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Asia
Calls for comprehensive STCW revision grow
The rapid evolution of technology is not being followed by the development of maritime personnel competence, and the current International…
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Gas
Rates for LNG carriers soar into record territory
Rates for LNG carriers have soared to record highs of $200,000 a day this week with plenty of analysts suggesting…
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Greater China
Cosco engineers blockchain coup to rival Maersk’s TradeLens
Cosco has engineered a massive blockchain coup, sideswiping rival Maersk in the process. Yesterday in China many of the world’s…
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Containers
Top carriers have polarised view on scrubbers
Just four of the world’s top 12 container carriers have committed to install scrubbers on a significant part of their…
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Europe
Star Bulk tops sale and purchase markets with close to $1bn of deals in 2018
Sale and purchase activity has been robust over the past year, and the makeup of the top buyers has shifted…
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Asia
Esben Poulsson says STCW is no longer fit for purpose
Esben Poulsson, the chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), has called today for changes to be made to…
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Asia
Triyards seeks court protection to finalise restructuring
Offshore shipbuilder Triyards Holdings, part of Singapore’s Ezra Holdings, has applied to the High Court of Singapore for protection while…
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Contributions
Training strategies for millennials
Speaking at CrewConnect today in Manila, Anglo-Eastern’s Captain Pradeep Chawla makes the case for changing how training institutions operate. “Dealing…
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Americas
Sunken Iranian tanker features on US sanctions list
The badly burnt, rusting wreckage of the lies on the seabed of the East China Sea. The burning Iranian tanker…
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Middle East
Iranian sanctions seen boosting tanker rates
The reimposition of sanctions on Iran – effective from today – is viewed by multiple analysts as a boon for…
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Europe
OECD calls for the European Commission to step in amid liner monopoly fears
The International Transport Forum (ITF), administrated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), has today called upon the…
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Tankers
VLCCs pass Worldscale 100 mark
Rates for VLCCs out of the Middle East to Asia have reached the Worldscale 100 mark, pushing earnings close to…
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Europe
Maersk instant booking tool takes flight
Maersk claims today a new instant booking confirmation tool it is launching is a first for the container shipping industry…
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Contributions
What’s killing our seafarers?
It is easy to forget the strength and brute force that the ocean can render. Few appreciate this more than…
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Containers
Weekly Broker: Bulker feast
The secondhand bulker sale and purchase market in the past week has turned to a feast for owners who are…
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Asia
Sanko exiting the cape sector
Japan’s Sanko Steamship is exiting the cape sector. Broker sources tell Splash that the one time shipping powerhouse has started…
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Europe
Fire erupts as ferry slams into crane at Barcelona port
Firefighters rushed to the port of Barcelona this morning as a ferry operated by Italy’s Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) slammed…
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Containers
Boxship scrapping levels lowest since 2008
The supply/demand imbalance in the container shipping segment is worsening with Alphaliner reporting 2018 will mark the lowest level of…
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Europe
Maersk shifts giant 17,816 teu pair onto booming transpacific
Two of the largest ships to ever ply the transpacific will shortly set off as the tradelane continues to experience…
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Finance and Insurance
Why there’s no love for shipping equities
Many shipping sectors are rebounding, but IPOs remain thin on the ground. J Mintzmyer, lead investor at Value Investor’s Edge,…
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