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Hamburg and Amsterdam can take on London’s shipping role
Ralf Browatzki from AMB Executive Search argues Hamburg and Amsterdam are the best placed shipping cities to win from Brexit.…
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Shipowner told to pay for damages caused by Cebu boardwalk collision
City officials in Naga in southern Cebu are demanding damage payments from the owners of a ship that smashed into…
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Harvest International Shipping bulker detained in Shanghai
Shanghai Maritime Court has detained Panama-flagged bulk carrier at the request of Shanghai Huiyang Ship Equipment due to unpaid debts…
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RINA closes Edif acquisition
Italian classification society RINA has closed its acquisition of the entire share capital of the UK’s Edif Group Limited for…
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Benita refloating operation coming up
Inclement weather conditions in Mauritius have hampered the salvage operation of the bulk carrier over the last few days, but…
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Fleet Management: Smaller managers risk being phased out
Like shipping in general, smaller players in the shipmanagement sector risk being elbowed out, argues the head of one of…
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Live animal export: Shipping’s high risk moving feast
In the third of an explosive series for Splash, leading Australian livestock expert Dr Lynn Simpson dishes the dirt on…
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UK nuclear sub collides with ship off Gibraltar
Britain’s newest and most expensive nuclear submarine collided with an unidentified merchant vessel off Gibraltar during a training exercise on…
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Shipbrokers follow traders to new instant messaging platform
Just over two weeks remain until major oil traders will cease using Yahoo Instant Messenger for good. Shipbrokers are following them to…
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Wallem: ‘Consistent, sustainable and organic growth’
Wallem, one of the world’s largest shipmanagers, is not following many of its peers by pursuing aggressive growth, the company’s…
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Sacked Horizon whistleblower awarded more than $1m in damages
A court in the US has awarded more than $1m to a former Horizon Lines master who was sacked in…
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Pokémon Go and the art of management
Captain Jan Sundberg identifies what CEOs could learn from the latest gaming craze. My kids are deeply into the suddenly…
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Guilty verdicts for heroin smuggling owner and agent
A former shipowner and a shipping agent were found guilty yesterday of smuggling more than two tons of heroin into…
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Up to 37,500 East Asians dying prematurely a year from ship pollution
Expect other nations in East Asia to follow China’s lead in creating emission control areas (ECAs) following the release of…
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Abu Sayyaf linked with missing tugboat crew off Sabah
Another tugboat appears to have fallen prey to Abu Sayyaf terrorists with its crew taken hostage. Fishermen off Sabah in…
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Making shipping history
Jude Rodrigues was the captain tasked with making the first transit through the expanded Panama Canal last month. Here he…
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Vessel impounded for smuggling arms sinks in the Philippines
A vessel confiscated in 2009 by the Philippines’ Bureau of Customs for arms smuggling has sunk in Manila Bay due to…
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NYK pleads guilty to car carrier cartel charges
Japan’s Nippon Yusen Kaisha has pleaded guilty to criminal cartel behavior at Australia’s federal court. On Friday, Splash reported the…
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Aegean and three engineers indicted over alleged pollution conspiracy
Two subsidiaries of Greece’s Aegean Group on Friday were indicted in Charleston, South Carolina, on pollution conspiracy and obstruction of…
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Bosphorus reopens after Turkey coup attempt
Turkish maritime authorities reopened Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait yesterday having shut it for a number of hours following an attempted coup…
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