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Americas
PDVSA’s tanker fleet in urgent need of overhaul
The Venezuelan tanker fleet is largely not fit for trading, internal documents seen by Reuters show. More than half of…
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Operations
Seafarer happiness levels fall
The Mission to Seafarers has published the latest Seafarers Happiness Index report for Q1 2023, revealing a decline in overall…
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Ports and Logistics
Adani offloads Myanmar port
India’s Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ) has exited the Myanmar market, finding a buyer to stump up…
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Tankers
World’s first oil tanker shipping ETF starts trading in New York
John Kartsonas-led Breakwave Advisors yesterday debuted the world’s first tanker shipping exchange traded fund (ETF) on the New York Stock…
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Europe
CEVA Logistics enters the car carrier trades
CEVA Logistics, a subsidiary of French liner CMA CGM, has entered the car carrier trades, taking four dual-fuel Eastern Pacific…
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Europe
EMS-Fehn-Group CEO passes away
Manfred Müller, the CEO of Germany’s EMS-Fehn-Group, passed away on Tuesday, aged 56. He had joined the organisation in 2008…
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Tankers
Tanker markets at decades-high: Danish Ship Finance
Danish Ship Finance has published its latest keenly awaited biannual shipping markets report, backing up coverage led by Splash Extra…
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Containers
New by name: China’s latest liner entrant makes waves
One of China’s latest entrants into liner shipping has a name to reflect its status. Newnew Shipping is one of…
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Containers
Goodbye lipstick red, hello baby blue: Hamburg Süd brand fades from view
Goodbye lipstick red, hello baby blue. Maersk’s rebrand of a venerable name in German shipping is seeing an old livery…
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Tankers
Deck blasted into air in aframax explosion
Three crew are presumed dead from Monday’s explosion in Malaysian waters on the 1997-built , an aframax tanker, with a…
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Piracy
Three crew kidnapped from Eagle Bulk ship off Gabon
Three crew were kidnapped yesterday when the , a 2010-supramax belonging to Eagle Bulk, came under attack just after midnight…
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Shipyards
Owners face severe yard bottleneck
Shipowners face a severe shipyard bottleneck if they want to source prompt delivery slots from yards in Asia, a situation…
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Tankers
Tanker with history of moving Iranian oil catches fire off Malaysia
The risk of casualties from the growing so-called dark fleet has manifested in Southeast Asia again where an aframax tanker…
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Africa
Heroic Idun crew released from Nigerian jail after nine-month ordeal
After nine months of incarceration, Nigeria has finally released the crew of the VLCC , who were accused of attempting…
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Middle East
AD Ports enters tanker sector
Rapidly expanding AD Ports Group from Abu Dhabi has entered the tanker sector as well as bolstering its dry bulk…
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Ports and Logistics
Cambodia starts work on tripling its box handling capacity by 2029
Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen was guest of honour yesterday for the groundbreaking of a major new container terminal expansion…
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Ports and Logistics
Port of Aberdeen spending $69m to become UK’s first net zero port
The Scottish port of Aberdeen is targeting net zero emissions from vessels visiting the port, as well as the port’s…
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Containers
Evergreen lines up multi-billion dollar boxship orders
Huge containership orders show no signs of easing, despite the recent slide in earnings for global liners. According to Maersk…
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Europe
Law firm Ince earns a reprieve
UK law firm Ince & Co has won a reprieve. The famous brand in maritime law became insolvent last month…
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Middle East
Seized tanker remains in Iranian waters
The , a suezmax with 24 Indian crew operated by Turkey’s Advantage Tankers, remains at an Iranian anchorage, having been…
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