Editor’s Picks
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Europe
Paddy Rodgers renews attacks on open-loop scrubbers
One of shipping’s most vocal opponents of scrubbers has aimed another barrage at exhaust gas cleaning systems. Euronav boss Paddy…
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Greater China
DSIC and China Merchants test landmark sail propulsion system on VLCC
Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (DSIC) and China Merchants Energy Shipping (CMES) have completed a test run of a sail propulsion…
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Gas
LNG tipped as best shipping sector next year
Rates for LNG carriers are soaring at the moment, pushing north of $150,000 a day and Splash readers reckon the…
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Greater China
Cosco in talks to take 49% stake in Sovcomflot
China’s state run shipping conglomerate China Cosco Shipping Corporation is in talks to take a stake of up to 49%…
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Americas
Bunge, Cargill, ADM and Louis Dreyfus join forces to digitise agrishipping
Four of the largest grain traders in the world are partnering to seek ways to digitise shipping transactions. Archer Daniels…
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Contributions
Green ships, scrubbers and all things digital
The challenge for shipping today is to deal with environmental and tech issues based on facts and science, and not…
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Europe
Marinakis makes waves in the aframax sector
Evangelos Marinakis has clearly noted tanker bargains are there to be had. Having kept his powder dry all year when…
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Europe
Norwegian Shipowners’ Association: High quality, ambition and a desire to explore
It’s about more than maritime. Harald Solberg, CEO of the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association, sees a world of opportunity from his…
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Containers
Weekly Broker: Tanker bargain hunting
Q4 always tends to bring S&P deals out of the woodwork and 2018 is proving no exception with Greeks very…
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Asia
CMA CGM the big winner from ONE’s transpacific fall
According to the latest eastbound transpacific liftings data analysed by Alphaliner, ONE, the new Japanese merged container liner, lost a…
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Gas
Rates for LNG carriers in the Atlantic double in the space of two months
Rates for LNG carriers in the Atlantic have doubled in the space of two months with 160,000 cu m LNG…
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Europe
Sulphur cap experience-building phase set for approval today
The 73rd gathering of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) taking place this week at the London headquarters of the…
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Americas
Scrubber-fitted VLCC pool created
New York-based Hartree Maritime Partners and Arne Fredly’s Hunter Group are forming a VLCC pool for ships fitted with scrubbers.…
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Tankers
DHT positions itself as pure-play VLCC owner with aframax pair up for sale
DHT Holdings is looking to become a pure-play VLCC owner, and has put its only two aframaxes in the shop…
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Dry Cargo
Chinese power plant stockpiles at highest level since 2015
Chinese power plant coal stockpiles have climbed to approximately 83.3m tons as of the middle of this month, according to…
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Europe
Solstad Offshore moves to restructure finances
Solstad Offshore, formed as Solstad Farstad last year by the merger of Farstad Shipping, Solstad Offshore and Deep Sea Supply,…
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Contributions
A pragmatist’s guide to MEPC73
The IMO’s 2020 sulphur cap is rapidly descending into a colossal regulatory fail, argues Jeffrey McGee from Makai Marine Advisors.…
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Asia
Calls grow for HMM to merge with SM Line
Two of South Korea’s top containerlines must merge or risk becoming the next ‘Hanjin’, according to the vice chairman of…
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Tankers
Poten predicts VLCC spike will carry through to 2019
VLCC rates, averaging above $40,000 a day this month, dramatically up from September’s $16,500 average, look set for a strong…
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Asia
Eastern Pacific exiting handysize and ultramax segments
Idan Ofer’s Eastern Pacific Shipping is having a notable dry bulk clear-out of its fleet. Seven smaller bulkers have been…
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