Editor’s Picks
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Europe
Putin vows to increase traffic tenfold along the Northern Sea Route by 2025
Russian president Vladimir Putin has sought to increase traffic along the Northern Sea Route tenfold by 2025. Delivering his state-of-the-nation…
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Europe
Latest pilot death prompts urgent safety call
The sad news of yet another pilot death earlier this week has prompted calls again for all stakeholders to fully…
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Bunkering
Heated LNG red herring debate
Part of my job as an editor of a daily shipping news title is to generate debate. So when an…
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Asia
Asia Fund Space moves to rescue Ezra Holdings
Hong Kong’s Asia Fund Space Group, an online regional financial consultancy agency specialising in equity market restructuring and financing, has agreed…
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Europe
Oldendorff fixing spree sees up to 30 bulkers taken on period
Germany’s Oldendorff Carriers is increasingly dictating the fortunes of the supramax and handymax bulker sectors. Having been one of the…
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Europe
Team Tankers grows fleet to over 50 vessels with $206m Laurin acquisitions
Team Tankers International has entered into share purchase agreements to acquire Laurin Shipping and Anglo-Atlantic Steamship Company in a series of transactions worth around $206m.…
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Europe
HSH sells FSL Trust stake to Prime Tanker Management
Germany’s HSH Nordbank has sold FSL Holding, the holding company of Singapore’s FSL Trust, to an affiliate of Greek shipowner…
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Containers
Weekly Broker: Détente before battle for bargain bulkers resumes
The past week has been the quietest week of the year so far for bulker S&P activities, while the interest…
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Europe
HSH Nordbank sold for $1.22bn
Over a year since the sale process was launched, the federal states of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein have reached an agreement to…
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Asia
MOL announces massive restructuring
Japan’s largest shipping line has announced a sweeping restructuring and a raft of senior management changes in its largest corporate…
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Europe
Mediterranean Car Carriers Line involved in another case of crew neglect
Greece’s Mediterranean Car Carriers Line (MCCL) is in the news again after it was revealed that the crew on another…
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Asia
HMM confirms Europe return
Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) today confirmed its intention to reenter the Asia-Europe box tradelane on its own with its boss…
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Europe
C Transport Maritime linked to $185m Rosco fleet acquisition
John Michael Radziwill has been linked by brokers to the acquisition of the entire fleet of China’s Rewood Ocean Shipping…
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Asia
Union Marine Management Services targets European expansion with new Oslo office
Singapore-based shipmanager Union Marine Management Services (UMMS) is opening a new shipmanagement office in Oslo, headed by former Höegh Wallem…
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Contributions
Change will come, but not unless we make it happen
Rashid Baba, chief commercial officer at Thuraya, writes for Splash on where shipping is today in terms of embracing digital…
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Europe
EU warns IMO that April’s MEPC must deliver serious emission reduction plans
In a statement yesterday the Council of the European Union stressed the International Maritime Organization (IMO) must be firm to…
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Contributions
Why LNG as the ship fuel of the future is a massive red herring
Dr Tristan Smith from UCL Energy Institute takes issue with a feature we ran last week on France’s push to…
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Asia
BP exits MR sector with triple sale to Sinokor
Three 2005-built MR tankers belonging to oil major BP’s shipping arm have been sold en bloc for $12.2m each including…
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Press Releases
Fortnight to go until the Maritime CEO Forum returns
There’s two weeks to go until the next edition of the Maritime CEO Forum. To be held at the Fullerton…
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Middle East
Conditions now deadly on abandoned chemical tanker off Tunisia
The master of the chemical tanker has contacted Splash with details of another shocking case of crew abandonment. The ship…
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