Dry Cargo
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Diana Shipping capesize charter extended by SwissMarine
Greek dry bulk owner Diana Shipping has announced the extension of a time charter contract with SwissMarine Services for 2005-built…
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P&P in for panamax
Brokers inform Splash that Greek owner P&P Shipping was behind the purchase of the , a 2001-built panamax bulker. Earlier…
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Chinese bulker boss sentenced
A court in the UK has sentenced in absence Zhu Guohua to 18 months in jail over a bungled dry…
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Songa Bulk raises $100m from private placement
Arne Blystad’s dry bulk newcomer Songa Bulk has completed a private placement of approximately $100m with the support of new…
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The human touch required in a shipping deal
Simon Francis, founder of online laytime startup Falmor, and a former Levelseas man, brings our shipping/digitisation week of contributions to…
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Scrap more bulkers or face more pain: Precious Shipping
Never a dull read, Thai-listed Precious Shipping’s 26-page annual report, out yesterday and penned by veteran managing director Khalid Hashim,…
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‘Dry bulk asset values still attractive’: Arne Blystad
Songa Bulk, the Norwegian vehicle launched last year, has bagged its fifth ship. Songa Bulk, owned by Arne Blystad and…
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Courage Marine offloads supramax bulker
Taiwan’s Courage Marine has entered into an agreement with Universal Ship Investment to sell 57,000 dwt supramax bulker MV .…
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Winning adds another cape
Winning Shipping’s extraordinary expansion continues briskly into 2017. One of the top five dry bulk buyers in 2016, the Singapore-based…
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Former SAP CEO nominated to chair Maersk
Having helmed one of the world’s largest shipping companies through its greatest corporate restructure in a generation, Michael Pram Rasmussen,…
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Nova Marine fleet soars to 104 with Hartmann quartet
Lugano-based Nova Marine Carriers’ fleet reached 104 units following a new round of shopping completed with the purchase of four…
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Union Maritime proving adept in dry bulk
London-based Union Maritime might be best known as a tanker player but it is also becoming increasingly adept in the…
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Chartworld Shipping orders four bulkers at Jinhai Heavy Industry
Greek owner Chartworld Shipping has signed shipbuilding contracts with HNA-affiliated yard Jinhai Heavy Industry (JHI) for the construction of four…
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Zhejiang Shipping gets cash injection
State-run Zhejiang Shipping has announced that its parent Zhejiang Communications Investment Group has replenished RMB2bn into the company, increasing its…
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Everest scales new heights with VLOC deal
Singapore-based Everest Shipping has been the most aggressive name at the larger end of the dry bulk business in the…
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Essar Shipping in talks for four panamaxes
India’s Essar Shipping is in negotiations for the acquisition of four secondhand panamax vessels in order to meet the growing…
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Hatton quits FSL Trust in latest boardroom spat
Chief executive officer Alan Hatton is the latest in a string of high profile departures from Singapore shipping trust First…
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‘Retirement is not an option for me’: John Fredriksen
Busy as ever, John Fredriksen says he will stay in the day-to-day business of shipping for another three to five…
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Caravel snaps up Diana Shipping panamax on charter
Caravel Shipping has snapped up the 2001-built panamax bulker from Greece’s Diana Shipping. The charter is for a period of…
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Giuseppe Bottiglieri’s mistimed orders led to bankruptcy
Analysts Alphabulk have run the numbers on insolvent Giuseppe Bottiglieri Shipping (GBS) and shown how badly the Italian firm read the…
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