June 1st, 20150Shanghai: CSC Phoenix, the domestic dry bulk shipping arm of the state-owned logistics service provider Sinotrans&CSC Group, has announced that its parent company is...
May 30th, 20150Athens: Antonis Bertsos has resigned as CFO of NewLead Holdings to "pursue other career opportunities", the company said. Bertsos will remain at the company until...
May 29th, 20151Oslo: There is something refreshingly humble and frank about Jens Ismar, the CEO of Western Bulk, a characteristic rather uncommon in the world of shipowning. Take, for...
May 29th, 20150Shanghai: Dry bulk shipping firm Golden Ocean has delayed delivery of 19 newbuild vessels in order to deal with the downturn in the bulk shipping market. The company...
May 29th, 20150Shanghai: China Shipping Haisheng, a listed unit of China Shipping Group, has announced that it is going to dispose of 29-year-old 39,000dwt bulker Chang Bai Shan, which...
May 28th, 20150Tokyo: The 76,000 dwt bulker Million Trader, which had been reported as sold several times this winter, has finally found a buyer. The Japanese owner, Nisshin...
May 28th, 20150Sydney: Foul play was most likely on a vessel dubbed “the death ship”, a court in Australia was told. The Glebe Coroners Court has been trying to determine if the...
May 28th, 20150San Francisco: A bulk carrier loaded with a cargo of sulfur ran aground offshore Port Arthur, Texas, on Wednesday. Jian Qiang (46,807 dwt, built 1996), owned by...
May 28th, 20150New Delhi: On Monday, June 1, industrialist-politician Naveen Jindal will get to know whether he will have to exchange his extravagant lifestyle for the dubious comforts...
May 27th, 20150Sydney: A southern Chinese power company is being sued by the Australian federal government over the grounding of a bulk carrier on the Great Barrier Reef five years...
May 27th, 20150Mumbai: Dry bulk shipping, by way of coking and thermal coal imports into power-starved India, will receive a much-needed fillip with the news that Japanese lending...
Athens: Greek handysize operator FreeSeas has fixed a pair of handysize bulkers on a sale and leaseback deal. A set of unspecified Norwegian investors will take the...
May 26th, 20150Sydney: A seafarer is presumed dead having fallen overboard the Korean controlled K Pride (149,394 dwt; built 1992) on May 14. The incident was only made public last...
May 22nd, 20150Seoul: Fresh from posting its first operating profit in five years, Korea’s Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) looks like it is shelving plans to sell off its dry bulk...
May 22nd, 20150Milan: Paolo Clerici is a well-known name in the international shipping market as chairman of Coeclerici, the Italian group based in Milan focused on coal trading and...
May 22nd, 20150Shanghai: Nanshan Group, a multi-sector enterprise based in Shandong, is planning to enter the shipowning sector to support the coal shipping demand of its electric...
May 22nd, 20150San Francisco: A coal-laden bulker that ran aground and closed part of the Parana River in Argentina, was refloated on Thursday after three days. But traffic on the...
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