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Asia
HMM in for up to 10 DSME VLCCs
Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) has signed a letter of intent with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) to build five…
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Greater China
Bulker orders in China proliferate
Dry bulk orders in China are beginning to proliferate – the cheap prices proving too tempting for many. Chartworld Shipping…
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Greater China
Desperate letter from abandoned crew in China calls for urgent help
The charity Human Rights at Sea (HRAS) has published a copy of a desperate letter for help from the remaining…
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Containers
APL debuts Indonesia’s first direct box link to the US
Indonesia has its first direct transpacific box link with the departure today of an APL boxship bound for Los Angeles.…
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Dry Cargo
Navig8 closes cape desk, hands fleet to SwissMarine
Navig8 has handed over all its chartered in capesizes to SwissMarine. According to a recent Baltic Exchange market report: “Navig8…
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Asia
Three more ships join search for missing Stellar Daisy
According to the Uruguayan navy, which has been coordinating the search for the missing , the number of vessels scouring…
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Asia
Rule changes could happen in wake of Stellar Daisy sinking: Korean Register
The Korean Register of Shipping, the classification society under fire from last Friday’s likely sinking of the VLOC, has admitted…
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Asia
Adani linked with buying APM Terminals’ Pipavav facility
APM Terminals refuses to be drawn on speculation in India that is looking to pull out of Pipavav port in…
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Asia
Attention turns to Polaris’s 19 converted bulkers
A Korean seafarers union has questioned whether Polaris Shipping’s fleet is fit for purpose and suggested tankers that have been…
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Europe
BW Offshore and ICBC Financial Leasing form powerful FPSO pact
BW Offshore has today signed a cooperation agreement China’s ICBC Financial Leasing to establish a long-term strategic partnership to jointly…
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Asia
Giant UASC boxship aground off Port Klang
The 13,500 teu boxship , once the largest boxship in United Arab Shipping Company’s (UASC) fleet, has run aground off…
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Europe
IUMI warns on increasing frequency of major vessel casualties
Statistics released by the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) show major vessel casualties are on the rise. The frequency…
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Asia
Stellar Daisy: Contagion rather than containment
I woke on Saturday to the terrible news coming from Uruguay that the giant 266,000 dwt bulker had disappeared in…
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Bunkering
Philippine Bureau of Customs taken to court over ‘unwarranted’ tanker seizure
Magnolia Shipping, a Singapore offshoot of Greece’s Sea World, has taken the Philippines’ Bureau of Customs to court over a…
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Asia
Polaris suffers another VLOC mishap
Splash has learnt that another very large ore carrier (VLOC) belonging to Polaris Shipping has run into difficulty off South…
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Asia
Fire extinguished on giant MSC boxship off Colombo
A fire that raged for 20 hours on the 14,000 teu was finally extinguished yesterday morning, but the crew, who…
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Europe
Fredriksen: Seadrill was not prepared for low oil prices
In an interview with Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv, John Fredriksen, chairman of near bankrupt Seadrill, admitted he did not see…
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Europe
Solvang to be privatised
A group including AS Clipper and the Steensland family have made a mandatory offer to take gas shipowner Solvang private,…
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Americas
Proliferation of icebergs in the North Atlantic causes concern
US authorities are warning shipowners to alter course in the North Atlantic due to an unseasonal peak in the number…
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Asia
Vietnamese vessel loses power and ploughs into Thai houses
A small Vietnamese general cargo ship smashed into four riverside houses to the south of Bangkok as it lost power…
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