Editor’s Picks
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Containers
ZIM’s CEO Rafi Danieli resigns
The ceo of Israeli containerline ZIM Integrated Shipping Services is resigning. Having worked at ZIM for 38 years, including seven…
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Asia
Pioneer Marine looks for further changes to newbuild programme
Pioneer Marine boss Pankaj Khanna has indicated that he could look to further restructure some of the seven remaining handysizes…
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Environment
Bergen asks OSVs to move out in bid to fight record pollution
In Bergen you can practically taste the depression in the offshore industry. The number of laid up OSVs has helped…
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Europe
Skuld: Quality concerns
Oslo: As the depression in shipping continues into 2016, the quality of the global fleet is likely to come under…
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Asia
SPP sale sees Korea Line parent in pole position
The parents of two South Korean shipping lines have been linked with adding a shipyard to their sprawling business empires.…
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Operations
Marshall Islands flag to surpass Liberia into second place this year
The Marshall Islands ship registry (RMI Registry) is confident it can overhaul Liberia this year to become the second largest…
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Africa
Algeria embarks on its largest infrastructure project since independence
Algeria will start work soon on a giant new port, the country’s single largest infrastructure project undertaken since independence from…
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Bunkering
20|20 Marine Energy: Bunker guidance in 2016
London: A new consultancy, 20|20 Marine Energy, was launched last month to help companies create and implement strategies for purchasing…
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Dry Cargo
Wave of bankruptcies predicted among Chinese dry bulk owners
A report just out from state-backed Shanghai International Shipping Institute (SISI) warns of a likely wave of bankruptcies among China’s…
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Containers
Zim reportedly delays New York IPO
Haaretz, Israel’s oldest newspaper, is reporting containerline Zim Integrated Shipping Services has taken heed of the deteriorating market conditions and…
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Asia
ITF seeks coronial enquiry into mysterious death onboard Nissen Kaiun ship
Another report of seafarer mistreatment involving Japanese owners in Australia has emerged. A 26-year-old Filipino sailor died from what has…
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Europe
Norway planned F-16 attack to stop drifting barge headed for Valhall
Norwegian authorities considered deploying an F-16 aircraft to destroy a barge that had broken from its moorings in the vicinity…
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Europe
Havila Shipping takes urgent steps to provide ‘sufficient liquidity buffer’
Struggling Oslo-listed Havila Shipping has entered into an agreement with its secured and unsecured bank lenders to reduce amortisation for…
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Finance and Insurance
2016 likely peak of shipping bankruptcies
This year could see a peak in the number of shipping bankruptcies seen since Lehman Brothers crashed in 2008. That’s…
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Asia
Korea’s big three yards brace for another tumultuous year
The heads of South Korea’s big three shipbuilders have delivered their New Year’s addresses, warning of another very difficult 12…
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Americas
Panama’s president expects May completion of Canal expansion
Panama’s national president Juan Carlos Varela said in an address to the nation that the expansion of the Panama Canal…
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Europe
Splash editor to run London Marathon for Sailors’ Society
Splash editor Sam Chambers is running this year’s London Marathon with his fiancée Eliza Jaroni. The couple will be running…
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Containers
Xu to head up China Cosco Shipping Group
Beijing’s State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) has given more details of the merger of Cosco and China Shipping,…
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Environment
Sustainable Shipping Initiative: Low oil prices hinder green developments
London: The current low fuel price is hindering uptake in technologies and other measures that will drive operational and environmental…
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Europe
IUMI outlines obstacles facing development of unmanned ships
A report from the International Union of Marine Insurance lays out many of the obstacles facing shipping’s quest for unmanned…
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