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Operations
Russia’s targeting of merchant ships branded a war crime
Russia stands accused of committing war crimes against international seafarers and merchant vessels to add to a long list of…
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Bunkering
Singapore’s contaminated bunkers crisis grows
Singapore’s bunkering crisis is turning into one of the most severe off-spec incidents in decades, likely leading to claims worth…
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Ports and Logistics
All Japanese ports to close for 24 hours on Sunday
Workers at every Japanese port will down tools for 24 hours this Sunday with no ships to be worked on…
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Shipyards
DSIC develops ammonia-powered newcastlemax
UK class society Lloyd’s Register (LR) has awarded an approval in principle (AiP) to Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC) for…
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Greater China
Covid crisis spreads along China’s coastline
Covid-19 cases continue to rise in Shanghai, while down south a giant convention centre has been converted to a quarantine…
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Ports and Logistics
Floods knock out South Africa’s largest port
Torrential rain – the worst experienced in more than six decades – has knocked out operations at South Africa’s largest…
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Bunkering
Chile positions itself as a future fuel provider with green corridor announcement
Today, the Ministry of Energy in Chile and the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping announced a formal…
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Gas
Adnoc L&S orders LNG carrier pair at Jiangnan
Adnoc Logistics & Services (Adnoc L&S), the shipping arm of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), has tapped China’s…
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Bunkering
$120m worth of HSFO in Singapore found to be contaminated
Singapore’s contaminated fuel outbreak is likely to cost tens of millions of dollars and keep lawyers busy for years to…
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Greater China
Beijing intervenes to try and keep goods flowing
Some residents of Shanghai stepped out of their homes for the first time in more than two weeks today, as…
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Operations
Concern mounts for crew stranded in Mariupol
Concern is mounting for the stranded crew in the besieged port of Mariupol as fighting in the city – and…
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Containers
Lidl goes shopping for German tonnage
Further details of Lidl’s new shipping line have emerged. Splash reported earlier this month how the giant European budget supermarket…
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Gas
Gen2 Energy presses ahead with compressed hydrogen carrier project
Norway’s Gen2 Energy has signed a contract with Sirius Design & Integration for the design of two specialised ships for…
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Regulatory
Maritime Labour Convention reaches 100th ratification
The 100th ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006) has been marked by a ceremony at the International…
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Tankers
‘We don’t need more of the same’: Alex Saverys on the battle for Euronav
The stage is set for a battle royal between two of Europe’s best known shipping families for control of the…
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Greater China
Lines start to omit calls to Shanghai, the world’s largest container port
Looking on horrified at millions of hungry, irate Shanghainese, citizens in many other cities across China have started to hoard…
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Operations
Shipping casualties on the rise on day 47 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Seafarers continue to be unwitting victims in the near 50-day war between Russia and Ukraine with casualties increasing and insurers…
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Containers
Ever Forward container removal operation gets underway
Container removal began Saturday as part of the boxship refloat operation in Chesapeake Bay. The process – using barges alongside…
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Tankers
Saverys family come out against Fredriksen’s merger plans
John Fredriksen’s pursuit of Euronav faces a number of hurdles not least from the Saverys family who have come out…
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Containers
CMA CGM buys GEFCO
Rodolphe Saadé has helped out his friend Emanuel Macron ahead of Sunday’s presidential election in France. The CMA CGM chairman…
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