October 18th, 20190Slow steaming regulation has been holed below the waterline with Greece jumping ship ahead of imminent discussions at the International Maritime Organization (IMO)...
October 18th, 20190Nearly two thirds of Splash voters in an ongoing poll believe shipping is at the the end of the ‘gut feel’ freight market and the start of the data-driven...
October 18th, 20190China's largest steel producer Baowu Steel Group has signed a series of strategic agreements with Brazilian miner Vale to explore partnerships in various areas. Under...
October 18th, 20190Dutch dredging and subsea specialist Royal Boskalis Westminster has partnered with GoodFuels to unveil Boskalis vessel as the first dredging vessel in the world to...
October 17th, 20190Tanker prices have leapt across the board this week due to the hot chartering market and a shortage of available tonnage on the market. Data from Braemar ACM shows...
October 17th, 20190Greek owner Chartworld Shipping and its affiliate company Nederland Shipping pled guilty in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, to failing to notify the U.S. Coast...
October 16th, 20190Shenzhen-listed bulk commodity trader Zheshang Development has announced a plan to acquire Zhejiang Shipping Group from its controlling shareholder Zhejiang...
October 15th, 20190The Singapore Shipping Association (SSA) has detailed work it is carrying out with with the world’s largest business organisation, the International Chamber of...
October 15th, 20190Mitsui OSK Lines, Japan’s largest shipowner, has upped its wind power ambitions, joining the International Windship Association (IWSA), and pushing ahead with the...
October 15th, 20190Singapore's BW Group has announced that it has completed the sale of up to 7m common shares in BW LPG for NOK58.5 ($6.41) per share. The company retained...
October 14th, 20190The , an Iranian suezmax attacked on Friday morning in the Red Sea off Jeddah, has left a trail of oil as it sailed more than 500 miles over the weekend towards Eritrea...
October 14th, 201929I recently came across a job advert for a third officer by one of the UK’s major maritime industry recruiters, Faststream Recruitment. The advert offers the...
October 14th, 20191Salvage experts in the US have decided it’s too difficult to right and refloat the , which capsized five weeks ago in St Simons Sound in Georgia. Instead, an operation...
October 14th, 20190Two workers died from inhaling toxic gas at a shipbreaking yard in Bangladesh on Saturday. According to local reports, the incident happened at OWW shipbreaking yard...
October 14th, 20191The industry’s obsession with digitalisation risks undervaluing the human factor, writes Julie Lithgow from the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, in a preview of a...
October 11th, 201914MarineLink’s Jack Brabban argues today for a significant overhaul in ship operations. Superintendents have a critical role in shipping. Oddly, in an era of squeezed...
October 11th, 20190Van Dam Shipping has signed a contract for the installation of an eConowind supplied wind assisted propulsion system on its 3,600 dwt general cargo vessel . The Spijk,...
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