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Seaboard and BBC Chartering seek joint Americas coverage

October 17th, 20180 American carrier Seaboard Marine and German heavylift giant BBC Chartering are looking to pool their respective multipurpose services connecting the US Gulf with the...

Americas

Ulstein gets in on the Jones Act with Aeolus Energy SOV deal

October 17th, 20181 Florida based renewable energy specialist Aeolus Energy has awarded a contract to Ulstein to design the first ever Jones Act compliant offshore wind service operations...

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Intel chips in on Rolls-Royce’s autonomous shipping drive

October 16th, 20180 Rolls-Royce and Intel are teaming up to develop autonomous ships. The new vessels the pair aim to develop will have systems with the same technology found in smart...

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Noble Corporation secures two drillship contracts

October 12th, 20180 Offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation has secured two new rig contracts according to the company’s latest fleet status report. The company’s 2013-built...

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LLOG orders floating production system at Hyundai Heavy Industries

October 11th, 20180 US exploration and production company LLOG Exploration has placed an order at South Korean shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) for the construction of a...

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Maersk and Oaktree invest in digital freight broker

October 10th, 20180 Loadsmart, a New York-headquartered digital freight broker, has raised $21.6m in series A funding led by Maersk Growth, Connor Capital SB and Chromo Invest. This brings...

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Hadjipateras fires back as Sohmen-Pao spat rumbles on

October 9th, 20180 Determined to have the last word in the four-month takeover tussle between BW LPG and Dorian LPG, John Hadjipateras, Dorian’s boss, has responded to his counterpart,...

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BW LPG ditches Dorian takeover

October 9th, 20180 Andreas Sohmen-Pao’s BW LPG has pulled out of a proposed $1.1bn merger with rival Dorian LPG after months of back and forth bickering between the pair. Citing...

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Hunter Maritime to merge with Chinese fintech company

October 8th, 20180 Hunter Maritime Acquisition Corporation, a dry bulk vehicle created by the Saverys family two years ago, has entered into a definitive agreement to complete a business...

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Hornbeck and Gulf Island to go to court over cancellation

October 5th, 20180 Hornbeck Offshore has had a lawsuit filed against it by Gulf Islands Shipyards over the termination of contracts for the final two vessels in Hornbeck's fifth OSV...

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Aker Solutions wins Petrobras subsea contract

October 5th, 20180 Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract by Petrobras to provide a subsea production system for the Mero 1 project at the Mero field development in Brazil's pre-salt...

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SAExploration lands $100m South Asian contract

October 5th, 20180 Houston-based seismic data specialist SAExploration Holdings has been awarded a new marine project in South Asia by a major national oil company. SAExploration will...

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Seaspan rescues Swiber with $200m investment

October 4th, 20180 Singapore’s Swiber Group has been saved by Seaspan, the Canadian containership operator, which is making what it says will be a one-off investment in the offshore...

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Uljanik’s crisis deepens as Algoma cancel another shipbuilding contract

October 4th, 20180 Pula-based shipyard Uljanik has lost another shipbuilding contract as the Canadian group Algoma Central Corporation officially unilaterally rescinded the contract for...

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Subsea 7 and OneSubsea awarded Gulf of Mexico contract

October 3rd, 20180 Norwegian offshore service provider Subsea 7 has announced the award of a major contract by Fieldwood Energy to Subsea Integration Alliance, a global partnership between...

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Rosco fleet up for sale again
Chinese owner Rewood Ocean Shipping (Rosco) has listed its entire fleet for sale again, having... Oct 17th, 2018 inDry Cargo
Oltmann makes KG return
A decade since it last dabbled in the KG markets, Germany’s Oltmann Group has launched a new... Oct 17th, 2018 inEurope
V.Group acquires Norddeutsche Reederei H. Schuldt
Shipmanagement giant V.Group continues its growth by acquisition strategy, signing a deal with... Oct 17th, 2018 inOperations
Formosa Plastics pushes ahead with fleet clearout
Taiwanese conglomerate Formosa Plastics is having a fleet clearout with a host of different ship... Oct 17th, 2018 inGreater China
ONE set for singularly awful first year with $600m loss
Carrier consolidation can prove tricky as evidenced today with news of a massive revision of... Oct 16th, 2018 inContainers

Pressure grows on next week’s MEPC in London

More than 80,000 hit by German box leasing Ponzi scheme

Diana Shipping kamsarmax charter extended by Glencore

DeepOcean awarded Australian contract

Seafarer dies after falling from CSL bulker

Seaboard and BBC Chartering seek joint Americas coverage

Ulstein gets in on the Jones Act with Aeolus Energy SOV deal

Intel chips in on Rolls-Royce’s autonomous shipping drive

Pilot in hot water over last year’s most watched shipping accident

Gulf Energy Maritime puts its handysize tankers up for sale

Gulf Marine Services secures liftboat contract

Höegh LNG vessel to leave Egypt

Protests ring out at deadly Gadani

Japanese owners pile in for LPG carriers

Adani and Total partner up to develop LNG terminals

ONE set for singularly awful first year with $600m loss

Rizhao Port sets up logistics jv with Cosco

Rosco fleet up for sale again

Formosa Plastics pushes ahead with fleet clearout

Minsheng Financial Leasing snaps up five PIL boxships

Seafarer dies after falling from CSL bulker