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Shoei Kisen offloads another handy bulker
Japanese shipping giant Shoei Kisen continues to prune its stock of handy bulkers, offloading the 2008-built, 28,300 dwt to little…
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Port restrictions ratchet up and offshore rigs are evacuated as Irma heads towards Florida
With Hurricane Irma still on track to make landfall in southern Florida at the weekend, the process of preparation was…
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Six injured as poorly loaded cargo tilts ship onto berth
Six men were injured yesterday when a Vietnamese general cargo ship tilted to starboard while being loaded at Visakhapatnam Port…
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Malaysians congratulated for quick piracy response
Masafumi Kuroki, executive director, at the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP)…
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Congress prepares to hear damning report into US Navy training standards
The dire state of the US Navy’s training set up has been laid bare in a damning report from the…
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HMM completes its first blockchain pilot voyage
South Korea’s Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) has become the latest containerline to highlight its foray into blockchain. The company revealed…
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Braemar buys Hamburg financier
Braemar Shipping Services continues to diversify its business suite. Best known as a shipbroker, Braemar has today revealed it has…
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Mercator Lines to be wound up
The bust Singapore dry bulk offshoot of India’s Mercator Group will be no more come Friday. Mercator Lines (Singapore) went…
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New IACS chairman promises to gear class up for the digital era
Speaking at a press conference in London on Wednesday, the new chairman of the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS),…
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Activity along ice-free Northern Sea Route picks up
Russia’s Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute has stated that the whole Northern Sea Route is now ice-free. The institute shows…
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SolstadFarstad sells three AHTS vessels to Brazilian navy
Norwegian OSV giant SolstadFarstad has sold three anchor handling tug supply vessels to the Brazilian Navy via a public auction…
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Mermaid Maritime wins new contracts for DSV pair
Thailand’s Mermaid Maritime has won new contracts for two of its dive support vessels, for work in Southeast Asia and…
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Shipping can learn from the Korean mess
When one looks at the current problems between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States of…
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Keppel signs up for Indonesian LNG distribution
Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine Limited (Keppel O&M) has entered into a heads of agreement (HOA) with compatriot Pavilion Energy…
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A2SEA secures work at Merkur
Danish offshore wind installation service provider A2SEA has secured a contract to install 66 transition pieces at the Merkur Offshore…
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Wood Group awarded subsea engineering contract at Ichthys
UK offshore engineering specialist Wood Group has secured a five-year contract with INPEX Operations Australia to provide subsea engineering services…
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All bar four of Texas’ major refineries are at some stage of restarting in wake of Harvey
All but four of Texas’ major refineries are at some stage of restarting following shutdowns caused by the devastating passage…
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Maritime security transit corridor formed off the Horn of Africa
The Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), a multinational naval partnership founded in 2002, to keep tradelanes safe off the Horn of…
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Petrojet and Rosetti Marino in talks for a new shipyard in Alexandria
Italy’s Rosetti Marino shipyard and Egyptian state-run EPC contractor Petrojet are in advanced discussions with a view to launching a…
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Venezuela arrests a PDVSA regional boss and eight other employees
Venezuelan authorities have arrested a top man in state oil firm PDVSA along with eight other executives at the company,…
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