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Americas
Transpetro cancelling 17 tanker orders
Brazillian energy major Petrobras transport subsidiary Transpetro is cancelling orders for 17 tankers. The move seriously dashes government plans to…
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Europe
Drunk captain jailed
A ship’s captain has been sent to jail for eight weeks and fined £150 for being drunk in charge of…
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Europe
Danes push to create Global Maritime Forum
The Danish Maritime Forum wrapped yesterday with plenty of action points for delegates to take away with them. The third…
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Environment
IMO rules in favour of 0.5% sulphur cap by 2020
The delegates at the IMO have thrashed out a deal to put a cap on sulphur emissions of 0.5% to…
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Europe
NAT in for Samsung suezmax trio
Nordic American Tankers (NAT) has tapped South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) to build three suezmax tankers of about 157,000…
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Europe
Container rates are climbing: Xeneta
Xeneta, the benchmarking and market intelligence platform for containerised ocean freight, says that in-depth analysis of Q3 container shipping costs…
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Europe
HSH Nordbank swoops for Hanjin ships and charters them to 2M
German bank HSH Nordbank has swooped for nine neopanamax Hanjin Shipping boxships and is leasing them to the partners of…
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Europe
CMA CGM looks to sell NOL’s terminals for $1bn
French boxline is looking to make some quick cash from offloading assets of new acquisition Neptune Orient Lines (NOL). Bloomberg…
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Asia
Stevedore boss assassinated in Paradip
The general manager of Hyderabad-based Seaways Shipping and Logistics Ltd (SSLL) was shot dead yesterday in Paradip, in what local…
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Asia
Crew found safe following Malaysian piracy attack
Authorities located yesterday the 10 crewmembers and tug and barge that were the latest victims of piracy in Southeast Asia.…
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Europe
Technip raises full year forecast on back of growing subsea deals
Surprising news in the otherwise moribund offshore sector was contained in today’s earnings report from Technip The French offshore services…
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Europe
CMA CGM’s Rodolphe Saadé warns of more bankruptcies
While expressing pity for his Korean peer Hanjin Shipping, Rodolphe Saadé, vice chairman of CMA CGM, warned other bankruptcies in…
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Middle East
Gulf Navigation orders six chemical tankers
Having skirted very close to bankruptcy in the past 18 months, Dubai’s Gulf Navigation is back in ordering mode. The…
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Middle East
Shipping warned over escalation of attacks in southern Red Sea
Ambrey Risk, a UK security consultancy, is warning of a step change in violence seen in waters in the southern…
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Europe
Byzantine in for LR2s
Byzantine Maritime of Greece has come in for a one plus one order of LR2 tankers at South Korea’s Daehan…
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Europe
Furetank solves LNG supplies
German gas bunker supplier Bomin Linde LNG has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with the Swedish shipowner Furetank Rederi…
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Europe
Fundamentals of shipping are changing, warns Danish shipowners boss
At a press briefing this morning Anne Steffensen, director general of the Danish Shipowners’ Association, set the scene for the…
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Middle East
RPG fired at gas ship off Yemen
A number of private security firms have confirmed to Splash that the laden Teekay LNG vessel was fired on by…
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Greater China
Huxley’s Mandarin fixes latest newbuild to X-Press Feeders
Hong Kong-based Mandarin Shipping has fixed its latest newbuilding, the 1, 700 teu , to X-Press Feeders for a period…
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Europe
BW Dry Cargo takes another supramax
Fast developing BW Dry Cargo has paid $12m for another supramax. Founded by BW Group this April, BW Dry Cargo…
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