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The maritime transport industry has lost its focus
A day may come when a ship is not allowed to enter a port, if it is not utilising its…
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Emanuel Exports handed livestock ban
Canberra has suspended Emanuel Exports’s licence in the waking of shocking footage of conditions on a ship carried on a…
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Korea’s largest steel mill gets shipping partners to install scrubbers
Korea, Inc has thrown its weight behind scrubbers. In a significant move, POSCO, one of the top five steel mills…
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Weekly Broker: Sun shines on ship deals ahead of the summer break
Following two weeks of comparatively low activity levels, the secondhand dry bulk sale and purchase market bounced back in recent…
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Wilhelmsen Ship Management adds UK office, targets ambitious growth
Wilhelmsen Ship Management (WSM) continues its ambitious expansion, announcing today the opening of a new ship management office in Southampton.…
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Negligent homicide charge dropped against commander of USS Fitzgerald
The US Navy is dropping a charge of negligent homicide against the commanding officer of the USS Fitzgerald over the…
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Cosco to increase arctic voyages this summer
Cosco Shipping Specialized Carriers, the special purpose vessel unit of China Cosco Shipping, is going to deploy more than ten…
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Could ship finance help resolve crew abandonment?
David Galea, a partner at Ince & Co, based in Dubai, has this contribution on how to solve ‘one of…
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Australian livestock trades change direction
The livestock trades out of Australia are changing in dramatic fashion in the weeks since a whistleblower seafarer exposed conditions…
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Generator fire doused on Great Lakes bulker, USCG to investigate
US Coast Guard (USCG) responded on Monday to a self-discharging Great Lakes bulk carrier that suffered a generator fire. The…
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Shipowner associations issue sulphur cap submissions
The world’s leading shipowning organisations have co-sponsored a number of submissions to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) ahead of a…
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Huge fire tackled at Port Kembla
More than 100 firefighters were deployed at Port Kembla on the east coast of Australia today, dousing a massive fire…
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Drilling into human data at sea
Steven Jones, the founder of the Seafarers Happiness Index, writes exclusively for Splash today, stressing the importance of bridging the…
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Fire rips through Shreyas boxship off Kolkata
Containership suffered an explosion onboard while near Kolkata, India yesterday. The incident happened when the 1,118 teu vessel, operated by…
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RINA appoints new shipping head
Nello Sulfaro has been appointed the new head of the shipping division at Italian classification society RINA. He will be…
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Panama Canal Authority increases maximum draft for neopanamax locks
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has announced that it is increasing the maximum allowable draft for vessels transiting the Canal’s…
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Five key differences between Posidonians and Vouliadonians. Which are you?
Jon Chaplin from Spinnaker Global has the final, wry word on last week’s mammoth series of events in and around…
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Canada launches campaign to recruit seafarers
Canada’s Seafarers’ Training Institute (STI) has launched a hiring initiative to plug a looming labour gap in the offing as…
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MSC to complete Messina deal by October
MSC’s acquisition of 49% stake in the Genoa-based conro shipping company Messina is expected to be sealed by October, reports…
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Weekly Broker: Lighter Posidonia hangover a sign of the bargains on offer
The normal Posidonia hangover in the S&P markets has not been as keenly felt this year, a likely sign that…
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