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What’s killing our seafarers?
It is easy to forget the strength and brute force that the ocean can render. Few appreciate this more than…
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Weekly Broker: Bulker feast
The secondhand bulker sale and purchase market in the past week has turned to a feast for owners who are…
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Capital opts for scrubbers on its larger ships, charges HMM $4,900 a day premium for 5,000 teu quintet
Evangelos Marinakis’s Capital Product Partners become the latest big name in shipping to hedge their bets and invest in scrubbers…
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Seanergy seals capesize scrubber deals with charterers
Greek dry bulk owner Seanergy Maritime Holdings has entered into agreements for the installation of scrubbers on five of its…
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Hijackings proliferate around West Africa
Details are emerging of further West African hijackings, this time further south than other recent incidents. The tanker Anuket Amber…
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Fire erupts as ferry slams into crane at Barcelona port
Firefighters rushed to the port of Barcelona this morning as a ferry operated by Italy’s Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) slammed…
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Volumes shipped along Russia’s Northern Sea Route more than quintuple in five years
The volume of cargo shipped along Russia’s Northern Sea Route this year is set to be up more than five-fold…
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Paddy Rodgers renews attacks on open-loop scrubbers
One of shipping’s most vocal opponents of scrubbers has aimed another barrage at exhaust gas cleaning systems. Euronav boss Paddy…
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Shipping warned of imminent Abu Sayyaf strike
ReCAAP, the Asian piracy watchdog, has issued a warning of potential attacks on ships in and around Philippine waters. The…
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11 crew kidnapped from German boxship off Nigeria
Over the weekend pirates boarded a Liberian flagged containership off the coast of Nigeria, seizing 11 crew including eight from…
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CMB eyes first hydrogen-powered bulker as early as 2023
Belgian shipowner CMB Group is looking to adopt alternative clean fuel in the future as a way to deal with…
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IMO to ban carriage of non-compliant fuels
An amendment to support consistent implementation of the forthcoming 0.50% limit on sulphur in ships fuel oil was adopted by…
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Gordon Dadds acquires Ince & Co
Two London-based law firms Gordon Dadds and Ince & Co International are set to merge, after Gordon Dadds agreed to…
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Crew of Swiss bulker freed after kidnapping off Nigeria last month
Twelve crewmembers kidnapped from a Swiss ship off Nigeria last month have been freed, Swiss judicial officials said on Sunday.…
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Green ships, scrubbers and all things digital
The challenge for shipping today is to deal with environmental and tech issues based on facts and science, and not…
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Weekly Broker: Tanker bargain hunting
Q4 always tends to bring S&P deals out of the woodwork and 2018 is proving no exception with Greeks very…
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Holed boxship heads to Romania for repairs
The 5,000 teu is now en route to a ship repair yard in Constanta, Romania to fix a huge gash…
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Scrubber-fitted VLCC pool created
New York-based Hartree Maritime Partners and Arne Fredly’s Hunter Group are forming a VLCC pool for ships fitted with scrubbers.…
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Malaviya Twenty OSV finally leaves UK shores 28 months after being arrested
A ship that arguably drew more attention to the plight of crew abandonment than any other has finally left UK…
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ShipNext and SeaRates join forces
Three digital freight platforms are coming together to offer bookings for bulk, tanker, container, MPP and even air freight shipments.…
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