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Europe
Concordia Maritime secures new contract for P-MAX tanker
Concordia Maritime has announced that it has secured a new consecutive voyage contract for the P-MAX tanker from an unnamed…
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Europe
Viking Supply bondholders approve standstill agreement
Viking Supply Ships’ investors have approved a standstill agreement, which will stay the Oslo-listed company’s financial obligations to bondholders until…
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Europe
Nuke ship runs aground at Swedish nuclear power plant
A vessel used to move nuclear waste ran aground this morning by a decommissioned nuclear plant in southern Sweden. The…
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Greater China
Stena in for up to eight ropaxes at AVIC International
Stena has come in for up to eight ropaxes at China’s AVIC International Maritime Holdings. The deal is for four…
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Europe
Concordia fixes another P-MAX product tanker on timecharter
Sweden’s Concordia Maritime has fixed another P-MAX product tanker on a three-year timecharter to an unnamed “national oil company”, commencing…
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Europe
‘A rusty ship with poverty wages’: Turkish vessel detained in Sweden
A 32-year-old Turkish general cargo ship has been held by Swedish authorities, amid concern about living conditions onboard and the…
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Europe
Concordia Maritime sends P-MAX out on time charter
Concordia Maritime has signed a contract to charter out a post-panamax (P-MAX) tanker, the second in under a month. The…
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Asia
Lundin sells FPSO to M3nergy for $265m
Sweden’s Lundin Petroleum has entered into an agreement to sell to Malaysia’s M3nergy for $265m. The sale is effective January…
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Europe
Statoil takes 11.93% stake in Lundin Petroleum
Norway’s Statoil has taken up a 11.93% stake in Swedish oil exploration and production firm Lundin Petroleum. Statoil acquired over…
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Europe
Concordia Maritime fixes P-MAX tanker on two-year deal
Concordia Maritime has signed a contract to charter out a post-panamax (P-MAX) tanker for two years to an unnamed Chinese…
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Europe
Thun Tankers takes small product tanker from Nordic
Small product tanker specialist Thun Tankers has announced the acquisition of 7,915dwt product tanker from Nordic Tankers. Thun will rename…
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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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