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Americas
ER Offshore’s Brazilian subsidiary gets EBN licence
Athens: ER Offshore Navegação, the Brazil-based ship management subsidiary of ER Offshore, has been awarded an Empresa Brasileira de Navegação…
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Europe
TTS Handling buys Synchrolift brand from Rolls-Royce
Athens: TTS Handling Systems has agreed to purchase the Syncrolift brand and its vessel lifting assets from Rolls-Royce Marine North…
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Dry Cargo
Clearlake extends timecharter of Diana capesize at a discount
Athens: Clearlake Shipping (Singapore), part of Gunvor, has extended its existing timecharter of a capesize bulk carrier operated by NYSE-listed…
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Greater China
Fred Cheng scoops five VLCCs in tanker comeback
Athens: Fred Cheng’s Shinyo International has bought five VLCCs for a combined $326m, brokers told Splash today. All the deals are…
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Asia
Shreyas Shipping buys small containership from OEL
Athens: India’s Shreyas Shipping & Logistics has signed a memorandum of understanding to acquire a sub-panamax containership from Singapore-based Orient Express Lines…
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Europe
Container reachstacker on fire in Southampton
Athens: Fire crews tackled a “major” blaze that started from a container reachstacker at a yard near the Southampton Docks,…
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Asia
Whistleblower gets suspended from Kandla Port job
Mumbai: In a developing corruption scandal, a whistleblower has been suspended from working at India’s Kandla port. Sanjay Bhaty, Kandla…
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Americas
Navios sells two VLCCs to its midstream sister company
Athens: NYSE-listed Navios Maritime Acquisition is to sell two VLCCs to Navios Maritime Midstream Partners for a combined $100m. The vessels are the…
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Asia
Norstar sets up Myanmar crewing office
Singapore: Norstar Ship Management has opened a new crewing office in Yangon, Myanmar, which will undertake all crew manning and…
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Dry Cargo
Atlantska Plovidba denies share trading ‘irregularities’
Athens: Croatia’s Atlantska Plovidba has denied media speculation of irregularities in share transfers made by company executives in 2014. The speculation stems…
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Americas
NewLead defence attorneys gain permission to withdraw
Athens: NewLead’s defence attorneys Reed Smith yesterday received permission to withdraw from the breach of contract case brought by TransAsia…
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Asia
Malaysia’s Kuantan Port gets new private operator
Kuala Lumpur: The Malaysian government has granted Kuantan Port Consortium, in which Road Builder (M) Holdings has 60% ownership, a…
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Europe
Neste exits shipowning with sale of product tankers to Donsötank
Athens: Finland’s Neste Corporation is to sell two of its product tankers to Sweden-based Donsötank for an undisclosed sum. The vessels are…
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Europe
Euronav to pay $384m for Metrostar’s four VLCCs
Athens: Euronav has confirmed it will pay Greece’s Metrostar Management $96m per vessel or $384m in total for four VLCC…
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Asia
ST Shipping fixes five DPP tankers in floating storage coup
Athens: Singapore-based ST Shipping, part of commodity trader Glencore, has reportedly fixed five dirty petroleum products (DPP) tankers on short-term period…
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Containers
New Capital Product Partners boxship gets CMA CGM contract
Athens: NASDAQ-listed Capital Product Partners (CPP) has taken delivery of a new panamax containership, which will commence a five-year timecharter to CMA…
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Gas
Teekay LNG Partners orders two LNG carriers after BP deal
Athens: Teekay LNG Partners has ordered two firm 174,000-cbm LNG carriers plus one option from Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries after signing a…
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Europe
Capital Product Partners MR tankers win timecharters and extensions
Athens: One MR chemical/product tanker belonging to Capital Product Partners (CPP) has won a timecharter from Cargill, and another two have…
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Containers
Ship Finance International buys three boxships with charters attached
Athens: Fredriksen-led Ship Finance International (SFI) has agreed to purchase three 9,000-teu containership newbuildings, which have timecharters attached, from an unnamed…
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Asia
Mercator fixes kamsarmax to Clearlake
Athens: Gunvor subsidiary Clearlake (Singapore) has timechartered a kamsarmax owned by Mercator Lines’ Singapore division for a 12- to 16-month…
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