Greek owner United Maritime is expanding its dry bulk fleet with the addition of three secondhand vessels. The Nasdaq-listed spinoff of Greek capsize specialist Seanergy Maritime, with two capes and one LR2 tanker in its fleet, has bought a pair of kamsarmax bulkers from an unnamed seller and bareboat chartered-in a panamax from a Japanese …
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Carisbrooke Shipping has partnered with Carnot whose consortium has been awarded £2.3m ($2.75m) to develop a zero-emission 50kW hydrogen auxiliary engine demonstrator. Following design, simulations and s testing, the single-fuel hydrogen engine will be integrated into a containerised system and mounted on the deck of one of Carisbrooke’s vessels for a 40-day sea trial in …
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Latsis company Latsco has booked an additional pair of very large gas carriers at Hyundai Heavy Industries’ shipyard in Ulsan for KRW252.8bn ($195m). Clarksons identified the Paris Kassidokostas-Latsis led diversified owner as the “Oceanian” player behind the order Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), the shipbuilding holding company of HHI, revealed in a regulatory filing …
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Canada’s Algoma Central Corporation and CSL have ordered four new methanol-ready self-unloading bulk carriers at Jiangsu Yangzi-Mitsui Shipbuilding (YAMIC). The order placed at the joint venture between China’s Yangzijiang Shipbuilding and Japan’s Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding has been split between the partners, who together form the CSL International Pool. “We are reinvesting with confidence in a …
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Tankers have gone from multi-decade lows to near historical highs over the past 12 months, with a number of records being broken. Average tanker earnings are now on track to have remained above $40,000 a day for eight months, the longest stretch on record, according to data from Clarksons Research. Likewise, Clarkson Research’s secondhand tanker …
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An order for 10 dual-fuel 11,500 teu ships by Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) has been confirmed in China. China International Marine Containers (CIMC), which has a 30% stake in Zhoushan Changhong International Shipyard, has detailed the ship orders with MSC opting for LNG dual-fuel, with the ships coming as methanol-ready when they deliver in 2025 …
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Stand by… The future of shipping is coming! A bold statement on the homepage of the short-lived Focus Container Line, which has become the latest new entrant into container shipping to run into financial difficulties. Liquidators in Brisbane have been appointed this week to oversee the demise of the trans-Tasman liner, which launched a service …
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Norway’s Island Offshore has secured a contract with Equinor for the battery hybrid platform supply vessel . The 2009-built vessel, currently on spot fixture with the Norwegian energy giant, has been fixed for a period of seven months with two options of two months each. Following this contract, Island Offshore now has two PSVs and …
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Norwegian owner Klaveness Combination Carriers (KCC) has secured a new charter contract with an undisclosed leading energy player for one of its Cleanbu vessels. KCC chief executive Engebret Dahm said the two-year deal further strengthens and expands the already established close relationship with the charterer in question. KCC operates eight Cabu and eight Cleanbu combination …
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Japanese firms Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and MOL Marine & Engineering Co (MOLMEC) have been granted basic approval from ClassNK for two new training courses related to offshore wind power generation. The courses, for power cable laying and anchor handling training…
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