Turkey
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Dry Cargo
Beks Shipmanagement linked to its first cape deal
Istanbul-based Beks Shipmanagement is reported joining a string of other Turkish owners, trying their luck in the secondhand market. This…
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Dry Cargo
Ciner orders ultramax quartet in China
This month, Turgay Ciner and his Ciner Ship Management has fattened the outfit’s bulker arm significantly. Over the weekend, brokers…
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Operations
Erdogan on hand as $15bn Istanbul canal construction starts
Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan was on hand this Saturday as construction of the Kanal Istanbul got underway, one of the…
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Operations
Erdogan vows to start construction of controversial Istanbul canal this month
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has insisted construction of a long-planned canal linking the Black Sea and the Sea of…
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Operations
Turkish ship capsizes at Castellon, one dead and one missing
The 1986-built 1,600 dwt general cargo ship capsized during cargo loading operations at Port of Castellon in Spain on Friday…
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Offshore
Wilhelmsen chosen by Botas to manage Turkish FSRU
Singapore-headquartered Wilhelmsen Ship Management has been appointed ship manager by Turkey’s Botas for the first Turkish-flagged floating storage and regasification…
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Environment
Turkey bans open-loop scrubbers
Turkey has become the latest country to ban the use of open-loop scrubbers in its territorial waters. According to the…
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Shipyards
Port Qasim Authority orders six Sanmar boats
Port Qasim Authority (PQA) in Pakistan has ordered four tugboats and two pilot boats from Sanmar Shipyards in Turkey for…
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Containers
MSC ship suffers severe gash while berthing in Turkey
The 19,224 teu suffered a nasty allision with a pier in Turkey on Saturday. The 398.5m long ship has a…
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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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