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SFL offloads its oldest VLCC
John Fredriksen’s SFL Corporation has announced the sale and delivery of 2002-built VLCC . The sale, to an unrelated third…
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AET suezmax shuttle tanker trio chartered by Petrobras
MISC’s AET has been awarded long-term charter contracts by Brazil’s Petrobras for three suezmax class dynamic positioning shuttle tankers. The…
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Maersk Drilling drillship extended by Repsol
Maersk Drilling has received an extension from Repsol Exploración Mexico for 2013-built drillship . The drillship was originally contracted in…
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Ezra Holdings files for judicial management
Singapore’s Ezra Holdings, together with its subsidiaries and associated companies, has filed an application in the High Court of the…
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Tianjin Port shuffles top management
Tianjin Port has announced that the company’s chairman Liang Yongcen and president Liu Qingshun have stepped down from their positions…
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McDermott secures Trinidad contract from BHP
Houston-based offshore engineering giant McDermott International has been awarded a major contract by BHP to provide subsea umbilicals, risers and…
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Maple Leaf springs for first post-panamax
Chinese handy specialist Maple Leaf, the shipowning arm of Taizhou Maple Leaf Shipbuilding, has dipped into the secondhand market. The…
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Coronavirus predicted to wipe 6m teu of Chinese box volumes in Q1
Every segment of the shipping industry is now choking on reduced volumes of cargoes sparked by the coronavirus in China,…
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BIMCO boss hits out at Nigerian piracy status quo
The departing CEO of international shipowning organisation BIMCO has hit out at Nigerian authorities’ complete failure to rein in the…
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Yamanishi Shipbuilding files for court rehabilitation in Tokyo
Yamanishi Shipbuilding might have survived 2011’s tsunami, but the Japanese yard has not been able to swim against the tide…
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Shisha sends Hapag-Lloyd boxship up in smoke
Germany’s Federal Bureau of Maritime Casualty Investigation has issued a detailed 73-page report into the dramatic fire that ripped through…
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Cape sales filter in
James Marshall-led Berge bulk continues to renew his 50-ship strong cape arm, broking sources tell Splash. This week the Singapore…
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MOL in for Hyundai Heavy VLGC trio
Japan’s largest shipping company by fleet size has decided to go to South Korea for its next ship order. Mitsui…
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Brightoil to dispose of oil trading and bunkering business to stay afloat
Chinese private energy company Brightoil Petroleum has submitted a business resumption plan to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as the…
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American Commercial Lines to file for Chapter 11
American Commercial Lines, an Indiana-based dry bulk operator, has announced that it has agreed with its lenders to file for…
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Ocean Infinity launches unmanned survey vessel company
Houston-based subsea and data company Ocean Infinity has launched new company, Armada, to add 15 bespoke designed marine robots to…
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Call for governments to step in and wipe out a swathe of the OSV fleet
Fearnleys Offshore Supply has called the bottom of the OSV market, predicting a slow recovery, while also suggesting national governments…
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Eko Shipping takes bulker from Nova Marine Carriers
Turkish company Eko Shipping emerged this week as the buyer of modern small bulker , sold by Switzerland’s Nova Marine Carriers.…
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New initiative provides free wifi for seafarers calling at Sydney
An Australian-first initiative to provide a wifi signal and internet access for visiting seafarers on ships visiting Australian ports called…
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Former Hitachi yard to exit merchant shipbuilding
A Japanese dockyard prized by many owners in decades gone by for its VLCCs and panamax bulkers is to quit…
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