Taiwan
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Greater China
China Steel Express orders capesize pair at CSBC
China Steel Express, the shipping unit of Taiwan’s China Steel Corporation, has placed an order at local yard CSBC for…
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Greater China
Evergreen Marine in for twenty 11,000 teu boxships
Taiwanese shipping line Evergreen Marine has announced a major fleet expansion plan in which the company will bring in a…
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Containers
Boxship takes out crane at Keelung Port
Handysize containership crashed into a crane while berthing at Taiwan’s Keelung Port on Monday night. The crane collapsed after the…
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Dry Cargo
Brokers wary as Nobu Su plans dry bulk return
Nobu Su’s attempts to get back into dry bulk shipping are meeting a series of speedbumps with brokers and financiers…
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Greater China
New cross-strait shipping route launched
Taiwan Wagon Group and Pingtan Transportation Group will jointly launch a new cross-strait shipping service this week. The service will…
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Europe
Diana Containerships fixes post-panamax boxship to Wan Hai
Greece’s Diana Containerships has entered into a time charter contract with Taiwan’s Wan Hai Lines for 2008-built post-panamax container vessel…
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Greater China
CSBC and GeosSea form offshore wind joint venture
Taiwanese shipbuilder CSBC Corporation has entered into a joint venture agreement with marine engineering firm GeoSea, a unit of Belgium’s…
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Asia
Taiwanese owner takes shipping as a casino maxim literally
The shipping business is compared to the gaming industry ad nauseam. Now, however, one Taiwanese shipowner has taken that synonym…
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Greater China
Wisdom Marine orders bulker duo at Kawasaki Heavy Industries
Taiwanese bulker owner Wisdom Marine has announced that the board has approved a deal to order two 61,000 dwt bulk…
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Americas
Brand new Kuang Ming bulker refloated after grounding in Columbia River
A brand new bulk carrier owned by Taiwan’s Kuang Ming Shipping was successfully refloated after running aground in the Columbia River…
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Greater China
Yang Ming strikes new path with Taiwan’s port body
Fresh from an injection of cash from the state Yang Ming Marine Transport has detailed plans to scrap 20 ships…
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Greater China
Nobu Su takes to YouTube to air claims of money laundering
Nobu Su, the fallen Taiwanese shipowner turned serial maritime inventor, has uploaded a short documentary to YouTube, available below, in…
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Europe
FrontMarine orders eight ultramaxes at New Times
Cyprus’s FrontMarine is in for eight 63,000 dwt bulkers at New Times Shipbuilding with brokers Allied reporting a cheap price…
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Greater China
Formosa Plastics adds three more MRs at Guangzhou
Taiwanese tanker giant Formosa Plastics has returned to Guangzhou for more MRs. Clarksons Research notes in its latest weekly report…
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Greater China
Yang Ming eyes orders for 20 boxships
Taiwanese owner Yang Ming Marine Transport is considering a plan to order 20 containerships made up of mega boxships and…
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Greater China
Indonesian seafarer dies after falling from Wan Hai boxship
A seafarer died yesterday after falling from the 1993-built Wan Hai Lines containership at Taichung Port. The incident happened when…
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Greater China
Wisdom Marine acquires handysize bulker
Taiwanese bulker owner Wisdom Marine has sealed a deal to acquire a 38,000 dwt secondhand bulk carrier. Wisdom will pay…
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Greater China
Creditor banks take over Ching Fu Shipbuilding
Ching Fu Shipbuilding, Taiwan’s largest private shipyard, has been taken over by creditor banks due to a financial crisis, following…
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Greater China
Seafarer dies onboard Shih Wei bulker at Bunbury Port
A Chinese seafarer died yesterday onboard the 2010-built bulker while it was at Bunbury Port in Western Australia. The 23-year…
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Dry Cargo
Wisdom Marine cancels plan to enter tanker sector
Taiwanese owner Wisdom Marine has cancelled plans to build two 115,000dwt aframax tankers at Japan Marine United. Wisdom Marine approved…
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