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The next digital race is not about collecting more data. It is about getting the right information to the right decision-maker before the opportunity to act has passed. The latest chapter from SplashTech’s annual report. Shipping has spent much of the past decade wiring up its ships. Engines, generators, fuel-flow meters, navigation equipment, shaft-power meters, …
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https://splash247.com/drowning-in-data-starving-for-decisions/Nicolas Hadjioannou-controlled Alassia NewShips Management has expanded its dry bulk orderbook to seven vessels after adding three ultramaxes and another handysize to its newbuilding pipeline. The Athens-based owner’s updated fleet list shows three 64,000 dwt ultramaxes lined up for delivery in 2029, together with a 40,000 dwt handysize scheduled for 2030. The builders of all …
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https://splash247.com/alassia-stretches-bulker-newbuild-programme-to-seven-ships/India’s Great Eastern Shipping spending on secondhand tonnage this year has raced past the $200m mark. Last week, the Mumbai-listed company announced it had agreed to acquire an unnamed 2015-built vessel, with delivery scheduled between October and December. The 81,886 dwt bulker will be financed entirely from internal cash. Now broker sources say the seller …
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https://splash247.com/great-easterns-spending-on-secondhand-tonnage-this-year-races-past-200m/George Procopiou’s Dynacom has returned to Hengli Heavy Industries with another eight newbuildings in a package worth close to $1bn, further expanding one of the largest owner-yard programmes in shipping. Hengli has confirmed contracts covering eight vessels spanning VLCCs and 93,000 cu m very large ammonia carriers. The yard has not publicly broken down the …
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https://splash247.com/procopiou-lines-up-near-1bn-hengli-eight-ship-package/Shipping may never become predictable. The smarter objective is to make commercial decisions that remain strong even when the assumptions behind them move. Natalia Liashenko, founder and CEO of Marine Solver, explains. Shipping has never operated in a stable environment. Freight markets turn, bunker prices move, congestion builds, weather disrupts schedules and geopolitical events can …
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https://splash247.com/the-case-for-decisions-that-survive-the-forecast/Japanese liner Ocean Network Express (ONE) is looking 24 years into the future to help decide where to put its money today, adopting a planning technique that is spreading through shipping as well as governments and some of the world’s largest international organisations. Rather than forecasting forwards from present-day trends, so-called backcasting starts with a …
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https://splash247.com/backcasting-enters-the-shipping-mainstream/Russia is stacking shipping containers around oil refineries in the latest improvised attempt to protect an energy system that has been battered by increasingly effective Ukrainian drone attacks. Images carried by Dnipro Osint from the Novoshakhtinsk refinery show containers piled several levels high around tanks and processing equipment, creating walls intended to provide some protection …
Middle Eastern shipping patterns face another violent reshuffle after fresh vessel attacks around Hormuz, the shutdown of Saudi Arabia’s critical East-West oil pipeline and the Houthis’ advance into the heart of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Two more commercial vessels were attacked on Sunday. The Panama-flagged 47,999 dwt product tanker El Gaia was struck off Oman, …
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https://splash247.com/middle-east-shipping-squeezed-as-hormuz-and-bab-el-mandeb-risks-converge/Trelleborg Marine and Infrastructure and Simwave are launching the first modules of Trelleborg's specialized transfer equipment-focused training program at Gastech 2026 in Bangkok, marking a milestone in the companies' ongoing strategic partnership.
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/trelleborg-simwave-launch-transfer-542896Saudi Arabia has shut down its East-West pipeline, after the vital oil conduit came under aerial attack in the widening Middle East war, threatening to send energy prices even higher.The world’s largest crude oil exporter said it temporarily…
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