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Dry Cargo
Magnus Lander named new TransAtlantic boss
TransAtlantic has decided to promote from within in its hunt for a new managing director. Magnus Lander will take the…
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Europe
Viking Supply Ships receives early termination of $100m AHTS contract
Sweden-based Viking Supply Ships has received an early contract termination from an unnamed charterer for its anchor handling tug supply (AHTS)…
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Europe
Norway and Sweden eye offshore solutions to house refugees
Scandinavian countries are looking at maritime solutions to the growing refugee crisis flooding the continent. Norway has followed neighbour Sweden’s…
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Environment
Gothia alliance orders four dual-fuel product tankers
Sweden’s Gothia Tanker Alliance has ordered four dual-fuel intermediate product/chemical tankers with LNG propulsion from Avic Dingheng Shipbuilding in China.…
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Europe
Stena Bulk orders three MR tankers
Sweden’s Stena Bulk has announced today that it has placed an order for three 50,000 dwt MR tankers at China’s…
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Europe
Concordia Maritime and Stena Weco charter in MR product tanker
Concordia Maritime and Stena Weco have jointly chartered in an MR product tanker for two years, plus an optional extension…
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Environment
Furetank: COP21 should target trucking, not shipping
Donsö: The 2015 Paris Climate Conference, or COP21, is right around the corner. Its goal is to achieve a legally…
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Containers
TransAtlantic sells container operations and shipmanagement division
Ongoing consolidation among smaller liners continues with news TransAtlantic, a subsidiary of Sweden’s Viking Supply Ships, is selling its container…
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Europe
TransAtlantic: ‘Shipping is full of old habits that need to be challenged’
Name the two countries within the European Union to have no tonnage tax. Answer? Landlocked Austria and the shipping powerhouse…
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Europe
Det norske oljeselskap acquires Svenska Petroleum Exploration for $75m
Norwegian oil exploration company Det norske oljeselskap (Det norske) has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Svenska…
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Asia
Lundin offloads Indonesia assets
Swedish oil and gas company Lundin Petroleum has sold its oil and gas assets in Indonesia to Indonesian firm PT…
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Europe
Concordia renews Total contract for P-MAX vessels
Concordia Maritime has renewed a contract with France’s Total for 12 months for two vessels. The contract also includes an…
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Bunkering
Shipping becoming greener more quickly than we realise, says Stena Line CEO
The shipping industry is moving towards more sustainable operation faster than expected, but environmental regulation must be enforced internationally through…
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Europe
Sweden to instate new tonnage tax regime from 2016
Sweden will introduce a new tonnage tax regime in 2016 that aims to encourage more ships to sail under the…
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Europe
Concordia Maritime CEO buys stock
Kim Ullman, CEO of Concordia Maritime, has purchased a further 5,000 B shares in the company, increasing his holding in…
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Europe
I-Tech: The rise of antifouling products
Gothenburg: Eight days ago the antifouling biocide Selektope, developed by Sweden’s I-Tech, was approved by the EU standing committee on…
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Europe
Stena Line ferry and tanker collide off Sweden
Gothenburg: Stena Line Roro ferry Stena Jutlandica has been involved in a collision around 2:45am this morning with a tanker…
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Europe
Cement carrier runs aground off Swedish coast
Stockholm: Swedish-flagged cement carrier Sunnanvik (9,060 dwt, built 1978) ran aground late last night around 3 nm off Holmsund, Sweden.…
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Europe
Navix Maritime Chartering wins Kazmortransflot tanker contract
Göteborg: Swedish commercial manager Navix Maritime Chartering has announced a new contract with Kazakhstan’s Kazmortransflot. Navix will manage one of…
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Europe
Neste exits shipowning with sale of product tankers to Donsötank
Athens: Finland’s Neste Corporation is to sell two of its product tankers to Sweden-based Donsötank for an undisclosed sum. The vessels are…
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