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Saipem to set up spool-base in the US
Italian offshore contractor Saipem has announced that it will establish a spool-base on Greenwood Island, Mississippi, to support pipelay vessel…
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Europe
Control of chemical tanker owner Finbeta goes to newcomer Chemtank
Savona-based Finbeta, a shipping firm founded by the Bertani family and active in the chemical tanker business with a fleet…
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Europe
Saras set to start bunkering operations in Cagliari
Saras Group, which operates the refinery plant based in Sarroch, announced in its most recent half year financial report that…
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Europe
Yilport targets over two million teu for Taranto
Turkey’s Yilport Holding is targeting an annual throughput of over two million teu in ten years time at Taranto Container…
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Europe
Yildirim set to debut in Italy with container terminal at Taranto
Yilport Holding is set to make a debut in the Italian container market after Robert Yuksel Yildirim, president and CEO…
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Europe
Saipem wins $160m worth of drilling contracts
Italian oil and gas contractor Saipem has been awarded new contracts for offshore drilling projects in Romania and Abu Dhabi…
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Europe
Banchero Costa: 51 years as a broker
Despite bigger companies, challenging market conditions, trade wars, newcomers on the ship financing market and digital disruption, there will always…
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Europe
Italy debates tonnage tax changes
The Italian shipping industry is split today into two parts with Confitarma (backed by Grimaldi Group) on one side and…
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Europe
Augusta teed up as low sulphur bunkering hub
Genoa-based Bunker Energy is promoting the port of Augusta as a leading hub for low sulphur fuel bunkering for ships…
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Europe
US authorities remove sanctions on PB Tankers
The US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has removed restrictions on Italian owner PB Tankers and unblocked previously sanctioned vessels…
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Europe
PB Tankers files for court protection in Italy
Rome-based PB Tankers has filed for court protection in Italy under the bankruptcy law following the action taken by the…
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Maritime CEO
Gestioni Armatoriali: Lack of finance in Italy for restructured companies
It has taken more than six years of restructuring but finally the Ravenna-based Gestioni Armatoriali is now free of debts…
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Europe
First deal closed by restructured Premuda
Genoa-based Premuda is back in the market and in a mood to shop. Broking sources have revealed to Splash that…
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Europe
Three officers arrested in arson case involving Grimaldi’s Grande Europa
Three officers of the Grimaldi Group who were on the conro ship which caught fire while transiting off the island…
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Europe
D’Amico and Mitsubishi sell ten-year old MR tanker
D’amico International Shipping has announced the sale for $16.1m of , a 46,547 dwt MR product tanker built in 2009…
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Europe
MSC completes deal for 49% of Messina Group and four conro ships
Gianluigi Aponte’s Italian holding company Marinvest and Messina Group have formally signed an agreement which makes MSC the new owner…
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Europe
Tax evasion case in Naples snares big names
The Guardia di Finanza, Italy’s financial police, have seized EUR4.6m ($5.2m) in funds belonging to Malta-based Heron Ventures in a…
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Europe
Contship Italia quits Cagliari
Less than two months after selling its 50% share in the Medcenter Container Terminal of Gioia Tauro to MSC, Contship…
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Asia
KS Energy charters semi-submersible rig to Eni in Indonesia
KS Energy has announced that the consortium PT Java Star Rig, a joint venture of KS Drilling and Universal Energy…
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Europe
Gestioni Armatoriali takes MR tanker from Latvian Shipping
Italian owner Gestioni Armatoriali has added one more tanker to its fleet after acquiring the 2007-built MR tanker from Latvian…
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