Middle East
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Burnt New Diamond leaves Sri Lanka and heads to the UAE
Sri Lanka has allowed the burnt VLCC to leave the country and head to the Khorfakkan in the United Arab…
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ADNOC Logistics and Services secures 25-year service contract
Adnoc Logistics and Services (Adnoc L&S), the shipping and maritime logistics unit of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, has secured…
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Milaha and Schlumberger to build well stimulation vessel as part of new cooperation agreement
Qatar maritime and logistics firm Milaha has signed a formal cooperation agreement with US oilfield services firm Schlumberger. The agreement…
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Abu Dhabi Ports takes over MICCO Logistics
Abu Dhabi Ports has acquired MICCO Logistics as part of ongoing efforts to enhance its status as an international hub…
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Polarcus stacks vessel redelivered by Sovcomflot
Dubai-headquartered seismic specialist Polarcus has taken redelivery of 2012-built survey vessel from Sovcomflot and immediate stacked the vessel, now renamed…
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Oil spot spotted near decaying laden FSO off Yemen
Saudi Arabia has warned the United Nations it has detected an “oil spot” near the decrepit, abandoned floating storage tanker…
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Maersk opens up box link between Israel and the UAE
Maersk, the world’s largest containerline, is to ship boxes between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as ties between…
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ZIM enters the Australian trades
Israeli carrier ZIM is entering the Asia – Australia trades. The China Australia Express will launch in the middle of…
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Before the blast
Ian Urbina, the New York Times investigative reporter and author of the bestseller The Outlaw Ocean, writes for Splash today,…
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DP World in historic bid to run a port in Israel
The remarkable thawing of ties between some Middle Eastern nations and Israel has led to an unexpected port development with…
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Thousands mobilise in bid to try and save the 40 missing men from the Gulf Livestock 1
Thousands of people around the world are joining together to get more nations involved in the search operation for the…
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MSC’s secondhand splurge continues
Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) is busy scouring the market for secondhand tonnage. Brokers Braemar ACM link the Aponte family controlled…
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Operation to find Gulf Livestock 1’s VDR on the cards
New Zealand’s minister of foreign affairs, Winston Peters, has backed calls to mount an operation to retrieve the voyage data…
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Shelf Drilling terminates bareboat charter agreements with China Merchants
Dubai-based Shelf Drilling has announced that it has terminated agreements with an affiliate of China Merchants & Great Wall Ocean Strategy…
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Families of the missing Gulf Livestock 1 crew urge authorities to resume search operation
Families of the missing crew on the sunk have urged authorities to resume their search and rescue operations. The Gulf…
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Another giant fire breaks out at Beirut port
Another noxious fire has broken out at Beirut port. Splash understands a warehouse containing oil and tyres at Beirut port…
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Search for missing Gulf Livestock 1 crew ends
The search off southern Japan for the missing crew from the has been called off. The converted livestock carrier was…
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FSO Safer – a ticking bomb
Author Carlos Luxul flinches at the dangerous prospect of a severe disaster off Yemen. An environmental time bomb is ticking…
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Cypriot shipping entrepreneur fights to clear his name from Beirut port blast
Charalambos Manoli, the Cypriot shipping entrepreneur, has hired a local communications consultancy to try and clear his name from links…
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Search resumes as final moments emerge of stricken livestock carrier off Japan
The Japanese Coast Guard resumed aerial search operations for missing crewmembers of the today after a typhoon-hit weekend made search…
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