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Europe
Navios is buyer of China VLCC duo
Navios Maritime Acquisition is the buyer of the two vessels reported sold by China VLCC yesterday, brokers tell Splash. The…
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Europe
Siem Offshore wins AHTS contract in Australia
Siem Offshore has won a contract from Woodside Energy that will employ one of its anchor handling tug supply (AHTS)…
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Europe
Team Tankers gets extra $50m in finance
ABN AMRO has joined Team Tankers’ existing loan facility as a lender alongside SEB and NIBC Bank, increasing the facility…
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Europe
HSH Nordbank gets €3bn cash guarantee approved by European Commission
Germany’s HSH Nordbank has received approval from German authorities to receive a €3bn guarantee increase as part of the European…
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Dry Cargo
Diana fixes capesize newbuilding and panamax bulker
SwissMarine Services has chartered Diana Shipping’s capesize newbuilding New Orleans (currently Hull No. H1364) for 11 to 15 months at…
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Americas
GasLog secures $1.3bn loan to fund LNG newbuildings
GasLog Ltd has secured export credit agency-backed debt financing for $1.3bn from 14 unnamed international banks that will fully finance…
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Africa
Yinson FPSO gets contract extension in Nigeria
Addax Petroleum Development (Nigeria) has extended its contract on Yinson Holdings’ floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit by a…
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Greater China
China VLCC sells two
China VLCC has entered into agreements to sell two of its six- to seven-year-old VLCCs to Marshall Island-registered entities for…
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Europe
BP timecharters tanker trio
BP has fixed a VLCC on timecharter and two LR2 tankers owned by Latsis-controlled Latsco Shipping. Latsco’s sisterships King Philippos…
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Americas
Sevan Marine investigation says illegal payments to Petrobras ‘more likely than not’
An independent corporate investigator has established it is “more likely than not” that ex-Sevan Marine employees made illegal payments to…
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Europe
Olympic to lay up three offshore vessels, 60 employees made redundant
Norway’s Olympic Shipping is to lay up two anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels and a platform support vessel. A…
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Asia
Bankrupt Daiichi sells capesize to NS United
Bankrupt Japanese carrier Daiichi Chuo has sold a capesize bulker and its charter to compatriot company NS United. Katsura (207,800…
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Americas
Ridgebury to sell tanker fleet
Ridgebury Tankers is to sell its fleet of suezmax, aframaxes and MR product tankers, keeping only its four VLCCs, brokers…
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Dry Cargo
Star Bulk cancels newbuilding lease, sells panamax
Star Bulk has confirmed that it has ended its lease of a bulk carrier newbuilding, which has been returned it…
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Dry Cargo
Three capesizes scrapped this week, global fleet has shrunk 5% in 2015
Three capesize bulk carriers have met the welder’s torch this week, bringing the total number of capes scrapped this year…
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Dry Cargo
Anglo American takes capesize on timecharter
UK-based miner Anglo American has fixed a capesize bulk carrier on an 11- to 16-month timecharter. The Samjohn Solidarity (180,702…
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Europe
Over 70 offshore vessels laid up in the North Sea
Two more anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels have been idled in Norway, bringing the number of vessels laid up…
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Americas
Farstad Shipping wins PSV charters, Petrobras cancels another
Three offshore vessels owned by Farstad Shipping have won charter extensions at undisclosed rates, but another vessel has had its…
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Offshore
Ocean Rig drillship chartered for work in offshore Senegal
Australia’s FAR Limited has contracted the ultra-deepwater drillship Ocean Rig Athena for exploration drilling in offshore Senegal at a reduced…
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Europe
E.ON sells its E&P business in Norway
E.ON has sold its Norwegian exploration and production (E&P) business to Germany’s DEA Deutsche Erdoel (DEA) for $1.6bn, and a…
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