Editor’s Picks
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Dry Cargo
Weekly Broker: Q1 ends on a whimper
As the first quarter of 2018 comes to a close action on the dry cargo secondhand market has reflected the…
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Asia
Splash TV: Bullish bulk outlook
Is dry bulk at another false dawn or does the much maligned sector finally have some legs? That was the…
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Asia
Sinokor and Heung-A agree to merge container operations
Days ahead Japan’s big three lines merging their container shipping operations, there’s news breaking from neighbouring South Korea where two…
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Greater China
Nobu Su’s last ship arrested and set for auction
One of the last vestiges of the shipping empire built by Taiwanese tycoon Nobu Su has been put up for…
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Operations
Shipping seen as the softest of hacker targets
Shocking statistics published yesterday show just what a soft target shipping is for for hackers. A survey of nearly 6,000…
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Contributions
Shipping’s false idols of equity and debt
A colleague’s piece I read recently mixed up some of his financial terms in an obvious market shorthand manner that…
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Environment
OECD comes up with ways to decarbonise shipping by 2035
Deployment of all currently known technologies could make it possible to almost completely decarbonise maritime shipping by 2035, according to…
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Asia
Samsung Ningbo sends workers on compulsory vacation
Samsung Ningbo, the Chinese yard owned by South Korean shipbuilding major Samsung Heavy Industries, has implemented a compulsory vacation plan…
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Contributions
The risk of further tanker market downside
Despite the positive consensus on medium-term fundamentals, a scenario-based analysis reveals the fragility of such assumptions, writes Tim Smith from…
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Asia
Splash TV: Shipping and offshore stuck in the 1990s
Watch as a leading name in the OSV sector hits out at shipping and offshore’s mid-1990s mindset when it comes…
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Europe
Australia bans MSC Kia Ora
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has banned the 1,118 teu containership from Australian ports for three months after the…
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Dry Cargo
Grindrod plans shipping spin-off
Grindrod has announced plans to spin off its shipping division on the Nasdaq among a host of other changes on…
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Contributions
Girls on film, ships on beaches
Nick Arthur from communications firm BLUE on the importance of getting your message correctly out in the open. Remember the…
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Environment
ICS urges governments to compromise ahead of MEPC 72
Ahead of next week’s important 72nd gathering of the Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) at the International Maritime Organization (IMO)…
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Asia
Eastern Pacific tipped as buyer of Mitsubishi aframax quartet
Japan’s Diamond Tanker, part of Mitsubishi Corporation, has found a buyer for four of its aframaxes. Brokers are tipping the…
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Contributions
The pursuit of seafarer happiness
Happiness has become quite a topic of conversation lately – there has been the International Day of Happiness, and the…
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Asia
Polaris rocked by another safety fault
Just ahead of the first anniversary since the high profile sinking of its VLOC Stellar Daisy, South Korea’s Polaris Shipping…
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Americas
New York dry bulk investment fund launches
Yesterday saw the launch in New York of the first freight futures exchange-traded fund focusing exclusively on dry bulk shipping.…
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Europe
Rongda adds Lomar supramax
Little known Chinese owner Rongda Shipping has reached out to European owner Lomar Shipping, grabbing a 15-year-old supramax bulker from the…
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Europe
Hessel Halbasma takes aim as he follows his son out the door at Oceanteam
Chairman of Dutch offshore outfit Oceanteam Hessel Halbesma has resigned from his role “in order to mitigate against further repercussion…
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