April 9th, 20200Single-decker ship , controlled by the Ukrainian company MD Shipping, caught fire yesterday while transiting in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, some 180 miles off...
April 9th, 20200Singapore shipmanagement firm Norstar Ship Management (NSM) has appointed Lars Grünitz as its new managing director, replacing Christopher Kirton who Splash understands...
April 8th, 20203Jean-Emmanuel Sauvée, the 55-year-old head of cruise line Ponant, has been elected president of Armateurs de France, the French shipowners association. He takes over...
April 8th, 20201Pacific Basin, Hong Kong’s largest shipowner by fleet number, is putting the brakes on fleet expansion plans. In a release to the local stock exchange, the dry bulk...
April 8th, 20200China has a new roro operator based out of Shanghai. The nation’s largest automobile supply chain company, Changjiu Logistics, has teamed with Beijing Glovis...
April 7th, 20200RightShip, the maritime risk due diligence and environmental assessment organisation, and the independent civil society charity, Human Rights at Sea, have signed a new...
April 7th, 20202The master and crew onboard the , at the centre of a week-long coronavirus-linked standoff in Bangladesh waters, have negotiated the details for the safe offload of the...
April 6th, 20204Crew changes and ship deliveries in Japan just got a whole lot more challenging with the government issuing extraordinary travel bans on Friday covering 73 nations,...
April 6th, 20200The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is easing its crew change restrictions, much to the relief of thousands of seafarers across the world. In a circular, the UAE’s...
April 6th, 20203Today sees the launch of a charity crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for developing world seafarers and their families that have been severely impacted by the...
April 6th, 20202Many ship waste systems allow potentially hazardous food waste to disappear into sewage and grey water, by design and with approval, in contravention of IMO and national...
April 3rd, 20202The European Commission has suspended screening of the merger between major South Korean shipbuilders Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine...
April 3rd, 202012CMA CGM has ships heading via the Cape of Good Hope in both directions from and to Asia and Europe, giving the Suez Canal a miss, Spash can exclusively reveal. The...
April 3rd, 20201European shipowners have urgently called on governments and Brussels to adopt a targeted rescue and recovery plan for the maritime sector, which is now inching close to...
April 3rd, 20200One of the best known names in shipbroking has suggested the lifecycle of ships is set to get a whole lot shorter. Tim Jones, chairman of BRS Group, writing the...
April 3rd, 20202Alfonso Castillero from the Liberian Registry on the need for authorities across the board to collaborate to see us through this crisis. We are in uncharted waters....
April 3rd, 20200The Norwegian Shipowners' Association has elected Paul-Christian Rieber as its new president. Rieber is the chairman of GC Rieber Shipping, and he replaces Klaveness...
