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Asia
Industry still ‘struggling’ with seafarer happiness
The Mission to Seafarers has just published the latest of its ongoing Seafarer Happiness Index reports, which revealed further evidence…
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Europe
Macron’s top aide in hot water over MSC corruption allegations
Anti-corruption police are investigating allegations that French president Emmanuel Macron’s chief of staff, Alexis Kohler, violated conflict of interest rules…
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Europe
D’Amico, Rina and Telemar debut pioneering fleet operating centre
Italian d’Amico Group has partnered with Rina and Telemar to build a new fleet digital operating centre in Rome. The…
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Europe
‘The next 30 years will see more change than in the past 100 years’: IMO secretary-general
Kitack Lim, secretary general of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), made his pitch today to keep the UN body at…
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Contributions
Posidonia, it’s a marathon not a sprint
Simon Ward from Ursa Shipbrokers on his six steps to getting through this hectic week in Athens. Here we are…
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Europe
Owners unite in slow steaming call to profit from the sulphur cap
The sulphur cap presents the capesize market with a once in a lifetime opportunity to cash in, delegates attending Capital…
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Tankers
Guggenheim Capital doubles down at DSME with VLCC brace
In the tanker sector, Guggenheim Capital has doubled its orderbook at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) by declaring options…
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Asia
NYK signs up to Internet of Ships Open Platform
Japanese shipping giant Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) has become a core member of an Internet of Ships Open Platform (IoS-OP)…
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Americas
Seaspan chairman slams Wang and Porter for failing to grab boxship bargains
Gerry Wang and Graham Porter stand accused of failing to snap up containership bargains while at the helm of Seaspan,…
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Contributions
Wait and see the smart play for 2020’s sulphur cap
Who’d be a maritime inventor? A combination of the glacial pace of legislation and the notoriously last minute approach to…
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Asia
India’s top container train operator moves into shipping
Container Corporation of India Ltd (Concor), the nation’s top container train operator, is moving into the coastal shipping space at…
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Europe
Huxley joins GoodBulk board as IPO talk heats up
Tim Huxley, one of the most famous names in Hong Kong shipping, has been appointed to the board of John…
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Europe
IM Skaugen seeks Singapore restructuring
Oslo-listed IM Skaugen has filed restructuring applications at the High Court in Singapore. Specifically the Norwegian tanker owner has sought…
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Europe
Angelicoussis crowned the highest valued Greek shipping billionaire
Greek shipping stats keep coming in thick and fast to the Splash newsroom ahead of next week’s Posidonia exhibition in…
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Europe
Bunkering’s ‘Nick Leeson’ gets 18-month prison sentence
The man who triggered the bunker industry’s greatest bankruptcy four years ago received an 18-month jail sentence yesterday. Lars Moller,…
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Containers
Shippers lash emergency bunker surcharges
Leading shippers have hit out at the rush by struggling boxlines to implement emergency bunker surcharges. After a series of…
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Europe
Maersk Honam to be repaired
Maersk has said it intends to repair, not scrap, the badly burned, 18-month old, 15,000 teu . The ship, which…
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Greater China
Ship recycling association urges Beijing to rethink scrap ban
The International Ship Recycling Association (ISRA) has urged Beijing to rethink its decision to ban the import of foreign vessels…
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Asia
Vitol, StanChart JV orders VLCC quartet
Elandra Tankers, the Singapore-based joint venture between Vitol and Standard Chartered, has inked a contract with South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy…
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Asia
NYK creates electronic checklist to enhance condition-based maintenance
An electronic checklist that collects and manages a variety of data through the use of tablet computers is now being…
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