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Varun Shipping hit by another case of crew abandonment
Not for the first time India’s Varun Shipping has been shamed by its failure to look after its crew. Reuters…
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Rickmers brothers nix joint shipmanagement plans
The Rickmers brothers have decided not to join forces in shipmanagement. The two have been discussing since April a plan…
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Why aren’t more women serving at sea?
Every week Dalian correspondent Jason Jiang is tasked with writing a topical, in depth feature. This week he tackles the…
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Offshore doom, internet gloom, and a busy jobs room
Offshore woes continued to dominate the hits on Splash this week, which was appropriate given the high calibre offshore discussion…
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El Faro sank 10 minutes after captain had called to abandon ship
The US’s National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) has revealed the harrowing, scary lead up to the sinking of the…
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Baltic shareholders support SGX takeover
Just a rubber stamp approval from the UK’s financial regulator now stands in the way of the Singapore Exchange (SGX)…
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Vier Harmoni found by Indonesian navy
Indonesia’s navy has announced that it has located a product tanker which disappeared last week, taken by its crew after…
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Iran keen to participate in Nicaragua Canal project
The long dormant plan to build a canal through Nicaragua to rival the newly expanded Panama Canal could be revived.…
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Australian vet makes the cover of the latest issue of Maritime CEO
Today sees the launch of the latest issue of Maritime CEO magazine, the title aimed at shipping’s top echelon. Featured…
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Seafarers online: Is internet onboard a good thing?
Edward Ion from Navigate Response on the thorny issue of web use among crew. One of the unquestioned laws of…
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Siem Shipping pushes ahead with Oslo delisting
Siem Shipping is pushing ahead with its delisting, first mooted in May. Today it applied to the Oslo Stock Exchange…
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Topical online survey launches today
Another quarterly online survey launches today. The vote, dubbed MarPoll, will close in early November and features nine topical questions…
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Tankers slow to comply with new Panama Canal requirements
The full benefits of the new expanded Panama Canal will not be available to all very large oil tankers as…
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Two lanes of Panama Canal locks shutting down this week for repairs
Two lanes of the Panama Canal locks are being shut this week for scheduled repairs which will last through to…
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Giant CMA CGM boxship suffers grounding off Southampton
One of the world’s largest boxships is being inspected for any damages following a brief grounding incident in the UK…
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Indian seafarer income tax ruling to be challenged
A surprise move to chase Indian seafarers for income tax will be challenged in the coming days at the Kolkata…
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Crew evacuated as timber slides off listing Russian ship
The crew of a listing Russian general cargo ship have been evacuated. The Alfa issued a distress signal yesterday afternoon…
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Ukrainian suffers severe burns from engine room inferno
An engine room fire early Sunday morning resulted in a Ukrainian seafarer being helicoptered off the tanker Basilia with severe…
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Odfjell tanker runs aground off Australia
An Odfjell chemical tanker has run aground on a sandbar in Port Phillip Bay, off Rosebud in Australia. was inbound…
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Suezmax makes historic transit across the Panama Canal
On a day where suezmax tankers were trading on the Baltic Exchange time charter market for less than $1,000 there…
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