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Iron ore futures traded in a tight price range on Tuesday, as investors weighed prospects of fresh stimulus from Beijing next month against signs of softening demand in top consumer China. The most-traded January iron ore contract on China’s Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) closed daytime trade 0.2% higher at 763 yuan ($107.12) a metric ton. ...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/iron-ore-rangebound-amid-fresh-stimulus-hopes-and-softening-demand-signs/In the Pilbara, BHP is doubling down on growth, pledging A$1.4 billion to enhance Port Hedland infrastructure and sustain export capacity near 305 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa). The investment signals confidence in steady, high-volume output from Western Australian miners through 2026. Brazil’s Vale posted 94.4 Mt in Q3 2025, its strongest quarterly output since ...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/iron-ores-shifting-currents-supply-surge-meets-china-slowdown/
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/iron-ores-shifting-currents-supply-surge-meets-china-slowdown/The Baltic Exchange’s dry bulk sea freight index, which monitors rates for vessels moving dry bulk commodities, ticked down on Tuesday, pressured by falling capesize vessel rates. The main index, which factors in rates for capesize, panamax and supramax shipping vessels, fell 12 points, or 0.6%, to 2,072 points. The capesize index lost 71 points, ...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/baltic-index-edges-down-on-weak-capesize-rates/
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/baltic-index-edges-down-on-weak-capesize-rates/Monaco-based Scorpio Tankers has made a surprise return to the crude carrier newbuilding market after more than a decade, signing up for two very large crude carriers (VLCCs) at South Korean yard Hanwha Ocean. The New York-listed product tanker giant has inked letters of intent for the 320,000 dwt units, each priced at around $128m. …
https://splash247.com/scorpio-tankers-back-in-vlcc-game-with-hanwha-ocean-deal/
https://splash247.com/scorpio-tankers-back-in-vlcc-game-with-hanwha-ocean-deal/With everything going on around the maritime industry these days — from a Presidential Executive Order to Make U.S. Maritime Great Again, to bipartisan legislation in Congress to boost our shipyards and merchant marine, to the import tariff…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/commercial-vessels-vida-usher-new-era-532260
https://www.marinelink.com/news/commercial-vessels-vida-usher-new-era-532260As oil exploration and production goes, so goes the market for Offshore Service Vessels (OSVs) and Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs). Throughout 2025, the prices of oil- which drives exploration and production (E & P), have softened, moving down…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/offshore-service-vessels-regional-bright-532261
https://www.marinelink.com/news/offshore-service-vessels-regional-bright-532261In a previous article, we explored how shrinking attention spans demand new approaches to training. But atten-tion is only part of the story. Memory itself is changing. Today’s mariners, like the rest of us, live in a world of instant answers…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/maritime-training-training-a-brain-built-532263
https://www.marinelink.com/news/maritime-training-training-a-brain-built-532263A new generation of hybrid vessels is demonstrating significant gains in both fuel economy and operational output. For Olympic Subsea’s owner and CEO Stig Remøy, it proves that technology-led efficiency is the fastest path to decarbonization…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/efficiency-first-inside-olympic-subseas-532266
https://www.marinelink.com/news/efficiency-first-inside-olympic-subseas-532266SFL posts Q3 2025 revenue of $178 million and net income of $8.6 million; declares 87th consecutive quarterly dividend of $0.20 per share.Contracted charter backlog reaches $4 billion with a weighted average term of 6.5 years, two-thirds backed…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/sfl-posts-steady-q-invests-fleet-532269
https://www.marinelink.com/news/sfl-posts-steady-q-invests-fleet-532269On October 28, 2025 U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation’s Subcommittee on Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries, convened the Senate hearing “Sea Change: Reviving Commercial Shipbuilding”.
https://www.marinelink.com/news/domestic-shipbuilding-creates-us-port-532272
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