Containers
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600,000 containers set to be online soon
Container shipping has reached a point of no return in terms of connectivity with analysts at Sea-Intelligence suggesting the majority…
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Croatia set to welcome 20,000 teu ships
Croatia is set to offer liners the first opportunity to berth their 20,000 teu ships in the northern Adriatic as…
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MSC completes deal for 49% of Messina Group and four conro ships
Gianluigi Aponte’s Italian holding company Marinvest and Messina Group have formally signed an agreement which makes MSC the new owner…
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Global Ship Lease seals news charters with Maersk and MSC
London-based containership owner Global Ship Lease has announced two new charters for two of its vessels, one with Maersk and…
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Weekly Broker: Bullish sentiment buoys tanker prices
Tanker S&P deals continue to accrue at a very solid pace and prices are heading north. Allied Shipbroking’s indicative tanker…
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Maiden voyage for Bertram Rickmers’s new scrubber play
Two years after a humiliating bankruptcy that cost investors $250m, Bertram Rickmers is back, with the first of 10 feeder…
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Cosco containership runs aground in Qinzhou
Cosco Shipping’s 5,089 teu panamax containership has been stranded near Qinzhou Port for the past three days. According to a…
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Evergreen Marine appoints new general manager
Taiwanese shipping line Evergreen Marine has appointed Hsieh Huey-Chuan as the new general manager of the company, replacing Lee Mong-Jye…
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K Line top management forced to defend themselves from irate shareholders again
As has now become tradition in the Japanese summer maritime calendar, for the third straight year top management at Kawasaki…
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Israeli armed forces storm MSC boxship
Israel Defence Forces stormed a boxship anchored off Haifa yesterday after a Turkish immigrant was found to have started a…
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Topouzoglou closes in on FSL Trust buyout
Prime Marine’s Stathis Topouzoglou together with a group of investors is closing in on buying out Singapore’s First Ship Lease…
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Ansheng Shipping sends 12-year old boxship to scrap
Ansheng Shipping, a major domestic container shipping company in China, has sent the 698 teu feedermax boxship Hai Su 10…
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Lines slap war risk surcharges on Venezuela shipments
Shippers must brace for more expensive calls to crisis-hit Venezuela. MSC, the world’s second largest liner, yesterday told clients it…
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India’s Allcargo sells last ship
India’s Allcargo Logistics has quit shipowning and the coastal shipping business with the sale of the last vessel of what…
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Weekly Broker: Improving sentiment drives deals
The general sentiment across the dry bulk market seems to be moving in a positive direction finally with a steady…
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New accounting standards see debt levels among leading liners soar 50%
New accounting standards effective from the start of this year have made for some massive debt increases for the world’s…
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Lawsuits against Antong Holdings stacking up
Antong Holdings, the largest domestic container shipping company in China, is facing an increasing number of lawsuits against the company…
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Shippers can take advantage of BAF variation
Lars Jensen from SeaIntelligence Consulting explains how savvy clients can game sulphur cap surcharges. With the low sulphur rules being…
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Euroseas acquires four feeder boxships from Pittas family
Greek owner Euroseas has signed an MOU to acquire four feeder containerships from the Pittas family and its chairman Aristides…
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Seaspan: LNG diversification
Best known for its pioneering containership investments, Vancouver-based ship lessor Seaspan Corporation is diversifying under new management, with LNG seen…
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