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With the global maritime industry grappling with a tightening talent pool, ageing officer demographics, and rising demands for digital and adaptive skills, Anglo-Eastern, the world’s largest shipmanager, has unveiled Mission 30, a landmark initiative aimed at empowering young talent within its seafaring ranks. The program sets an ambitious target: to increase the percentage of management-level …
Shunyu Shipping, a joint venture between state-run Xiamen Xiangyu and Shunda Mining, has officially launched focusing on the capesize trades between China and West Africa. Backed by Xiangyu’s extensive expertise in international commodity trading and Shunda’s mining operations in Guinea, Shunyu aims to control the full logistics chain from ore extraction in Africa to steel …
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https://splash247.com/new-chinese-owner-focuses-on-guinea-cape-trades/The car carrier Morning Midas, adrift off the coast of Alaska, is still burning, with the first tug arriving at the scene on Monday. The fire on the Zodiac Maritime-managed 4,902 ceu car carrier started a week ago, on June 3, during the vessel’s voyage from Mexico to Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico. The vessel is chartered …
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https://splash247.com/morning-midas-completely-burned-through-as-salvors-arrive-on-scene/Maersk has shown the way for other shipping sectors to radically shift ship design with the decision it took earlier this decade to shift accommodation blocks forward for a series of methanol-fuelled boxships. Other sectors are now looking at similar shifts. Two new projects focus on relocating the crew living quarters and navigation bridge from …
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https://splash247.com/could-forward-accommodation-blocks-become-mainstream/Singapore-based, Japanese-owned carrier Ocean Network Express (ONE) has been tied to a recent order for a new series of large containerships placed at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries. On Tuesday, HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (HD KSOE) announced that an Asia-based client had commissioned eight 15,900 teu vessels in a deal worth around $1.76bn. While …
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https://splash247.com/one-tied-to-1-76bn-south-korean-boxship-order/The U.S. Trade Representative softened fee proposals for non-U.S.-built LNG tankers and car carriers amid its ongoing effort to counter China's dominance on the high seas and revive domestic shipbuilding.The revised proposal, unveiled by USTR on Friday…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/ustr-eases-proposed-fees-nonus-lng-526651
https://www.marinelink.com/news/ustr-eases-proposed-fees-nonus-lng-526651The international treaty on the high seas, which focuses on conservation and sustainable use of maritime areas beyond national jurisdictions, has received sufficient support to take effect early in 2026, French President Emmanuel Macron said…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/oceans-protection-treaty-effect-january-526652The latest edition of the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Investment report demonstrates how the global energy scene has changed from when the first edition of the report in 2015 showed energy investment in China just edging ahead of that of the United States.Today…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/china-leads-world-energy-investment-526653A salvage team has arrived at the scene of the burning car carrier Morning Midas, located approximately 220 miles south of Adak, Alaska.The US Coast Guard received the initial report of the fire Tuesday, June 3, at approximately 3:15 p.m. and has been working closely with Zodiac Maritime…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/salvors-arrive-burning-car-carrier-526656Shipping is entering an exciting, potentially transformative era over the coming decade, reckons Ben Palmer, the president of Inmarsat Maritime. The question he has though, is whether the industry will be able to grab all the opportunities out there, or will its conservative, fragmented nature hold it back? “The fundamental shipping business model has not …
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