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MPA and NUS Enterprise launches maritime accelerator programme
Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) and NUE Enterprise, the entrepreneurial arm of the National University of Singapore, has officially…
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K Line top brass face repeated calls for their removal
Once again top brass at Japan’s third largest shipping line, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) are fearing for their jobs…
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CMA CGM and PSA sign digital pact
CMA CGM’s Ze Box and PSA unboXed have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to drive digitalisation and innovation in…
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FueLNG orders LNG bunkering vessel at Keppel
FueLNG, a joint venture between Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) and Shell Eastern Petroleum, has placed an order at…
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Cosco and Mitsubishi to collaborate on scrubber project
Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry Dalian (Cosco Dalian), a subsidiary yard of China Cosco Shipping, has entered into an agreement with…
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Industry still ‘struggling’ with seafarer happiness
The Mission to Seafarers has just published the latest of its ongoing Seafarer Happiness Index reports, which revealed further evidence…
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Hyundai Merchant Marine ordering 20 mega boxships at three domestic yards
South Korea’s Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) is going to order 20 mega containerships at three domestic yards as part of…
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NYK signs up to Internet of Ships Open Platform
Japanese shipping giant Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) has become a core member of an Internet of Ships Open Platform (IoS-OP)…
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Cosco forms tech joint venture with Furuno and Heisei Trading
China Cosco Shipping’s subsidiary Cosco Shipping Technology has signed an agreement with Japanese marine electronics producer Furuno and Japanese trading…
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India’s top container train operator moves into shipping
Container Corporation of India Ltd (Concor), the nation’s top container train operator, is moving into the coastal shipping space at…
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Mermaid Maritime scraps barge pair
Thailand’s Mermaid Maritime has sold barges MTR-1 and MTR-2 to Indian ship recycling firm Star Matrix for $3.8m. MTR-1 is…
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BW LPG moves to acquire Dorian LPG
US-headquartered liquefied petroleum gas company Dorian LPG is subject to a $1.1bn buyout offer from Singapore’s BW LPG. BW LPG…
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Another elderly Polaris VLOC in trouble
South Korean owner Polaris Shipping’s 1994-built very large ore carrier suffered a fire in its engine room off the Brazilian…
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Vitol, StanChart JV orders VLCC quartet
Elandra Tankers, the Singapore-based joint venture between Vitol and Standard Chartered, has inked a contract with South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy…
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NYK creates electronic checklist to enhance condition-based maintenance
An electronic checklist that collects and manages a variety of data through the use of tablet computers is now being…
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Seoul creates special industrial crisis response zones to aid ailing shipbuilders
With more than 100,000 Korean shipbuilders out of work in the past two years, and whole towns devastated by the…
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Dship Carriers orders MPP pair at Taizhou Sanfu, eyes further expansion
Thomas Press owned MPP specialist dship Carriers has ordered a pair of F-500 newbuild multipurpose vessels from China’s Shipbuilding. Delivery…
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AET orders shuttle tanker quartet for Petrobras deal
AET, part of Malaysia’s MISC, has headed to Korea to order four suezmax shuttle tankers after winning a long-term charter…
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Berge Bulk scales up with Matterhorn purchase
Berge Bulk is revealed as the taker of the eight year old cape, , a Dalian-built ship reported sold at…
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H-Line takes another modern cape
Hsin Chien Marine is the second Taiwanese owner in the past fortnight to be offloading relative modern bulkers. Over the…
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