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Asia
Liquidators appointed at Mercator Lines
The Singapore dry bulk offshoot of India’s Mercator Group has appointed liquidators Yit Chee Wah and Joshua James Taylor today…
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Shipyards
Cochin Shipyard forms jv with Hooghly Dock
Indian shipbuilding major Cochin Shipyard has incorporated a joint venture, Hooghly Cochin Shipyard, with Hooghly Dock & Port Engineering for…
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Asia
Charity demands port and flag states are held accountable in crew abandonment fight
The charity Human Rights at Sea (HRAS) has called for greater resources to be deployed by both UN bodies, the…
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Asia
Plight of Malaviya Seven crew continues as auctioneer withdraws ship from sale
A solitary lowball bid for a detained OSV in Aberdeen yesterday saw an auctioneer cancel the ship’s sale, in the…
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Asia
Varun aframax finally finds a buyer
Creditors have sold another ship that used to belong to crisis hit Varun Shipping. The 11-year-old , an aframax tanker…
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Asia
Shreyas sends feeder boxship to scrap
Indian container feeder operator Shreyas Shipping & Logistics has entered into a memorandum of agreement for the sale of containership…
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Asia
Regulator suspends ABG Shipyard’s shipowning unit
India’s maritime regulator has revoked a document of compliance (DOC) given to PFS Shipping, the shipowning unit of debt-ridden ABG…
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Asia
Seamec secures DSV contract with IGOPL
Indian company Seamec has secured a contract with compatriot company IGOPL Offshore for the charter of the company’s dive support…
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Asia
Larsen & Toubro wins EPCIC deal at Daman
India’s Larsen & Toubro has won a contract, via subsidiary L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering, encompassing engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning…
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Contributions
India: the future of shipping?
Mark Williams, managing partner at Affinity Research, ponders just how much the world’s largest democracy can bolster global maritime fortunes.…
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Asia
Mercator offloads vintage bulker
Mercator Ltd has sold an elderly panamax bulker that it had earlier earmarked for scrap. Mercator is pocketing $3.8m from…
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Asia
Seven Islands Shipping kicks off IPO campaign
Indian tanker owner Seven Islands Shipping has filed preliminary papers for an IPO on home soil, aiming to raise $68.5m,…
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Asia
Shreyas takes its biggest boxship to date
Shreyas Shipping & Logistics, the Indian flagged vessel owning unit of Transworld Group, is linked to its biggest ship to…
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Asia
Shreyas Shipping acquires two secondhand vessels
Indian container feeder operator Shreyas Shipping & Logistics has signed memorandum of agreements for the acquisition of a 650 teu…
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Asia
Two workers killed in Gangavaram port accident
Two contract workers were killed in an accident during cargo loading operations at India’s Gangavaram port on Wednesday. Another three…
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Asia
BW VLGC prepares to depart India eight months after costly collision
Eight months after it collided with a product tanker sparking an environmental catastrophe on beaches neat Chennai, the VLGC is…
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Asia
India’s largest port renamed
India’s largest port in terms of cargo throughput has been renamed. Kandla Port, located on the Gulf of Kutch in…
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Asia
GOL Offshore staff owed 11 months back pay
Bust GOL Offshore owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in salaries to staff both ashore and at sea. With the…
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Asia
Cochin Shipyard plans dramatic expansion across India
Cochin Shipyard (CSL) will establish shipbuilding and repair facilities in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Gujarat, Kolkata and Mumbai, according…
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Asia
Campbell exiting supramax sector
Campbell Shipping is close to sealing a deal for the sale of a pair of Chinese supramaxes, brokers tell Splash.…
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