Europe
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European Investment Bank teams with ABN AMRO to support green shipping investments
The European Investment Bank and ABN AMRO have signed an agreement to support investments for greening the European shipping fleet.…
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Metrostar Management orders two aframax tankers at Daehan
Greek owner Metrostar Management has placed orders for two aframax tankers at South Korean yard Daehan Shipbuilding. It is Metrostar’s…
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Neda joins Greek VLCC rush
The Greek rush for cheap VLCC newbuilds continues. Brokers report Neda Maritime Agency has contracted Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) to…
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Holed Knutsen LNG carrier heads for Cebu for repairs
The Spanish flagged 173,400 cu m will dock in Cebu in the central Philippines today to undergo extensive repairs having…
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G2 Ocean to officially start work on Labour Day
G2 Ocean, the joint venture of Gearbulk and Grieg Star, will start operating on May 1, seven months after the…
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Inmarsat: Shipping lines unprepared for cyber breaches
Most shipowners today have not conducted comprehensive risk analysis to cyber breaches leaving the global merchant fleet very exposed to…
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Shearwater GeoServices awarded seismic contract
GC Rieber Shipping has announced that its 50% owned geoservices company Shearwater GeoServices has received an award from TGS for…
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Janchart Shipping expands fleet with handy bulker buy
Danish owner Janchart Shipping has acquired the 2009-built handy bulker from Japanese owner Orient Marine. According to broking sources, the…
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Concordia and Stena Weco take MR pair on charter
Concordia Maritime has signed a contract for the chartering of two IMO2/3 class MR tankers. This a joint chartering arrangement…
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Danish owners lobby government to make nation more of a shipping powerhouse
Today, after almost a year’s work the maritime task force of the Danish government presented its policy recommendations to the…
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Rickmers Maritime wind up process sees Navios take entire fleet for $113m
Navios Maritime Partners has given Rickmers Maritime a hand to speed up its winding up process with an agreement to…
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Sumitomo opens chartering desk in Amsterdam
Japanese trading house giant Sumitomo Corporation has opened a dry bulk chartering office in Amsterdam. The new entity is called…
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Benetech Shipping acquires tanker pair from HMM
Greek owner Benetech Shipping has acquired two MR2 tankers from South Korean owner Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM). According to broking…
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Siem Offshore wins series of new contracts
Norway’s Siem Offshore has announced a series of new contracts across its fleet. Anchor handling tug supply vessels Siem Aquamarine…
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Noble Corporation cold stacks drillship
Noble Corporation is going to cold stack drillship as it has no work lined up for the vessel. According to…
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Fredriksen fails to halt DHT’s takeover of BW’s VLCCs
John Fredriksen’s bid to thwart DHT Holdings taking on the 11-strong VLCC fleet belonging to BW Group looks like it…
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Bertram Rickmers willing to relinquish control to save company
Bertram Rickmers has pledged to relinquish control of Rickmers Holding in a restructuring bid to stave off creditors. Rickmers Holding…
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Two arrests at RINA over alleged irregular certifications
Two inspectors at RINA, the Italian classification society, have been arrested today over irregular certifications to ferries and cargo ships…
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DryShips snaps up another kamsarmax
Greek shipowner DryShips has continued its fleet build up with the acquisition of another secondhand kamsarmax bulker. The 2014-built vessel…
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Fredriksen sues DHT
Norway’s richest man, John Fredriksen, is known on home soil as Big Wolf and even at the age of 72…
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