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ABS Wavesight, the ABS-affiliated software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, announced the launch of ABS Wavesight Advantage, a new platform designed to transform regulatory complexity into operational clarity. The platform connects vessels, shore teams…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/abs-wavesight-introduces-regulatory-529568ABS Wavesight, the software subsidiary of classification society American Bure of Shipping (ABS), has launched Wavesight Advantage, a unified digital platform aimed at helping shipowners manage regulatory compliance, emissions reporting, and fleet efficiency.The platform integrates vessel…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/abs-rolls-unified-digital-tool-simplify-529569Russia’s efforts to gain access to China’s vast wheat market have stalled due to Beijing’s reluctance to authorize imports of Russian winter wheat, Agriculture Minister Oksana Lut was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies on Tuesday. Russia is the world’s top wheat exporter, and Lut is part of a delegation of officials and business ...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/russias-bid-to-gain-access-to-chinas-wheat-market-still-stalled-agriculture-minister-says/UK’s largest offshore trade union, Unite, is holding an industrial action ballot for Altrad workers on EnQuest-operated Magnus and Thistle Alpha platforms. The pay dispute is based on Altrad Employment Services’ reneging on a 4% wage increase, which is due to approximately 50 workers on the platforms, effective January 1, under the Offshore Energy Services …
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https://splash247.com/altrad-workers-on-enquest-platforms-to-be-balloted-on-strike-action/Semisub rig owner Dolphin Drilling has signed a letter of intent with an undisclosed client for one of its rigs. According to the company, the letter of intent was signed for the 1977-built Borgland Dolphin. If the LOI is turned into a firm contract, it is expected to have a value of approximately $58m. The …
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https://splash247.com/dolphin-drilling-lines-up-drilling-contract/Oman will build an integrated green ship recycling facility in the north of the country. The new facility – a joint venture between the state and a Jordanian company – will be able to dismantle more than 70 ships annually. Other countries in the Middle East are looking at establishing ship recycling yards. Earlier this …
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https://splash247.com/oman-to-build-green-ship-recycling-yard/The wet secondhand market has picked up pace this week with a string of VLCC deals. Malaysia’s MISC, via its tanker arm AET, has offloaded two Universal-built tankers – the 2007-built Bunga Kasturi Lima (300,246 dwt) and the 2008-built Bunga Kasturi Enam (299,319 dwt) – to Chinese interests for approximately $88m en bloc. One unit …
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https://splash247.com/vlcc-sales-tick-over/Chinese bulker owner Fujian Highton Development has continued its fleet expansion, grabbing a pair of multipurpose general cargo vessels in the secondhand market. The fast-growing company revealed in a stock exchange that two of its subsidiaries had struck deals with German owner Braren Roerd for the 2011 Huanghai Shipbuilding-built Pacific Hero and Pacific Honour at …
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https://splash247.com/fujian-highton-picks-up-mpp-brace-from-braren-roerd/The US Treasury Department has imposed fresh sanctions on a shipping network accused of moving Iranian oil under the cover of Iraqi origin. Washington said the group, led by Iraqi–St. Kitts & Nevis businessman Waleed Khaled Hameed al-Samarra’i and based in the UAE, blended Iranian barrels with Iraqi crude and sold them as if they …
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https://splash247.com/us-cracks-down-on-tanker-network-smuggling-iranian-oil/The penny has finally well and truly dropped on the whole spend to save in shipping debate with the industry more willing to shell out for tech than it was in the past, according to Ben Palmer, the president of sat comms giant Inmarsat Maritime. “We’re seeing a shift from ‘if’ to ‘how,’” Palmer tells …
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