France
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Dry Cargo
Abu Dhabi buys into Louis Dreyfus
ADQ, a state-run Abu Dhabi holding company, is buying an indirect 45% stake in Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC), one of…
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Tankers
Total taps Hafnia and Viken for LNG-fuelled aframax newbuilds
Total has tapped Hafnia and Viken Shipping to charter LNG-fuelled newbuild tankers, the latest sign of energy majors forcing through…
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Finance and Insurance
France and South Korea top maritime state aid handouts during Covid-19
Governments have been dishing out billions of dollars in shipping aid packages during the Covid-19 pandemic with very few strings…
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Gas
NYK buys out Total’s share in LNG shipmanagment venture
Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) has bought out the French LNG shipmanagement joint venture it has with energy major Total. Based…
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Environment
LNG champion GTT buys top French green hydrogen producer
In a sign of changing fuel demands, Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT), the French manufacturer of the world’s most in demand…
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Containers
CMA CGM and MSC join TradeLens as foundation carriers
CMA CGM and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) have joined the Maersk/IBM created TradeLens blockchain platform as so-called foundation carriers. “The…
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Offshore
Seabed Geosolutions wins survey contract offshore Brazil
Seabed Geosolutions has secured a contract to perform a baseline 4D ocean bottom node (OBN) survey and a future 4D…
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Environment
French wind-assisted roro project powers ahead
Manitou Group, a manufacturer of equipment for handling, aerial work platforms and earthmoving, has formalised its partnership with compatriot French…
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Operations
CMA CGM online system back up and running
French containerline CMA CGM has confirmed that the company’s e-commerce sites have resumed operations with all their main functionalities up…
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Containers
Boxship runs aground in Vietnam en route to scrapyard
The 2002-built 1,118 teu feedermax containership ran aground on the east coast of Vietnam after encountering heavy weather and sea…
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Operations
BRS Group appoints new chairman
France-based maritime service outfit BRS Group has announced that Tim Jones has stepped down from his position as chairman which…
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Renewables
Total acquisition marks entry into offshore floating wind farm sector in France
French energy giant Total has acquired a 20% shareholding in the Eolmed floating wind farm pilot project, located in the…
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Containers
Ten days on and CMA CGM is still struggling to get all its systems back online
In the 10th day since CMA CGM was hit by ransomware the company has yet to get its eBusiness functions…
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Tech
IMO and CMA CGM battle to get systems back online
IT experts continue to contain the fallout from cyber attacks to shipping’s top regulator as well as France’s number one…
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Tech
CMA CGM concedes data breach is likely as criticism mounts over its handling of ransomware attack
CMA CGM is facing growing criticism for the way it has communicated the ongoing IT fallout from its ransoware attack…
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Tech
CMA CGM gets back to work after ransomware attack
CMA CGM has spent the past 24 hours trying to reassure clients that operations are carrying on and the worst…
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Tech
CMA CGM confirms cyber attack
CMA CGM has confirmed it has become the latest liner to suffer a cyber attack today. The company stated today…
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Tech
CMA CGM cites ‘internal IT infrastructure issue’ as sites go down
CMA CGM has become the latest global carrier to be hit hard by IT issues with clients waking up this…
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Containers
CMA CGM buys into French airline
Marseille-headquartered CMA CGM continues to diversify from its liner origins under the leadership of Rodolphe Saade. The company revealed yesterday…
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Tech
France demonstrates its autonomous shipping prowess
Paris-headquartered class society Bureau Veritas and the French flag have developed a new compliance approach for SeaOwl’s remote operations known…
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