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Chinese tonnage provider Shanghai Changshun Shipping has added four more 6,150 teu containerships at Yangzhou Guoyu Shipbuilding, taking the series at the yard to 10 vessels. Splash understands the latest signing covers the four options attached to a contract agreed in May for six firm ships and four optional units. Financial terms have not been …
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https://splash247.com/shanghai-changshun-firms-up-guoyu-boxship-quartet/China’s Nanjing Tanker has approved plans to order four MR product and chemical tankers at Guangzhou Shipyard International. The Shanghai-listed owner, part of China Merchants Group, has set aside up to $182.8m for the 50,000 dwt quartet, equivalent to a maximum of $45.7m per ship. The vessels will be contracted through wholly owned subsidiary Nanjing …
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https://splash247.com/nanjing-tanker-books-four-mrs-at-gsi/The disgraced former chairman of DP World, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, has assumed interim leadership of Malaysia’s MMC Port Holdings following the immediate departure of group CEO Azman Shah Mohd Yusof. An internal company memo seen by Reuters states that all matters previously handled by the group CEO will now be referred directly to bin …
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https://splash247.com/bin-sulayem-takes-interim-control-at-mmc-ports/A collision involving a wind turbine installation vessel has brought down a gantry crane onto a containership at the port of Tyne in northeast England, leaving one person injured. The incident occurred shortly after 1pm on Sunday as Cadeler’s Wind Orca was leaving its berth at the port’s offshore wind staging facility. The installation vessel …
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https://splash247.com/collision-topples-crane-at-uk-port/Commercial shipping across the Black Sea has endured one of its most violent weekends of the war, with Russian attacks on foreign-flagged vessels and Ukrainian drone strikes against ships serving Russian trade. The deadliest incident came on Sunday when the Turkish-owned, Guinea-Bissau-flagged Golden Leo was hit by three Russian cruise missiles after sailing from the …
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https://splash247.com/black-sea-ships-come-under-deadly-weekend-assault/Suspected Somali pirates have hijacked the Tanzanian-flagged tanker Asana off Yemen and taken the vessel towards the northeastern coast of Somalia. The 1992-built chemical tanker was seized on Friday after departing Mukalla, according to the Yemeni Coast Guard and regional security sources. Seven armed pirates are believed to have boarded the ship before assuming control. …
https://splash247.com/somali-pirates-seize-tanker-off-yemen-and-steer-it-towards-puntland/
https://splash247.com/somali-pirates-seize-tanker-off-yemen-and-steer-it-towards-puntland/The threat to commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz has intensified after Iran claimed two unidentified oil tankers exploded and were immobilised while attempting to use the waterway’s southern passage. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said the vessels had entered what it described as an unsafe or mined route under US pressure. It provided …
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https://splash247.com/hormuz-transits-fall-sharply-amid-escalating-conflict/Shanghai-listed China Merchants Energy Shipping has lined up six very large ore carriers in a related-party deal worth up to RMB4.93bn ($728m). The 343,000 dwt vessels will be built by a yard under sister company China Merchants Shipbuilding Industry, with deliveries scheduled across 2029 and 2030. The investment works out at a maximum of around …
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https://splash247.com/china-merchants-maps-out-728m-vloc-order/The United States struck bridges and an airport in Iran on Friday, provoking Tehran to respond by hitting a power and desalination plant in Kuwait, as the warring foes risked further escalation by expanding their targets to include infrastructure.At sea…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/us-iran-renew-conflict-strikes-bridge-541325
https://www.marinelink.com/news/us-iran-renew-conflict-strikes-bridge-541325The U.S. Interior Department has proposed a lease of more than 31 million acres off the coast of American Samoa for seabed mining, part of President Donald Trump's broader push to boost U.S. critical minerals production.The waters around the…
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