April 7th, 20200Confirmed newbuild orders in the first quarter of the year slumped 55% year-on-year with only 6.6m dwt ordered across the three major shipping segments, down from 14.7m...
April 3rd, 20203Keppel Shipyard has been revealed as the centre of a new coronavirus cluster in Singapore, with four cases discovered in the Tuas yard leading to 100 workers being sent...
April 3rd, 20201Japanese owner Nisshin Shipping has returned to Chinese yard Nantong Xiangyu Shipbuilding and Offshore Engineering for the construction of two 63,500 dwt ultramax...
April 1st, 20200Chinese leasing house Bank of Communications Financial Leasing (BoComm Leasing) has placed an order at Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding for the construction of four 325,000...
March 30th, 20200Imabari Shipbuilding and Japan Marine United (JMU), Japan's two largest shipbuilders, have given details of their new joint venture company. Nihon Shipyard Co will...
March 30th, 20200Shanghai Ming Wah Shipping, a wholly owned subsidiary of China Merchants Group, has announced a plan to sell three 6,300 dwt small chemical tankers to Sinopec Fuel...
March 27th, 20200Japan is currently exploring the possibilities to integrate 15 major shipyards in the country under a so-called All Japan Shipbuilding merger plan, following similar...
March 26th, 20200Spanish tanker operator Marflet Marine has entered into an agreement with 3 Maj, a subsidiary yard of financially troubled Croatian shipbuilding group Uljanik, to...
March 25th, 20200Two workers have died in a incident at an Imabari Shipbuilding yard in Japan yesterday. According to local reports, the two workers were found to have fallen into a...
March 24th, 20200Bangladesh has followed Pakistan and India’s lead in issuing a two-week moratorium on all ships heading to the south Asian nation for shipbreaking purposes. Five...
March 24th, 20200Greek owner Stavros Livanos-led Sun Enterprises has declared options at South Korean yard Deahan Shipbuilding for the construction of two 114,800 dwt aframax...
March 23rd, 20200Shipping companies looking at sending their ships for demo in south Asia are likely to face severe disruption thanks to the spread of coronavirus with only Bangladesh...
March 18th, 20200The heads of the European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA) and the European Transport Workers' Federation have called for leniency from Brussels when it comes...
March 17th, 20200State-run ASYAD Group has decided to merge Oman Shipping Company (OSC) and Oman Drydock Company (ODC). “The integration further connects the Sultanate’s shipping...
March 17th, 20200George Prokopiou-led Dynacom Tankers has used the lull in newbuild orders to bag a bargain from hungry Chinese yards. Brokers report Dynacom has inked a deal with...
March 17th, 20200Cosco Qidong Offshore, an affiliate offshore yard of Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry, has secured a contract from Malaysia's Yinson Holdings for the conversion of a VLCC...
March 13th, 20200A court in Shanghai has sentenced Zhou Fengxiang, former chairman of China Shipbuilding Industry Equipment and Materials (CSEMC), to prison for 11 years on corruption...
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