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Major boxship fire occurs every 60 days
Insurer TT Club is pushing for greater scrutiny of dangerous goods carriage onboard boxships, warning that there is now a…
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Cockett Group: IMO 2020 compliance guide launches today
Today sees the launch of a special IMO 2020 compliance guide published by sister title Maritime CEO in association with…
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Weekly Broker: Buying for a rebound
The buying appetite in the bulker sale and purchase market shows no sign of abating with a raft of concluded…
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Cambodia negotiating powership contract with Karadeniz
Amid a severe power shortage across the country, the head of Cambodia’s Electricite du Cambodge (EDC) has flown to Turkey…
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Isle of Man announces successor to Dick Welsh
The Isle of Man is promoting from within at its fast growing flag. Cameron Mitchell, currently deputy director, will step…
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Zeaborn: Germany’s shipping consolidator
Zeaborn, Germany’s chief consolidator of shipping lines, is looking to further strengthen its position as one of the leading fully…
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Ship capsizes at Iranian port
Poor communication between staff offloading boxes onshore and onboard has been cited for yesterday’s dramatic capsizing and sinking of the…
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Former China Shipping Industry executive charged for corruption
A local People’s Procuratorate in Jiangsu has filed criminal charges against Wang Yiling, former vice general manager of China Shipping…
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Shandong Shipping seeks overseas listing
Chinese state-run shipping firm Shandong Shipping has applied to terminate its listing on the National Equities Exchange and Quotations (NEEQ),…
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BigLift and Chung Yang partner up in heavylift shipping
Dutch heavy lift shipping specialist BigLift Shipping has entered into an agreement with South Korea’s Chung Yang Shipping to collaborate…
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ExxonMobil’s 0.5% fuel will be on sale from Q3 this year
ExxonMobil has revealed its low sulphur bunker fuel will be available from the third quarter of this year, joining the…
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Brazilian authorities suspend Vale’s operations at Timbopeba
A Brazilian court has ordered mining giant Vale to suspend operations at its Timbopeba min, after a legal case was…
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Wilhelmsen and Airbus trial world’s first commercial drone deliveries to vessels at anchorage
Launching this week in partnership with Airbus, Wilhelmsen’s shore-to-ship Singapore pilot project, marks the first deployment of drone technology in…
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France braces for oil slick to wash ashore near Bordeaux
French authorities are bracing for a sizeable oil slick to hits its southwestern coast near Bordeaux on the weekend following…
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Weekly Broker: Bulker bargain hunt grows
With the industry increasingly comfortable that the worst is over for dry bulk, especially sub-cape size, there has been a…
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Ningbo Marine coal carrier hit by gravel barge near Wenzhou
General cargo vessel Ming Zhou 66 and gravel barge Hong Cheng Yun 3 collided near Wenzhou in the East China…
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Call for enforcement of ship wastewater discharge performance
German wastewater treatment specialist ACO Marine, together with a group of competing wastewater treatment system manufacturers and environmental organisations, has…
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Burning Grimaldi conro Grande America sinks off France
A day after it caught fire off France, the Grimaldi Group-controlled conro vessel has sunk in the Bay of Biscay.…
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Authorities order temporary shut down of Vale’s Guaíba Island Terminal
Brazilian miner Vale has received a notice from the Mangaratiba city government in Rio de Janeiro, ordering the temporary suspension…
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How to make accommodation blocks more liveable – part two
Peter Gartsjö from PG Marine continues to look into how conditions at sea can be made more comfortable. In 1976…
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