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CSSC disposes of shares in loss-making subsidiary

June 11th, 20180 CSSC-affiliate Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding has sold its entire 26% equity shares in CSSC Shenghui Equipmet, a marine equipment manufacturer to Zhejiang Rongsheng Holding...

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Maran Gas executes options for LNG carrier and FSRU at DSME

June 8th, 20180 Maran Gas, a unit of Greek owner Angelicoussis Shipping Group, has provided shipyards with some rare cheer at Posidonia this week, declaring options for a 173,400 cu m...

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Grimaldi inks six more Jinling roros

June 6th, 20180 Naples-based Grimaldi Group has just exercised the options for a further six roro ships with Jinling shipyard which are worth some $400m according to several sources...

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FueLNG orders LNG bunkering vessel at Keppel

June 6th, 20180 FueLNG, a joint venture between Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) and Shell Eastern Petroleum, has placed an order at Keppel O&M for the construction of...

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Cosco and Mitsubishi to collaborate on scrubber project

June 6th, 20180 Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry Dalian (Cosco Dalian), a subsidiary yard of China Cosco Shipping, has entered into an agreement with Japanese shipbuilder Mitsubishi Heavy...

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Macron’s top aide in hot water over MSC corruption allegations

June 5th, 20180 Anti-corruption police are investigating allegations that French president Emmanuel Macron’s chief of staff, Alexis Kohler, violated conflict of interest rules in...

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Yangzijiang seals nine new vessel orders in May

June 4th, 20180 China’s Yangzijiang Shipbuilding has revealed it sealed orders for nine vessels worth $578m during the month of May. The nine vessels are made up of five 12,000 teu...

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Hyundai Merchant Marine ordering 20 mega boxships at three domestic yards

June 4th, 20180 South Korea's Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) is going to order 20 mega containerships at three domestic yards as part of its newbuilding plan announced in April. HMM...

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China to revise shipyard white list

June 4th, 20181 China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has released a draft revision of the shipyard white list to seek advice from the public. The proposed...

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Ship recycling association urges Beijing to rethink scrap ban

May 30th, 20181 The International Ship Recycling Association (ISRA) has urged Beijing to rethink its decision to ban the import of foreign vessels to be scrapped at Chinese...

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Seoul creates special industrial crisis response zones to aid ailing shipbuilders

May 29th, 20180 With more than 100,000 Korean shipbuilders out of work in the past two years, and whole towns devastated by the drop in newbuilding activity, Seoul has taken further...

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Dship Carriers orders MPP pair at Taizhou Sanfu, eyes further expansion

May 29th, 20180 Thomas Press owned MPP specialist dship Carriers has ordered a pair of F-500 newbuild multipurpose vessels from China’s Shipbuilding. Delivery of the first vessel...

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Bankrupt Zhejiang Yingzhou Shipyard taken over by fishery group

May 28th, 20180 China’s Ping Tai Rong Ocean Fishery Group has acquired the assets of bankrupt Zhoushan Yingzhou Shipyard in a court-led auction for a price of RMB96m...

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Wuhan Newport Changhai orders feeder boxship pair at WUT Guangda

May 24th, 20180 Wuhan Newport Changhai Container Shipping, a regional shipping service provider on the Yangtze River, has awarded a shipbuilding contract to WUT Guangda Shipbuilding for...

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Philadelphia Shipyard to lay off 275 workers because of depleted orderbook

May 23rd, 20180 Philadelphia Shipyard on Tuesday announced it plans to lay off 275 workers by July 20. In notifying Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor about the imminent layoffs,...

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Hyundai Heavy runs out of offshore work
South Korean shipbuilding major Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has announced that it will suspend... Jun 22nd, 2018 inShipyards
This is why jackup rig dayrates will double
David Carter Shinn from Norwegian offshore rig brokerage and advisory Bassoe Offshore reckons it's... Jun 22nd, 2018 inOffshore
The Great Reversal: US crude and the diverse forces shaping tanker markets
Reduced floating storage, the high level of deliveries and mixed impact of increased US crude... Jun 22nd, 2018 inContributions
Korea’s largest steel mill gets shipping partners to install scrubbers
Korea, Inc has thrown its weight behind scrubbers. In a significant move, POSCO, one of the top... Jun 22nd, 2018 inEnvironment
HMM denies it is preparing for life without Maersk and MSC
January 1, 2020 marks a date creating headaches for shipowners around the world as they gear up for... Jun 20th, 2018 inContainers
Should HMM stay or go?
On March 16 2017, Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) inked a three-year strategic cooperation agreement... Jun 20th, 2018 inOpinion

Diana Shipping newcastlemax gets pay rise from Koch

Danaos seals $2.2bn debt refinancing

Wilhelmsen Ship Management adds UK office, targets ambitious growth

Angelicoussis back at DSME for another LNG carrier

Negligent homicide charge dropped against commander of USS Fitzgerald

Yangzijiang wins more newcastlemax orders

Cox Oil agrees on $322m buyout of EGC

Generator fire doused on Great Lakes bulker, USCG to investigate

GMS adds to its growing operational fleet

Shelf Drilling to list in Oslo on Monday

Shelf Drilling IPO oversubscribed

Rowan jackup gets three-year Saudi Aramco contract

Hyundai Heavy runs out of offshore work

Korea’s largest steel mill gets shipping partners to install scrubbers

Sungdong Shipbuilding seeks new owners

Ocean Network Express shifts from road to rail in the UK

COSL secures jackup contracts from Aramco

Worker dies after falling off ship at Beihai Shipbuilding

Cosco’s huge swathe of boxships still to deliver this year puts liners on edge

Cosco offers US authorities Long Beach terminal solution to solve OOCL takeover

Hyundai Heavy suffers vessel bottleneck thanks to Iran sanctions