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Europe
Norwegian authorities harpoon project to build world’s largest ship
A project that would have seen the construction of the world’s largest ship has slipped through the net. Norway’s Directorate…
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Tankers
VLCCs have been losing $2,100 a day so far this year
Following yesterday’s lead story on the “disastrous” state of aframaxes trading in the North Sea, Splash has data on the…
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Operations
Fair Pay at Sea campaign launches ahead of crunch ILO wage talks next month
A new website, Fair Pay at Sea, has been launched with backing from trade union Nautlius International, looking to raise…
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Europe
European rival to Flexport emerges
Adnavem, a Swedish tech start-up, today revealed that its first pilot customer imported containers from Asia to Europe and on…
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Regulatory
Australian politician seeks to capsize livestock shipping
An Australian politician introduced legislation to parliament yesterday to ban the export of live sheep. The government has introduced a…
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Asia
Car carrier fire under control
At around 0100 hours Korean time this morning the main fire on the car carrier was finally extinguished although the…
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Europe
‘Disastrous’ North Sea aframaxes losing $1,750 a day
Aframaxes trading in the North Sea have been losing money in dramatic fashion. Describing rates on the key trade from…
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Operations
Global seaborne trade projected to surpass 12bn tonnes this year
Global seaborne trade is projected to rise to over 12bn tonnes in 2018, working out at 1.57 tonnes for every…
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Asia
Major fire rips through car carrier docked at Incheon
Hundreds of emergency workers rushed to Incheon port on the west coast of South Korea this morning after a major…
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Bunkering
Esben Poulsson warns IMO of the ‘unholy mess’ the sulphur cap could bring
Esben Poulsson has been reelected chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) for another two-year term. Poulsson used his…
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Asia
Nova Shipping adds to woodchip orderbook at Chengxi
Singapore’s Nova Shipping has returned to Chengxi Shipyard in China for four firm plus four options of woodchip carriers. The…
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Europe
Container Ponzi scheme becomes one of Germany’s largest investment scandals
In Munich a fallen container leasing firm is unravelling to become one of Germany’s largest investment scandals in recent years.…
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Middle East
UAE commits to protecting seafarers in signing of historic memorandum with the ITF
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Federal Transport Authority (FTA) have signed a groundbreaking…
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Containers
Burnt Maersk Honam due to dock at Jebel Ali on Tuesday
Maersk Line’s partner on the main east-west trades, MSC, has revealed that the burnt will finally berth at the port…
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Tech
IMO establishes autonomous vessels taskforce
Discussions on how to address maritime autonomous surface ships have begun at IMO. The Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) is debating…
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Operations
New Zealand introduces strict biofouling rules
New Zealand has become the first country in the world to introduce biofouling rules across the nation’s waters. “About 90%…
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Europe
Skou lashes Maersk Line for underperforming the market
Søren Skou, CEO of A.P. Moller – Maersk, has once again lashed his shipping division, the world’s largest containerline, for…
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Containers
Pressure builds with 900,000 teu of newbuilds still to deliver this year
Analysts at Alphaliner are warning the deluge of new boxship capacity still to hit the water this year could harm…
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Bunkering
Study claims biofuels are the most economically feasible zero-emission alternative for shipping
A report authored for the charity Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) has stated that advanced biofuels may represent the most economically…
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Americas
Oracle looks at shipping’s blockchain quest with HMM collaboration
South Korea’s Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) has started working with California-based software company Oracle in order to move its data…
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