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Operations
Anti-piracy barriers now available for rent
A new Scottish maritime start-up, Palaemon Maritime, has launched an anti-piracy vessel protection service. The company’s first product allows shipping…
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Ports and Logistics
Cambodia gets work underway on major new port project
Construction is underway at what will become Cambodia’s third main port. A total of $1.5bn has been earmarked for a…
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Greater China
No lockdown let up in China as damaging economic data rolls in
Shanghai officials have claimed, once again, that they are overcoming the worst of the covid crisis, six weeks after the…
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Bunkering
Singapore lays the blame for this year’s big fuel contamination scandal with suppliers from the UAE
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has laid the blame for a big fuel contamination outbreak on suppliers…
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Tech
Star and Stripe: Maersk partners with US payments system
Online payment system Stripe is celebrating the signing of a big new shipping client. Maersk, the world’s second largest containerline,…
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Gas
CNOOC inks record Chinese gas carrier order
China’s rapid build-up of its LNG fleet shows no sign of slowing with China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) placing…
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Tankers
Stolt Tankers buys three chemical tankers
Stolt-Nielsen subsidiary Stolt Tankers is buying three 33,600 dwt stainless steel chemical tankers built in Japan. The ships are expected…
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Gas
NYK seals fourth LNG contract with EDF
Japan’s Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK), via its subsidiary France LNG Shipping, has concluded a fourth LNG carrier long-term charter with…
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Europe
Europe readies further Russian shipping bans
The European Commission’s plans to ban Russian oil imports into the continent this year, as reported by Splash yesterday, are…
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Tankers
Fredriksen and the Saverys’ continue to build their shareholdings in Euronav
It’s two weeks today until a pivotal annual general meeting that will decide the future of Europe’s largest tanker company,…
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Asia
Safesea turns its attention to Ceylon Shipping Corporation
While watching its bid to privatise Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) go through countless layers of red tape in New…
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Containers
MSC outmuscles Maersk on the Asia-Europe tradelane
Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) has overtaken 2M partner Maersk as the largest carrier on the Asia-Europe tradelane in terms of…
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Tankers
Europe moves a step closer to banning all Russian oil imports
The European Union moved a step closer today to banning all Russian oil imports, something that will have enormous repercussions…
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Shipyards
Ship repair queues grow thanks to Chinese lockdowns
While the force majeures announced at multiple shipbuilding yards in the wake of China’s series of lockdowns have been widely…
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Shipyards
Hyundai Heavy showcases safe vanadium-ion battery to power next-generation ships
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) is promoting the use of a next-generation marine battery without the risk of explosion or fire…
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Regulatory
Japan puts a dollar figure in new carbon tax proposal
Running in the same week as Posidonia next month, the next gathering of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) at…
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Gas
European design for a 37,500 cu m liquefied hydrogen carrier unveiled
With yards in Asia jostling to bring out larger hydrogen carrier designs to make the nascent seaborne trade more mainstream,…
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Ports and Logistics
British Virgin Islands’ port boss charged in cocaine smuggling sting
The British Virgin Islands (BVI) is in turmoil following the arrest last week in Miami of the premier of the…
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Europe
ECSA appoints Sotiris Raptis as secretary-general
After a seven-month hunt for a new head, Sotiris Raptis has been appointed to lead the European Community Shipowners’ Associations…
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Greater China
China’s April PMI stats foreshadow challenges ahead
As Beijing talks up stimulus packages, official data published over the weekend shows just how sharply the rolling municipal lockdowns…
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