April 2nd, 20200New York-listed VLCC tanker owner DHT Holdings has announced that it has entered into time charter contracts for six of its vessels. DHT Lake, DHT Raven, DHT...
April 2nd, 20200South Korean owner Pan Ocean has placed an order at compatriot yard Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) for the construction of a VLCC. The 300,000 dwt...
April 1st, 20200Navigare Capital Partners, a Copenhagen-based alternative investment fund manager dedicated to investments in maritime assets, is gearing up for a new round of ship...
April 1st, 20201With VLCC rates enjoying extraordinary strength over the past month, interest in secondhand tonnage is also strong. Brokers are seeing an increased demand for storage...
March 31st, 20200Japanese owner Asahi Tanker has announced a plan to build the world's first two zero-emissions electric bunker tankers. The vessels are being designed by e5...
March 31st, 20200Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG) has closed on a $33.15m loan, led by Wintrust Commercial Finance (WCF), to finance a newbuild 204,000 barrel US-flagged oil and chemical...
March 30th, 20200Pillarstone’s Genoa-based Premuda has taken delivery of newbuild MR tanker from Minami Nippon, its first newbuild in five years. The vessel has been brought in by...
March 30th, 20200Coronavirus has infected the latest quarterly survey carried on this site with readers asked to pick their winners and losers from the current extraordinary lockdown...
March 30th, 20200One of South Korea’s largest shipping lines has a new boss. Joong Ho Ahn steps up today from the position of deputy president to CEO at Pan Ocean, replacing Sung-Yob...
March 30th, 20200Swedish tanker owner Stena Bulk has commenced a test to run one of its MR tankers on 100% biofuel. The fuel being used for the test is the MR1-100 bio-fuel oil,...
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 26th, 20200Deals for secondhand tonnage are drying up quicker than people’s throats. There’s the logistics of sealing a deal first up - being able to inspect a ship and get...
March 26th, 20200December saw tanker commercial management firm Concord Maritime, launched in April 2018 by Ben Ognibene, move into shipowning with the acquisition of 2007-built Samsung...
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, 20200Simeon Palios, the chairman and CEO of both Diana Shipping and Performance Shipping, has tested positive for coronavirus. In an SEC filing, Diana Shipping said it has...
March 25th, 20200The perilous state of the under reported car carrier segment leads the March issue of Splash Extra with exclusive news of lay-ups, scrapping and super slow steaming...
March 24th, 20200Singapore-based Unix Line, the primary shipmanagement arm of MOL Chemical Tankers, was fined $1.65m and placed on four years probation after pleading guilty last month...
