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Shanghai Bestway facing non-payment for several shipbuilding contracts

October 15th, 20180 Chinese ship design and shipbuilding firm Shanghai Bestway Marine Engineering Design is facing multiple risks in several major shipbuilding contracts, which would...

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China Ocean Industry inks sale and leaseback deal for Jiangzhou Union Shipbuilding

October 15th, 20180 China Ocean Industry has entered into a sale and leaseback agreement with Ruilian Asset Management Company for the entire assets of its subsidiary yard Jiangzhou Union...

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CSSC Shipping adds two mini capes at Huangpu Wenchong

October 15th, 20181 CSSC Shipping, the shipowning unit of China State Shipbuilding Corporation, has exercised options to construct two more 120,000 dwt mini capesize bulkers at CSSC Huangpu...

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Yangzijiang Shipbuilding establishes another jv with Mitsui

October 12th, 20180 Chinese major private shipyard Yangzijiang Shipbuilding has entered into a joint venture agreement with Japan’s Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding to establish a new...

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LLOG orders floating production system at Hyundai Heavy Industries

October 11th, 20180 US exploration and production company LLOG Exploration has placed an order at South Korean shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) for the construction of a...

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Nissen Kaiun contracts four boxships at Tsuneishi Zhoushan

October 10th, 20180 Japan’s Nissen Kaiun has gone to China for a series of boxship orders. No price has been revealed for the four 1,900 teu Tier II ships Nissen Kaiun has contracted...

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NYK LNG carrier fetches highest demo rate of the year

October 10th, 20180 Demo prices are achieving new highs with one old gas carrier managing to notch a very strong $551 per ldt. The 1983-built , formerly owned by Japan’s Nippon Yusen...

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AVIC International Leasing orders eight ultramax bulkers at Dayang

October 10th, 20180 Chinese financial leasing company AVIC International Leasing has signed shipbuilding contracts with SUMEC Marine for the construction of eight 63,500 dwt ultramax bulk...

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Huarong Energy disposes of Rongsheng assets

October 10th, 20180 Huarong Energy, formerly Rongsheng Heavy Industries, has officially entered into an agreement with Unique Orient for the disposal of its shipbuilding assets. Unique...

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Gazprom orders offshore quartet at Zvezda

October 9th, 20180 Russia’s Gazprom has placed orders at Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex for the construction of four vessels. The company has ordered three supply vessels and a passenger...

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Containerships adds two more LNG-powered boxships at Huangpu Wenchong

October 9th, 20180 Finnish shipowner Containerships has signed a preliminary agreement with China’s CSSC-affiliated Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding for the construction of an additional...

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Europe hits out at Korean maritime state funding

October 8th, 20180 SEA Europe and European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA), the trade associations representing respectively European shipbuilding and maritime equipment and...

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Stolt-Nielsen exercises options for LNG carrier pair at Keppel

October 8th, 20180 Singapore's Keppel Offshore & Marine has announced that Stolt-Nielsen Gas has exercised options at subsidiary Keppel Singmarine for two additional small-scale dual...

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Bocomm adds four more kamsarmaxes at CSSC Chengxi

October 8th, 20180 China’s Bank of Communications Leasing (BoComm Leasing) has signed shipbuilding contracts with CSSC Chengxi Shipyard for the construction of four 80,000dwt kamsarmax...

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Hornbeck and Gulf Island to go to court over cancellation

October 5th, 20180 Hornbeck Offshore has had a lawsuit filed against it by Gulf Islands Shipyards over the termination of contracts for the final two vessels in Hornbeck's fifth OSV...

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Rosco fleet up for sale again
Chinese owner Rewood Ocean Shipping (Rosco) has listed its entire fleet for sale again, having... Oct 17th, 2018 inDry Cargo
Oltmann makes KG return
A decade since it last dabbled in the KG markets, Germany’s Oltmann Group has launched a new... Oct 17th, 2018 inEurope
V.Group acquires Norddeutsche Reederei H. Schuldt
Shipmanagement giant V.Group continues its growth by acquisition strategy, signing a deal with... Oct 17th, 2018 inOperations
Formosa Plastics pushes ahead with fleet clearout
Taiwanese conglomerate Formosa Plastics is having a fleet clearout with a host of different ship... Oct 17th, 2018 inGreater China
ONE set for singularly awful first year with $600m loss
Carrier consolidation can prove tricky as evidenced today with news of a massive revision of... Oct 16th, 2018 inContainers

More than 80,000 hit by German box leasing Ponzi scheme

Diana Shipping kamsarmax charter extended by Glencore

DeepOcean awarded Australian contract

Adani and Total partner up to develop LNG terminals

Seafarer dies after falling from CSL bulker

Seaboard and BBC Chartering seek joint Americas coverage

Ulstein gets in on the Jones Act with Aeolus Energy SOV deal

Intel chips in on Rolls-Royce’s autonomous shipping drive

Pilot in hot water over last year’s most watched shipping accident

Gulf Energy Maritime puts its handysize tankers up for sale

Gulf Marine Services secures liftboat contract

Höegh LNG vessel to leave Egypt

Adani and Total partner up to develop LNG terminals

ONE set for singularly awful first year with $600m loss

Minsheng Financial Leasing snaps up five PIL boxships

HMM denies move to take over SM Line’s transpacific business

Rizhao Port sets up logistics jv with Cosco

Rosco fleet up for sale again

Formosa Plastics pushes ahead with fleet clearout

Minsheng Financial Leasing snaps up five PIL boxships

Another blaze injures seven at the world’s most dangerous shipping destination