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Laugfs Maritime buys second LPG carrier
Laugfs Maritime Services, the shipping division of Sri Lanka’s Laugfs Gas, has bought its second LPG carrier. The 3,500 cu…
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Pemex extends with Fugro
Dutch geotechnical specialist Fugro has announced that Mexican oil national Pemex has extended a contract with the firm for an…
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Livestock carrier capsizes leaving cattle stranded
A livestock carrier capsized and sank while berthed at Porto Vila do Conde in Barcarena, Brazil, leaving cattle stranded on…
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El Faro’s captain had a plan to avoid Hurricane Joaquin
Executives from Tote Maritime say the captain of the missing containership El Faro had a “sound plan” to navigate around…
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Piraeus port privatisation delayed
The sale of a 51% stake in Piraeus Port Authority to private investors has been delayed by around 20 days,…
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Another PSV laid up, latest fixtures show rock-bottom rates
The 2013-built platform supply vessel (PSV) FC Untouchable (3,300 dwt), owned by Fratelli D’Amato UK, has gone into layup in…
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Denmark pushes for other nations to beef up anti-piracy patrols
Denmark will remain committed to patrolling the seas in anti-piracy operations, and is pushing other larger nations to commit too.…
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Intermarine adds six more in China
American breakbulk player Intermarine is ordering six 13,300 dwt ships in China. The ships come equipped with two cranes with…
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Damen buys Rotterdam yard
Damen Shiprepair & Conversion (DSC) has taken over Dutch repair yard D. van de Wetering in Rotterdam, one of the…
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Daiichi Chuo rehabilitation process gets underway
Yesterday saw a Japanese court give Daiichi Chuo Kisen Kaisha the go ahead to start its rehabilitation process. The bulker…
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New CEO for Wood Group
UK-based energy services company Wood Group has appointed Robin Watson as chief executive officer effective January 1 2016 succeeding Bob…
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Mexican officials find nearly 170kg of cocaine in container on MOL boxship
Mexican authorities have taken possession of a big cocaine haul found in a container at the Port of Manzanillo, it…
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BP’s bill for Deepwater Horizon disaster grows by 11%
The bill keeps climbing for BP when it comes to costs incurred from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, with the…
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Columbia River diesel spill cleanup completed
Cleanup of a 1,000-gallon diesel fuel spill in the Columbia River was completed on Monday, four days after the incident…
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US court throws curveball in ballast water treatment debate
The future of ballast water treatment systems has been thrown into further confusion following a ruling from a federal appeals…
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40-year-old El Faro suffered mechanical failure as Hurricane Joaquin approached
The head of the shipping line that operated the ill fated El Faro has said the 40-year-old ship suffered mechanical…
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Wallem closes HK shipbroking division
Hong Kong’s Wallem Group has closed its shipbroking department at its headquarters. “The dry cargo markets remain challenging and the…
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K Line LNG carrier collides with Dutch vessel off Zeebrugge
A Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) LNG carrier smashed into a small Dutch general cargo vessel off the Belgian coast…
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Danish Maritime: ‘Priorities must be given to first movers’
Copenhagen: People coming to Copenhagen this week for the 80-plus events clustered around Danish Maritime Days will hear a lot…
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Danish shipowner boss weighs into Med migrant crisis
Merchant ships should not be tasked with picking migrants out of the Mediterranean, the director-general of the Danish Shipowners’ Association…
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