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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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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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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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Total and Pavilion to offer LNG bunkering from Singapore
Total Marine Fuels Global Solutions and Pavilion Gas have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on LNG bunkering cooperation in…
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Polaris under fire for slow response to VLOC’s disappearance
The search for the missing VLOC and 22 out of its 24 crew continues with more ships drafted in to…
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14,000 teu MSC vessel on fire off Colombo
The Indian navy has been drafted in to help Sri Lankan authorities fight a huge fire that erupted late last…
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Icon Offshore secures PSV contract from Halliburton
Malaysian OSV operator Icon Offshore has been awarded a contract by Halliburton Energy Services for the provision of a platform…
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Vantage Drilling gets jackup extension from CPOC
Vantage Drilling jackup rig has been awarded a nine-month extension by Carigali-PTTEP Operating Company (CPOC) for operations in Malaysia and…
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KS Drilling finds Vietnam work for jackup
Singapore offshore firm KS Energy has announced that subsidiary KS Drilling has been awarded a contract for jackup rig .…
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Hopes fade in search mission for missing Stellar Daisy crew
The two rescued survivors of the VLOC , which apparently sank in the South Atlantic on Friday, have told their…
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Adani eyes Malaysian ports scene
India’s Adani Group has signed an MoU with Malaysia’s MMC Port Holdings with an eye to entering the Southeast Asian…
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Search efforts continue as 22 feared dead from VLOC sinking
The search continued on Sunday for survivors of the very large ore carrier which is believed to have sunk in…
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MOL boss rings the changes, vows to ‘reshape’ business portfolio
Speaking on the occasion of Mitsui OSK Lines’ 133rd anniversary, Junichiro Ikeda, the president and CEO of the shipping giant…
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Kawasaki Heavy to slash 30% of Japanese staff
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) is downsizing its shipbuilding and offshore structure operations in Japan by around 30% amid a protracted…
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Dealing with the fallout from EMAS and Ezra’s Chapter 11 filing
The latest victims of the prolonged downturn in the offshore, marine and oil and gas sectors, Singapore-based Ezra Holdings and…
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US judge rules in Keppel’s favour over Petrobras bribery links
A court in the US has thrown out a case linking Singapore’s Keppel Corporation to the massive bribery case that…
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Mitsubishi Heavy to collaborate with Imabari and Namura
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has reached basic agreements with fellow Japanese yards Imabari Shipbuilding and Namura Shipbuilding in the wake…
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VLOC sinks in the South Atlantic
A very large ore carrier (VLOC) belonging to South Korea’s Polaris Shipping is believed to have sunk off Uruguay. Crew…
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Crews warned of armed threat off the southern Philippines
An in-depth 29-page report from Asia-based piracy information centre, ReCAAP ISC warns today that the situation off the southern Philippines…
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HMM in for up to 10 VLCCs
Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) is readying to launch a tender for its first new ship orders in four years with…
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