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MSPL puts post-panamax pair up for sale
Indian iron ore miner MSPL, part of the Baldota Group, has put a pair of 2011-built post-panamax bulkers up for…
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Liberty House plans to convert ABG Shipyard into a ship recycling site
Liberty House, the UK metals group owned by Sanjeev Gupta, plans to convert struggling ABG Shipyard into a steel plant…
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Private shipyards in India call for government support
A private shipyard body in India have urged the government to offer more support for struggling domestic private yards. The…
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Two confirmed dead from Indian VLCC explosion
In an update Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) has confirmed two seafarers have died following Tuesday morning’s explosion onboard the…
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Explosion on Indian VLCC off Oman
Three crew are missing and another has been helicoptered to hospital suffering burns after an Indian VLCC in ballast caught…
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Salvors ready to offload bunker fuel from stricken Shreyas boxship
A salvage team yesterday managed to install equipment to the severely damaged Shreyas boxship to siphon off fuel from the…
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India’s GOL Offshore shut down
India’s GOL Offshore has finally been put out of its misery, and has been shut down after lenders failed to…
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Great Eastern Shipping acquires secondhand VLGC
India’s Great Eastern Shipping has signed a contract to acquire a secondhand very large gas carrier. The 2006-built 81,605 cu…
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SSL Kolkata oil cleanup and salvage work starts
Shreyas Shipping and Logistics have started the oil cleanup and salvage works for the company’s grounded boxship following a major…
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Aban Offshore secures contracts for three jackups
Indian drilling contractor Aban Offshore has received a letter of award, via subsidiary Deep Drilling 1, for the deployment of…
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Seamec awarded charter contract by ONGC
Indian offshore vessel operator Seamec has received a notification of award from compatriot oil and gas major ONGC for the…
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India to ease chartering restrictions
The rapid opening up of India’s shipping sector continues. Fresh from announcing a partial relaxation of the country’s cabotage law,…
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Asia
SSL Kolkata risks splitting in two
The has listed further starboard and officials say it is likely to split in two as early as this weekend.…
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Stricken Shreyas boxship now listing
Authorities in India are preparing worst-case scenarios for the stricken boxship. Fires continue to rage on the Shreyas ship, nearly…
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Adani adds Kattupalli to its Indian ports network
India’s largest port developer Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) has paid Larsen and Toubro $248.3m to acquire a…
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Indian crew paid as little as $105 a month go on hunger strike
Hundreds of seafarers have been on hunger strike at several ports across India since the start of the week demanding…
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Crack found on Shreyas boxship after major fire
A crack has been found on the upper deck of Shreyas Shipping’s containership , which caught fire near Kolkata of…
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Fire rips through Shreyas boxship off Kolkata
Containership suffered an explosion onboard while near Kolkata, India yesterday. The incident happened when the 1,118 teu vessel, operated by…
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Varun’s Khatau plots comeback
Bust shipowners rarely go under for long. In India, one of the country’s most high profile casualties of the shipping…
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Crew member dies after explosion on Indian chemical tanker
An explosion onboard Indian chemical tanker has killed one of the ship’s crew. The vessel was anchored off Cochin Port…
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