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Polaris fined $12,426 for Stellar Daisy sinking, families vow to fight on
The families of the victims of the Stellar Daisy disaster are not giving up in their pursuit of justice. Despite the…
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Wilhelm Wilhelmsen dies at the age of 82
Wilhelm Wilhelmsen, the fourth generation owner of the Norwegian maritime group Wilhelmsen, died on Saturday at the age of 82.…
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Shots fired at boxship off Nigeria
Shots were fired at a boxship departing West Africa on Friday in the latest violent attack to hit merchant shipping…
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How shipping should develop a purpose-driven decarbonisation R&D centre
Harry Sangree, the founder of SeaFreight Labs, commends readers to pick up a copy of Jon Gertner’s book on Bell…
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Capes struggle to find new owners
After a hefty January with a stream of capes hitting the market and a handful of deals close to completion,…
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Eastern Pacific orders product tanker quartet at Dae Sun
Singapore’s Eastern Pacific Shipping has placed an order at South Korean yard Dae Sun Shipbuilding for the construction of four…
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ACT/MERC: The potential of clean hulls
Dr Mario Tamburri, director of ACT/MERC, argues that a huge win-win for both commercial shipping and the environment can be…
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POSH awarded towage and positioning contracts by Petronas
Singapore-headquartered offshore marine services provider PACC Offshore Services Holdings (POSH) has secured two towage and positioning contracts to support the…
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Ex-Sembcorp Marine consultant gets 19-year jail sentence in Brazil
Singapore’s Sembcorp Marine has announced that a federal court in Brazil has sentenced Guilherme Esteves de Jesus, a former advisor…
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West of England buys into Stockholm insurer
The West of England P&I Club is buying a significant stake in specialist marine insurance provider Nordic Marine Insurance (NMI).…
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Piraeus Bank teams with Japan’s ORIX for new ship finance offering
Piraeus Bank has teamed with Japanese financial institution ORIX Corporation to start offering ship finance to the Greek market. “The…
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Ultramar sells three in three months
Chile’s Ultramar Group is busy in the sales and purchase market. This week sources tell Splash that one of its…
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China Merchants Port issues $99.5m worth of bonds for coronavirus control
China Merchants Port Holdings has announced that the company will issue RMB700m ($99.5m) worth of short-term bonds with a maturity…
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Belships sells another supramax to Marti Shipping
Norway’s Belships has announced the sale of 2007-built supramax bulker to Turkey’s Marti Shipping & Ship Management. The 50,000dwt vessel…
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Top Ships confirms sale of Gunvor joint venture MR tankers
Evangelos Pistiolis-led Top Ships has confirmed the sale of two MR2 tankers owned by the company in a 50-50 joint…
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Maersk makes late scrubber run, set to increase HFO use by 150%
Maersk, the world’s largest containerline, is set to more than double the amount of heavy fuel oil (HFO) its fleet…
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‘You cannot create an environmental paradise on an economic graveyard’: Ioanna Procopiou
Once again regulators were on the receiving end of an earful at a shipping conference yesterday with shipowners increasingly irate…
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Japan’s engine power limitation plans gain widespread support ahead of MEPC
A host of shipping’s most powerful states and associations have come round to support Japan’s controversial ship power limiting proposals…
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Nine kidnapped in seventh attack off Cotonou in the space of just one month
Another ship has been attacked in West Africa with nine crew kidnapped. The , a tanker belonging to Greece’s Oceangold…
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Diana Shipping fixes panamax, while capesize sale falls through
Greek dry bulk owner Diana Shipping has entered into a time charter contract with Koch Shipping in Singapore for 2006-built…
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