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Tech
Global real-time maritime tracking service launched
Satellite AIS data services provider exactEarth has launched exactView RT powered by Harris, which it claims is the world’s first…
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Europe
Four European banks take ship recycling stance
At Nor-Shipping in Oslo yesterday, Dutch banks ABN AMRO, ING Bank and NIBC, together with the Scandinavian DNB, announced that…
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Europe
A2B-online buys its largest ship
The Anglo-Dutch intra-Europe short-sea operator A2B-online has bought its biggest ship. A2B-online has purchased the 658 teu and renamed it…
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Europe
Greece tries to lure UK-based owners and insurance firms to Piraeus post-Brexit
Greece is laying out the red carpet to try and entice UK-based owners and insurance firms to consider setting up…
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Asia
Tsuneishi Shipbuilding keen to diversify away from dry bulk
Tsuneishi Shipbuilding is looking to diversify from its core dry bulk offerings. The shipbuilder, with yards in Japan, China and…
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Asia
Posco keen to order LNG-fuelled cape
Korean steel mill Posco is in talks with local shipping lines and shipbuilders to construct an LNG-fuelled capesize. The 180,000…
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Asia
NS United to order another Japanese valemax
Japanese bulker giant NS United has signed a 25-year contract of affreightment with Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal and committed…
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Asia
Japan’s big three lines christen new merged container entity Ocean Network Express
Ocean Network Express is the name Japan’s three largest shipping companies have come up with for their new merged container…
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Europe
Fredriksen turns attention away from DHT to another big VLCC operator
John Fredriksen is looking at alternative crude tanker targets having given up hope of taking over DHT Holdings. In an…
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Containers
Alphaliner revises upwards its global boxport throughput growth projections
Good news for containership owners comes from the lead article in the latest weekly report from analysts at Alphaliner, who…
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Asia
Coroner confirms foul play onboard the ‘death ship’
A Sydney coroner has finally delivered a verdict on the so-called ‘death ship’. Three men died in mysterious circumstances on…
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Asia
SM Line adds two more boxships
The quickest build up from scratch of any containerline ever continues apace with news that South Korea’s SM Line has…
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Europe
MSC signs 35-year concession agreement to develop Côte d’Ivoire terminal
MSC and San Pedro Port have signed a 35-year concession agreement for the expansion of the San Pedro Container Terminal…
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Europe
Wärtsilä clinches first contract for novel hybrid propulsion system
Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has received its first order for the recently introduced Wärtsilä HY, a hybrid power module that…
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Europe
Global maritime stakeholders’ forum to be created tomorrow
Representatives of major stakeholders in the maritime supply chain will meet on Wednesday to create a global maritime stakeholders’ forum,…
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Europe
Frontline still in the hunt for acquisitions
John Fredriksen’s Frontline has vowed to take advantage of “historically” low ship prices to continue to grow its tanker fleet.…
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Middle East
Crew of four ships abandoned for years in UAE waters
A newspaper from the United Arab Emirates has outlined the terrible conditions for a number of Indian seafarers abandoned off…
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Asia
MOL’s windshield for boxships cuts CO2 emissions by 2%
Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has carried out tests on a windshield it has developed for containerships and claims the…
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Operations
Maritime Union of New Zealand calls for methyl bromide ban
The Maritime Union of New Zealand has welcomed the decision by Ports of Auckland to stop releasing methyl bromide emissions…
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Europe
DP World-led consortium in talks for Fesco stake
Summa Group, the holding company of Russian billionaire Ziyavudin Magomedov, is negotiating a minority stake sale in one of Russia’s…
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