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Oceanteam and KPMG battle over billing dispute
Dutch Norwegian offshore services company Oceanteam says that KPMG has withdrawn its services as the company’s statutory auditor in Norway…
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Weekly Broker: Sales slow, but interest and prices stay firm
The last week has seen a slowdown in the secondhand bulk carrier sales in line with recent slowdown in the…
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French PM signals nationwide LNG bunkering intent
France looks set to take a leading role in the provision of LNG to ships with the government coming squarely…
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2020 fuel regulations weigh heavily on the minds of liner executives
The liner shipping industry is finally seeing recovery signs with pickup in demand, following a series of consolidations in the…
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Veldhuizen departs from DVB
As it fights to right its shipping exposure, DVB Bank is pushing through a notable management reshuffle with Bert Veldhuizen…
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Leader of Hong Kong declines to give shipping a dedicated government authority
Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive, soured 60th anniversary celebrations at the Hong Kong Shipowners Association (HKSOA) last night by…
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Call to create supranational body to handle abandoned ships
Having been a seafarer, a shipmanager and later a ship repossession superintendent few people are better placed to add to…
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Indian master recounts horror of spending a year alone on decrepit abandoned tanker
Dubai newspaper Gulf News has carried a shocking report of an Indian tanker master who has finally managed to head…
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Eni to quit shipowning with LNG carriers sale
Italian energy company Eni will quit the LNG carrier shipowning business in the near future the company told the seafarers…
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Deepsea autonomous ships unlikely for at least a generation: Maritime CEO Forum
Deepsea shipping is unlikely to become autonomous in the next 20 to 30 years delegates attending yesterday’s Maritime CEO Forum…
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Jack Hsu becomes HKSOA chairman
Oak Maritime’s Jack Hsu will be officially unveiled this evening as the new chairman of the Hong Kong Shipowners Association,…
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MSC mega boxship collides with engineering ship off China
Mega container ship collided with Chinese engineering ship Su Lian Hai Ji 0118 near Caofeidian Port in Hebei on Tuesday.…
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Turmoil at ThyssenKrupp’s Kiel yard
German newspaper Handlelsblatt is reporting that ThyssenKrupp’s shipyard in Kiel is in turmoil with significant losses prompting a management shuffle.…
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BW Offshore FPSO extended by AWE
BW Offshore has been awarded a one-year contract extension by Australian oil and gas company AWE for the lease and…
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Transocean semi-submersible nets $68m Davlin contract
Offshore driller Transocean has been awarded a contract by DEA Norge for semi-submersible rig to drill four production wells at…
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Citgo president detained by Venezuelan authorities on suspicion of corruption connected to PDVSA
The acting president of Venezuelan-owned American refiner Citgo has been arrested in the South American country on suspicion of corruption…
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US oil firms Talos Energy and Stone Energy are close to merger
US oil companies Houston-based Talos Energy and Stone Energy of Lafayette, Louisiana, are moving toward a $2.5bn merger, according to…
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Chinese ports clump together
Merging along provincial lines ports in the People’s Republic are consolidating in a big way, writes Jason Jiang. China’s central…
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Stopford predicts supply/demand equilibrium by 2021
It’ll take through to 2021 before the supply/demand equilibrium becomes favourable for shipping, the world’s most famous shipping analyst, Clarkson’s…
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Maersk fixes 22 classic panamaxes in the space of just one month
Maersk has been on a “fixing spree” of classic panamaxes, according to the latest weekly report from Alphaliner. Alphaliner has…
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