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Operations
Shocking four-year plight of solitary Syrian at sea makes headlines
Tomorrow the general cargo ship will head for auction, potentially bringing an end to a tragic near four-year saga for…
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Environment
Jan Dieleman to lead the Sea Cargo Charter
Cargill’s shipping head Jan Dieleman and his counterpart at Trafigura, Rasmus Bach Nielsen, have been appointed as chair and vice…
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Europe
John Angelicoussis suffers heart attack, daughter takes over as interim CEO
John Angelicoussis, 72, Greece’s largest shipowner, suffered a heart attack on Saturday and is in a serious condition at a…
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Gas
Qatar invites owners to tender for the world’s largest LNG chartering deal
Shipowners in the LNG space are busy assessing the largest chartering tender in the history of the sector. Over the…
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Operations
Increased travel restrictions risk a flare-up of the crew change crisis
A number of shipping bodies are concerned that the numbers of seafarers being impacted by the crew change crisis are…
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Containers
Canada welcomes a new shipping line
Canada has a new shipping line. Founded by a family-run Ontario construction company Doornekamp Lines has been launched to take…
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Shipyards
British green shipbuilding fund launched
The British government under Boris Johnson is determined to rejuvenate the nation’s shipbuilding sector with a host of nearly shuttered…
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Bunkering
Hyundai Heavy pursues fuel cells
Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, the holding company of South Korea’s top shipbuilder, Hyundai Heavy Industries, has signed a memorandum…
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Gas
Shipping of CO2 goes mainstream with MOL investing in Norwegian pioneer
Shipping of CO2 is going mainstream with news Japan’s largest shipping line is moving into the sector. Until now, the…
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Asia
Queue jumpers dog Singapore’s vaccine rollout
Splash has unearthed many non-key workers who have jumped the queue for a Covid-19 vaccine in Singapore. Many citizens and…
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Environment
Ships born again with ‘smoothie’ fuel
In a 12-month trial, United European Car Carriers (UECC) replaced conventional fuel with biofuel onboard the 20-year-old, 140 m long…
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Environment
Number of installed scrubbers has doubled since last year’s global sulphur cap introduction
The price gap between low and high sulphur fuel oil has failed to hit the highs scrubber advocates would have…
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Operations
Blue sky thinking about game changing moonshots
I recently put out an all-points bulletin to PR firms to stop using the term ‘game changing’. Last week I…
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Renewables
Haldor Topsoe and Aquamarine to build green ammonia facility in Germany
Danish clean fuels provider Haldor Topsoe and private equity firm Aquamarine have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to…
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Dry Cargo
Dry bulk FFA prices rocket
Forward freight agreement deals done in the past 24 hours point towards a very bullish outlook for the dry bulk…
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Ports and Logistics
Brazilian ports get the digital twins treatment
Wilson Sons, the largest integrated port and maritime logistics operator in Brazil, has bought a minority stake in Docktech, an…
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Renewables
TechnipFMC pursues floating offshore wind market with new tie-up
Subsea giant TechnipFMC has entered into an agreement with Magnora to jointly pursue floating offshore wind project development opportunities under…
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Ports and Logistics
Port congestion reporting service launches
On the heels of its recent acquisition of Ocean Insights, project44 has debuted its free container port visibility reporting service,…
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Containers
ZIM bolsters its e-bill of lading investments
Israeli carrier ZIM is pushing its ambitions to ditch paper from bills off lading with a further investment in a…
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Containers
Container FFAs come of age
After many false dawns, container forward freight agreements (FFAs) are gaining traction during the current liner chaos being experienced around…
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