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Bunkering
Bunker prices hit all-time highs
With Russian tanks entering eastern Ukraine yesterday, bunker prices have hit an all-time high. Back in the summer of 2008,…
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Containers
Gerry Wang finds container work for novel gas carrier
MPPs, dry bulk carriers – even product tankers have been proposed to move containers during box shipping’s record earnings run.…
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Operations
Suez Canal still tops the ranks when it comes to shipping bribes
The Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN) has released the results and lessons learned from 10 years of collecting data of cancerous,…
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Environment
Mediterranean moves a step closer to becoming an ECA
Countries within the European Union along with Mediterranean littoral states have come together to lodge an official proposal with the…
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Operations
Salvors to board burnt Felicity Ace today
The blaze on the 6,400 ceu off the coast of Portugal’s Azores islands has eased to the point where salvors…
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Tech
Windward launches its Ocean Freight Visibility solution
Israeli maritime AI firm Windward has launched its Ocean Freight Visibility solution. The new solution enables freight forwarders to improve…
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Splash Extra
Carriers reign supreme
Clients of shipping lines choose to have short memories. Shippers do like to moan - theirs is such a fractious…
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Europe
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine seen hiking tonne-mile picture for shipping
Shipping is making emergency plans as a swathe of Eastern Europe becomes a war zone. Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin…
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Finance and Insurance
Massive claims expected from Felicity Ace blaze
The blaze on the 6,400 ceu off the coast of Portugal’s Azores islands is finally easing. The Panama-flagged ship caught…
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Containers
Lomar quintuples its money on recently acquired boxship
More stunning boxship sales are emerging. UK-based Lomar Shipping continues to be active on the sell side and according to…
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Europe
UK presses ahead with car carrier collusion case
The rolling car carrier cartel court craze has turned to the UK, where a class action lawsuit has been launched…
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Tankers
Tanker breaking up on Reunion’s eastern shoreline
The Chinese company charged with salvaging the Wakashio bulk carrier, 2020’s most high profile casualty, finished its job in Mauritius…
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Dry Cargo
Erasmus buys Japanese kamsarmax
Erasmus Shipinvest has paid NS United Kaiun Kaisha $16.4m to acquire the 82,000 dwt kamsarmax Navios Prosperity, and has renamed…
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Operations
Shipmanager supplier platform launches
A technical services digitalisation platform has launched out of Athens aiming to automate, streamline and optimise the relationship between shipmanagers…
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Operations
Roaring S&P start to 2022 points to new records
The opening weeks of 2022 suggest another record year is on the cards in terms of the overall sale and…
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Containers
Empty container avalanche predicted to cause chaos later this year
When global supply chains snap back to some form of normality – widely tipped to be in the second half…
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Containers
Box spill off the Netherlands
The Dutch coastguard spent the weekend trying to find 26 empty containers which fell off the 6,350 teu teu near…
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Offshore
Energy firms head for the door in Myanmar
Malaysia’s Petronas and Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp are selling their stakes in Myanmar’s Yetagun gas field, following a host of other…
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Containers
Competition authorities in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and NZ team up to investigate cartel conduct in global supply chains
Competition regulators from the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are working together to identify potential cartel conduct…
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Europe
European Commission urged to investigate liners over their ‘unfair’ and ‘discriminatory’ practices
The European Association for Forwarding, Transport, Logistics and Customs Services (CLECAT) has sent a letter to the European Union, urging…
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