Turkey
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Operations
15 crew hostages freed
Fifteen Turkish sailors kidnapped by pirates last month in the Gulf of Guinea were freed in Nigeria late last week…
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Operations
Boxship attacked in Gulf of Guinea, 15 crew kidnapped and one dead
The 2,824 teu containership was attacked by pirates near Sao Tome in the Gulf of Guinea yesterday, while it was…
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Operations
Seven feared dead as ship sinks off Turkey
A Palau-flagged general cargo ship sank off the coast of Turkey’s Black Sea province of Bartin, with four of the…
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Europe
Cenk takes ageing roro from Grimaldi
Malta Motorways of the Seas, a company fully controlled by Grimaldi Group, has just sold the 1995-built roro Euroferry Malta…
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Dry Cargo
Densay Shipping orders up to three ultramaxes at China Merchants Jinling
Turkish shipowner Densay Shipping has returned to China Merchants Jinling shipyard for the construction of up to three 63,500 dwt…
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Finance and Insurance
Ciner Shipping inks sale and leaseback with CSSC Shipping for newbuild suezmax tanker pair
Ciner Shipping, led by Turkish owner Turgay Ciner, has entered into an agreement with CSSC Shipping, the financial leasing unit…
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Dry Cargo
Derin Denizcilik Gemi exits shipowning
Turkey’s Derin Denizcilik Gemi brief foray into shipowning has come to a close. Broker sources tell Splash that the three-ship…
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Ports and Logistics
Taranto seals container business return
French line CMA CGM has officially announced that from July 10 it will call at the port of Taranto on…
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Europe
Palmali tankers head for auction for the third time
The creditors of the bankrupt Rostov-based shipping company Palmali have put the company’s crude tanker and barge fleet up for…
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Shipyards
Turkish yard spent record 149 days installing a scrubber
When marketed in the run-up to the global sulphur cap, scrubber retrofits were meant to take as little as a…
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Europe
Dublin bans Turkish livestock carrier pair
The Irish government has banned the operator of two regular livestock carriers, the Atlantic M and the Express 1, from…
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Europe
Eko Shipping takes bulker from Nova Marine Carriers
Turkish company Eko Shipping emerged this week as the buyer of modern small bulker , sold by Switzerland’s Nova Marine Carriers.…
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Europe
Songa boxship grounding shuts Bosphorus strait
A containership owned by Arne Blystad’s Songa Container ran aground on Friday, leading to the suspension of shipping through the…
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Europe
Advantage takes Chinese VLCC duo
Turkish outfit Advantage Tankers has emerged as the taker of two 10-year -old VLCCs from China VLCC, adding the New…
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Europe
Yasa orders suezmax pair at Daehan
Brokers report Turkish owner Yasa has placed placed an order for two firm suezmax tankers at Daehan in South Korea.…
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Europe
Turkish owner Aksoy Denizcilik cuts bulker fleet in two
Brokers tell Splash that Aksoy Denizcilik’s $2.7 m investment from April 2016 has payed off in style. A couple of…
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Europe
Belships offloads supramax bulker via charter with purchase obligation
Norway’s Belships has agreed to sell 2006-built supramax bulker to Turkey’s Marti Shipping & Ship Management. The vessel, which is…
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Europe
Karadeniz takes aframax
Turkey’s Karadeniz Holding, the creator of increasingly popular floating power stations made from converted merchant ships, has bought an 18-year-old…
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Asia
MOL targets Turkey’s steel sector
Japan’s largest shipowner Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) is looking to make dry bulk inroads into Turkey. MOL has signed an…
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Asia
MOL and Karadeniz move ahead with floating gas power station venture
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and Karadeniz Holding are pushing ahead with the first LNG powership project under new brand KARMOL.…
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