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Asia
Hutchison Port Holdings Trust sails out of the Straits Times Index
Hutchison Port Holdings Trust is to be booted from Singapore’s Straits Times Index after its market value slumped dramatically. …
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Greater China
Soderberg to succeed Jensen as director at Global Energy Ventures
Australian compressed natural gas company Global Energy Ventures (GEV) has appointed well known Hong Kong shipping executive Thomas Soderberg as…
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Greater China
Pacific Basin continues fleet growth with ultramax buy
Hong Kong’s Pacific Basin continues to add to its fleet with the acquisition of 2012-built ultramax , according to brokers.…
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Greater China
David Palmer to retire as Wah Kwong readies reorganisation
David Palmer is set to retire as CEO of Hong Kong’s Wah Kwong, one of the territory’s oldest shipping lines.…
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Greater China
Hutchison signs up for another Egyptian terminal
Hutchison Ports signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday in front of the Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to establish a container…
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Greater China
Kirsi Tikka joins Pacific Basin
One of the most high profile names in the classification business has moved to pastures new, taking a director’s position…
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Asia
Swiber forms joint venture with Hilong Marine
Singapore offshore company Swiber Holdings has formed a joint venture through subsidiary Swiber Offshore Construction with Hong Kong-based Hilong Marine…
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Greater China
Fred Cheng cuts cape fleet in half
Fred Cheng has cut his cape fleet in half, selling the 13-year-old, 177,000 dwt for $16.5m to Xin Yuan, a…
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Greater China
Valles finally concludes aframax sale
One of Hong Kong’s oldest shipping companies, 102-year-old Valles Steamship, has sold its oldest aframax. Sources tell Splash that Union…
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Greater China
Ed Buttery takes Lauritzen handies
Lauritzen Bulkers has sold the box-shaped handysize sister vessels Emma Bulker and Louise Bulker. The nine-year-old, 31,900 dwt ships –…
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Asia
MOL seals Hong Kong FSRU contract
Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has fixed a long-term charter contract with Hong Kong LNG Terminal for the 263,000 cu…
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Contributions
The maritime start-up map
Tabitha Logan, co-founder of the maritime start-up competition, The Captain’s Table, writes for Splash today, taking a look at the…
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Maritime CEO
Landbridge Group: Building on Belt and Road
Rizhao-based Landbridge Group, a diversified multinational group specialising in port infrastructure, logistics, oil and gas, shipping and petrochemical industries, is…
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Europe
Kaptanoglu and Chao become first women to head BIMCO
One of the world’s most influential shipping organisations finally has a women in charge. Şadan Kaptanoğlu, managing director of Istanbul-based…
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Americas
Macquarie pays $1.78bn for OOCL’s Long Beach terminal
Amid a crowded field Cosco has picked a consortium led by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners to buy out a terminal in…
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Asia
Hong Kong hands guilty verdict to APL master over controversial Singapore military shipment
A long running court case came to a close Monday in Hong Kong with the Chinese master and boxline APL…
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Greater China
Coles takes Wallem ops to the cloud
The news from the Quarry Bay, Hong Kong headquarters of Wallem Group is coming thick and fast under new CEO…
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Operations
Wallem Group appoints new ship management head
Wallem Group has appointed John-Kaare Aune as its new managing director of ship management. Aune is expected to take up…
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Greater China
Cheng takes cape hit with notable sales
Finally the first cape sales of 2019 are filtering through with the most notable deal involving Fred Cheng. The former…
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Greater China
The Captain’s Table: Shipping’s Dragon’s Den
Shipping now has its own version of the Dragon’s Den, the hit BBC show where tycoons invest in entrepreniual inventors.…
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