Russia
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Containers
Hong Kong liner rapidly builds up links with Russia
Yesterday, Splash detailed the main container names operating in and out of Russia, with a slew of new capacity entering…
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Containers
New capacity enters ‘thriving’ Russian container sector
While much has been written about how oil, gas, coal and grain trades have changed in the year since Russia…
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Europe
EU targets shipping in latest package of Russia sanctions
The European Union approved a tenth package of Russia sanctions on Friday with shipping very much in the sights of…
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Finance and Insurance
Ukraine to establish $500m ship insurance fund
In a bid to get more grain exports moving, Ukraine’s parliament has approved a $500m insurance fund to offer compensation…
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Containers
FESCO launches India service
FESCO, Russia’s top container name, is increasingly seeking routes to the country’s most important trading partners in the wake of…
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Europe
How shipping navigated its way through 12 months of war in Ukraine
3.40 am Kyiv time a year ago. War started by air, land, and sea. Immediately global trade suffered dislocations that…
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Ports and Logistics
Maersk inches one step closer to Russia exit as it sells logistics assets
A.P. Moller – Maersk has moved a step closer to discontinuing activities in Russia, having struck a deal to sell…
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Operations
Shipping calls on the UN to evacuate hundreds of seafarers stuck in Ukraine
More than 30 shipping organisations and companies are urging the United Nations to prioritise the immediate release of seafarers and…
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Tankers
Product tanker rates surge in opening days of EU’s latest Russia ban
Tankers carrying heavy crude failed to bounce following the European Union’s Russian ban in December. Not so, lighter products, where…
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Tankers
Russia products ban starts
Europe imposed a ban Sunday on Russian diesel fuel and other refined oil products, two months after a similar crude…
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Tankers
Looming Russian products ban has analysts divided
Sunday marks the start of the European Union’s ban on Russian refined product imports, two months on from a similar…
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Tankers
Ton-mile demand generated by Russian crude oil exports has tripled since the start of the war with Ukraine
Analysts at New York-based tanker brokers Poten & Partners have crunched the numbers to highlight how dramatically Russia’s oil exports…
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Gas
GTT halts business in Russia
France’s Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT) has stopped doing business in Russia after analysing the latest European sanction packages which include…
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Ports and Logistics
CMA Terminals divests Russian holdings
CMA CGM has come up with a deal to divest its interests held in Russian ports with Global Ports. The…
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Contributions
Maritime media’s Russia-Ukraine coverage lacks balance
Self-appointed maritime media critic Santosh Patil takes us and others to task over how we have covered this year’s war…
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Tankers
Turkey fixes tanker insurance standoff
Turkey claims to have resolved its tanker insurance impasse, which had seen a slew of ships tied up in its…
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Contributions
Tankers, crimes, and fortunes
Andrew Craig-Bennett delves into the past as he worries about today’s growing dark fleet. Balzac never wrote, “Behind every fortune…
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Tankers
Turkish tanker logjam eases
There are signs that the tanker logjam in and around the Bosporus is easing with another four tankers set to…
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Tankers
Turkey refuses to relent on insurance demands as Bosporus tanker queue lengthens
Turkey will not stand down from its demand that tankers transiting the Bosporus and Dardanelles are inspected to check they…
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Tankers
Russian seaborne crude exports slide in opening days of new ban
Turkey’s decision to check the insurance details of tankers passing through its waters is holding up a growing line of…
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