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Wood Group awarded Woodside engineering support contract
UK-headquartered Wood Group has been awarded a contract by Australia’s Woodside to provide engineering support for the subsea pipeline system…
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Ocean Rig wins Nasdaq reprieve
Ocean Rig has won a reprieve from the Nasdaq and will be able to carry on trading shares in New…
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Panama ditches Taiwan and forms diplomatic ties with China
In diplomatic news that could have far bigger ramifications for shipping than the current Qatar spat, Panama has established diplomatic…
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K Line top brass fight for survival ahead of crunch shareholder vote
Senior management at Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line), Japan’s third largest line, have hit out at detractors planning a shareholder…
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SM Line takes on one of its largest ships to date
SM Line, part of South Korea’s Samra Midas Group and one of the fastest growing containership owners in the world,…
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MSC advises on trio of chartered Rickmers ships
Following the insolvency of the Rickmers Group MSC has advised it has three vessels from Rickmers under time charter, namely…
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Cosco buys into SIPG and two Spanish box ports
Cosco Shipping bolstered its ports footprint yesterday, moving to take a 15% stake in Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) as…
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Erasmus Shipinvest in for panamax
Erasmus Shipinvest, led by John Su, is in for its third ship purchase of the year. The oufit is said…
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Star Bulk acquires secondhand supramax bulker
Greek owner Star Bulk Carriers has acquired a six-year-old Chinese-built supramax bulker. The 56,582 dwt bulker, built at Jiangsu Hantong…
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LA and Long Beach set zero-emission targets
The mayors of Los Angeles and of Long Beach have jointly signed a statement setting zero emissions goals for their…
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Ocean Yield snaps up BP PSV pair
Norway’s Ocean Yield has acquired a pair of 2014-built platform supply vessels from BP Shipping for $105.4m. The vessels, NS…
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Kim Heng enters OSV sector with triple Swiber AHTS acquisition
Singapore’s Kim Heng Offshore & Marine has completed a well-timed entry into offshore support vessel ownership with the purchase of…
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Singapore refinery fire extinguished after two hours
Emergency services were called out to Jurong Island in Singapore after another fire at one of the republic’s refineries. Firefighters…
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Odfjell Drilling semi-sub finds more work with Wellesley
Odfjell Drilling has been awarded a contract by Wellesley Petroleum utilising semi-submersible . The rig has been awarded a one…
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Death toll rises to three from blast on drillship offshore Brazil
The death toll from a blast on a Petrobras drillship offshore Brazil has risen to three. A boiler explosion occurred…
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Cape targets hove out of view again for Hunter Maritime
Hunter Maritime Acquisition Corp has ditched another bid for a bunch of capesizes. The bulker bargain vehicle created by the…
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SAAM acquires complete control of Chilean port
Chilean multinational port services company SAAM has taken 100% control of Iquique Terminal Internacional (ITI) – the main port terminal…
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Location, location, location
In his ongoing series for Splash looking at how to conduct business in China, Charlie Du Cane, the head of…
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Reach Subsea to expand fleet for new contract
Norwegian owner Reach Subsea has been awarded a letter of intent from a European contractor. The project will commence in…
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Chinese to expand Dar es Salaam port
Tanzania’s government has signed a $154m contract on Saturday with state-run China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) to expand the main…
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