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China has launched its first sea-river intermodal zero-carbon shipping route, adding another building block to the country’s fast-growing electric vessel ecosystem. The service started with the departure this week of the 10,000-ton-class pure electric containership Ningyuan Dianpeng from Jiaxing port in Zhejiang province to Ningbo-Zhoushan port. The 127.8 m long vessel has capacity for 742 …
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https://splash247.com/china-opens-first-zero-carbon-sea-river-electric-container-route/Greek owner Tsakos Energy Navigation has ordered a second LNG carrier at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea. The New York-listed tanker and gas carrier player said the vessel is expected to deliver in the first quarter of 2029. No price or charter details were disclosed for the latest unit. The order lifts TEN’s …
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https://splash247.com/tsakos-expands-lng-fleet-with-fresh-hd-hyundai-order/A tanker was boarded by armed pirates in the Gulf of Aden approximately 76 nautical miles south of Balhaf, Yemen on Tuesday in the latest attack on merchant shipping. The pirate action group, comprising four individuals armed with RPGs and other weapons, approached the vessel in a small boat. Overtaken, the crew stopped the vessel …
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https://splash247.com/pirates-board-and-damage-tanker-south-of-yemen/What the shape of the attention tells us about who is winning in the Strait of Hormuz. By crisis communications consultant Dustin Eno. The Maritime Attention Index (MAI), a standardised measure of how much real attention shipping is getting, has now sat above its long-term average for longer than at any point since we started …
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https://splash247.com/the-danger-of-stories-that-refuse-to-fade/Indirect technical talks between Washington and Tehran in Doha concluded this week with a narrow understanding to keep the Strait of Hormuz quiet for seven days – buying time for negotiations that are, two weeks into a 60-day window, still deadlocked over the terms of a memorandum of understanding both sides have already signed. The …
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https://splash247.com/hormuz-dispute-shifts-from-access-to-control/AP Moller Holding has agreed to acquire Norwegian shipleasing specialist Ocean Yield from funds managed by US investment company Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR). No price was disclosed for the deal, which will see a subsidiary of the Danish investment company take 100% of the Lysaker-based owner. Under KKR ownership, Ocean Yield invested more than $3bn …
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https://splash247.com/ap-moller-holding-takes-over-ocean-yield/Germany's top prosecutor has indicted a Ukrainian national over the 2022 explosions that crippled the Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea, moving one of Europe's most politically sensitive sabotage cases closer to trial.The indictment against the man…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/german-prosecutors-charge-ukrainian-nord-540859IACS announced that, with effect from July 1, Mr Alex Gregg-Smith, President Marine & Offshore at Bureau Veritas, has assumed his duties as Chair of the IACS Council having been unanimously elected in December 2025.In preparation, Alex Chaired…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/alex-greggsmith-takes-iacs-council-chair-540841Greensea Systems, Inc., d.b.a, Greensea IQ, won a $18,154,710 Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide hardware, software, and engineering technical services for underwater controllers used to operate autonomous and remotely operated systems in maritime environments.
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/greensea-iq-wins-m-navy-contract-540844U.S. shipments of limestone on the Great Lakes increased 4.5 percent from June 2025 to 3 million tons. This June’s U.S. loadings were also above the month’s 5-year average by 6.9 percent.Year-to-date, the Lakes U.S. limestone trade stands at nearly 7 million tons…
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