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Offshore
K Line Offshore to be disbanded
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha’s (K Line) Norwegian offshore venture has come to an ignominious end. After years of losses, management in…
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Splash Extra
Why I’d bet the house on shipping in 2022
I have a curse that’s well known within the Splash newsroom. More often than not when I write a story…
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Operations
Quarantine programme launched to combat omicron crew crunch
Shipowners, seafarers’ unions and maritime employer groups are establishing their own approved international network of quarantine facilities to ensure seafarers…
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Containers
Maersk enters strategic logistics partnership with Unilever
Maersk announced today the signing of an international freight supply chain management partnership with consumer goods giant Unilever effective from…
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Containers
Pakistan looks to develop a container fleet
Pakistan is looking to develop a containership fleet. Minister of maritime affairs Ali Haider Zaidi told Reuters the country, home…
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Gas
World’s largest FSRU heads to Hong Kong
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and Royal Vopak (Vopak) have come to an agreement whereby Vopak will acquire 49.99% of the…
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Containers
Port Klang and Piraeus join Ningbo and LA at the top of the congestion charts
To familiar congestion names Shanghai, Ningbo, Los Angeles and Long Beach, other ports such as Piraeus and Port Klang can…
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Finance and Insurance
Poseidon Principles for Marine Insurance launched
Six of the world’s leading marine insurers have launched today a groundbreaking initiative to provide transparency on carbon emissions and…
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Dry Cargo
Pangaea’s Ed Coll passes away
Ed Coll, the chairman and CEO of NASDAQ-listed Pangaea Logistics Solutions, has died. Coll was co-founder of one of the…
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Ports and Logistics
Guidelines produced to avoid Beirut style port blasts
The tragic explosions in Tianjin and Beirut have marked a decade of increased concern over the safety of dangerous goods…
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Finance and Insurance
Former Gard executive to lead the Swedish Club
Thomas Nordberg has been appointed to succeed Lars Rhodin as managing director of the Swedish Club from January 1 2023,…
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Tankers
Mitsubishi details its vision of coastal shipping
Tokyo-based firm e5 Lab and Mitsubishi Shipbuilding have agreed to provide the design for ROBOSHIP, a standard hybrid electric propulsion…
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Europe
New April dates for Nor-Shipping
The organisers of Nor-Shipping, one of the biggest names in the maritime events calendar, have today revealed the latest date…
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Ports and Logistics
Democratic Republic of the Congo gets its first deepsea port
DP World is pressing ahead with the development of a first deepsea port in the Democratic Republic of the Congo…
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Containers
101 ships spread across 1,000 miles waiting for berth space at LA and Long Beach
Out of sight, yet growing day by day, the number of containerships straddling the Pacific shoreline waiting for berths to…
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Operations
WHO’s medical passport to be used by transport workers as proof of vaccination
World Health Organisation director-general Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus and International Labour Organisation director-general Guy Ryder have confirmed their organisations will form…
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Tankers
Ocean Yield takes two Scorpio LR2s
Ocean Yield is investing in two modern LR2 product tankers, STI Gallantry and STI Guard, with 10-year bareboat charters to Scorpio Tankers with purchase…
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Operations
Six crew abducted from boxship off Equatorial Guinea
Vessel trackers and maritime security specialists are reporting a kidnapping incident off Equatorial Guinea.Dryad Global has reported six crew from…
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Dry Cargo
Taylor Maritime Investments takes leading stake in Grindrod Shipping
London-listed Taylor Maritime Investments (TMI) has bought a 22.6% stake in Singapore-based Grindrod Shipping Holdings for $77.9m via a private,…
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Containers
Box spot rates climb to new highs
In a year that has felt like one long Christmas for liner operators, a bumper end of year bonus is…
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