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Philippine authority requests to siphon oil from sunken ship
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources of Philippines has declared that the sunken site of general cargo ship is…
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Crane collapses at Falmouth Docks
A crane collapsed at Falmouth Docks in Cornwall in the southwest of the UK this morning. A ship under repair…
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UAE firm proposes towing icebergs home to help fight freshwater shortages
Coming over five weeks since April Fool’s Day, news reaches Splash of an Abu Dhabi firm that has come up…
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Haydn waltzes from one Hamburg owner to another
The 3,534 teu boxship has been sold by Hansa Shipping to Nordic Hamburg. The 2010-buit ship fetched a price of…
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Macoil in for Turkish tanker
Turkey’s Solimar Navigation has sold the , a small, 12-year-old product tanker, to Greece’s Macoil. Brokers indicate a price of…
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SM Line builds up fleet in ‘record time’
SM Line, the new Korean box shipping firm, is creating records in the speed of its fleet build up. Analysts…
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Yara and Kongsberg to build autonomous and zero emissions feeder boxship
Norwegian fertilizer producer Yara International and compatriot maritime technology firm Kongsberg have formed a partnership to build an autonomous and…
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ICBC Financial Leasing applies to wind up EMAS Offshore subsidiary
Singapore offshore vessel operator EMAS Offshore has announced that Hai Jiang 1401, a special purpose vehicle controlled by China’s ICBC…
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Idemitsu Kosan and Showa Shell form VLCC alliance
Two Japanese oil companies Idemitsu Kosan and Showa Shell have formed an alliance yesterday to cooperate on a series of…
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More dry bulk disruption coming from digitisation
The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has sent a note to clients on key takeaways from last month’s Singapore Iron Ore Week…
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Genco eyes M&As
Genco Shipping & Trading has come out on the warpath for more bulker tonnage. Despite losing $15.6m in the first…
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Nestoil takes Frontline VLCC for floating storage
Nigeria’s Nestoil has been revealed as the buyer of the VLCC and sources tell Splash the tanker will now be…
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Meratus Line buys its biggest boxships to date
Meratus Line, an Indonesian domestic carrier, has bought its largest boxships to date. The line bought a pair of 2,474…
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Posidonia out in front as the one must-attend event in the shipping calendar
With five days until voting closes in our latest survey, the organisers of Posidonia, the biennial Greek shipping event, are…
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Navios Maritime Partners adds another capesize
Navios Maritime Partners has picked up its fifth vessel addition for the year, acquiring a six-year-old South Korean-built capesize for…
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Hyperloop flies into Nor-Shipping
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), the company leading the charge to realise the concept of transporting people and cargo safely, efficiently…
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Vopak and AltaGas to develop propane export terminal in British Columbia
Netherlands-based Royal Vopak and Canadian natural gas distribution firm AltaGas are teaming up in a joint venture to develop the…
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Petrobras says injunction against its sale of fuel distribution arm has been thrown out by a judge
Brazil’s corruption-racked and debt-laden state oil firm Petrobras said on Monday that a federal court had thrown out an injunction…
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Denmark sends plane back to Horn of Africa to combat rising piracy threat
The Danish government is deploying a Challenger airplane to support maritime security in the Horn of Africa. Additionally, the government…
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Pilot in the spotlight as investigations continue into Dubai’s spectacular crane accident
Investigations are ongoing into Thursday’s miraculous crane collapse at DP World’s flagship Jebel Ali terminal. One giant gantry crane collapsed…
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