hyundai Heavy Industries for the construction of another 84,000…
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Awilco Drilling secures LOI for semi-submersible rig
Awilco Drilling has signed a letter of intent with Serica Energy for the provision of semi-submersible drilling rig for a…
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Weekly report details growing number of shipping companies targeted by malware attacks
Cyber consultants Red Sky Alliance with maritime security specialists Dryad Global have started publishing a weekly list of names of…
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IMO 2020 and demolition volumes
Is there a discernible scrapping trend brought about by the eight-week-old global sulphur cap? Jason Jiang investigates. The new IMO…
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StealthGas forms JV to buy larger LPG carriers
Harry Vafias’s StealthGas has formed a new joint venture with an unspecified party and bought three medium-sized LPG carriers. The…
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Euronav offloads suezmax tanker
Belgium-based tanker owner Euronav has announced the sale of its 2003-built 150,000 dwt suezmax tanker for a price of $21.8m.…
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Seagull & Videotel: Under new management
After bringing maritime training businesses Videotel and Seagull into joint ownership, Oakley Capital appointed former V. Group executive Manish Singh…
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Film highlights plight of seafarers hit by corruption at ports around the world
A new film from the Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC) shows the plight crews face around the world thanks to…
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Sri Lanka unveils new port plan at Colombo
The Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) has announced that it has signed a deal with AECOM Infrastructure and Environment UK…
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KPI Bridge Oil acquires OceanConnect from Glencore
Bunker broker and trader KPI Bridge Oil has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire OceanConnect Marine,…
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DOF awarded new PSV contract by Premier Oil
Norway’s DOF has been awarded a contract by Premier Oil UK for 2003-built platform supply vessel . The contract is…
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Equinor withdraws from controversial Great Australian Bight drilling plan
Norway’s Equinor has announced that it will discontinue its exploration drilling plan at Stromlo-1 in the Ceduna sub-basin, offshore South…
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Geoquip awarded offshore wind contract in the US
Swiss geotechnical company Geoquip Marine has secured a contract for its newly acquired geotechnical vessel to support the development of…
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Axxis Geo Solutions awarded North Sea survey
Axxis Geo Solutions has received a letter of intent with a major international oil company to commence an ocean bottom…
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