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Andrew Craig-Bennett provides readers with a rundown on liner shipping in 2025, as well as making some predictions for next year. The containership charter market has managed to get to the end of 2025 without falling off the tightrope into the abyss of oversupply. It has wobbled a bit, but the rope has carried it …
https://splash247.com/a-year-spent-avoiding-the-boxship-abyss/
https://splash247.com/a-year-spent-avoiding-the-boxship-abyss/Greece’s Cape Shipping is weighing a move into the VLCC segment, extending a rapid tanker expansion by the Andrianopoulos family after several years focused on dry bulk and container shipping. Market sources say the Athens-based owner has tapped CSSC Qingdao Beihai for the construction of a scrubber-fitted 319,000 dwt crude carrier, with delivery pencilled in …
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https://splash247.com/cape-shipping-eyes-vlcc-entry-as-tanker-expansion-continues/Vietnamese logistics player Truong Hai Group is moving up a gear in container shipping, ordering a pair of bangkokmax vessels that will be the largest ships in its fleet to date. According to Alphaliner, Truong Hai International Logistics (Thilogi) has placed firm orders for two bangkokmax container ships at Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard (GWS) in China. …
https://splash247.com/vietnams-truong-hai-steps-up-boxship-ambitions-with-orders-in-china/
https://splash247.com/vietnams-truong-hai-steps-up-boxship-ambitions-with-orders-in-china/Taiwanese boxship owner Wan Hai Lines has returned to the newbuilding market, placing an order for six 6,000 teu dual-fuel LNG-powered units as it continues to expand and modernise its owned fleet. The Taipei-headquartered line said in a Taiwan Stock Exchange filing the vessels will be built at CSSC Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding in China. Prices …
https://splash247.com/wan-hai-heads-to-chinese-yard-for-lng-powered-newbuilds/
https://splash247.com/wan-hai-heads-to-chinese-yard-for-lng-powered-newbuilds/Two of the biggest names in energy shipping have quietly exited the Sea Cargo Charter, raising fresh questions about industry commitment to voluntary emissions transparency and decarbonisation. Shell and Chevron — both longstanding signatories to the Sea Cargo Charter’s framework for assessing and reporting climate alignment in shipping activities — are no longer listed among …
Traditionally in shipping, alarm bells tend to ring for investors when the orderbook-to-fleet ratio of a sector goes above 30%. For certain segments today, notably LNG, LPG and megamax containerships, that ratio is at record levels, and yet analysts contacted by Splash Extra for December’s lead story are generally sanguine about this tonnage overhang. Analysts …
https://splash247.com/why-shipping-isnt-panicking-over-swollen-orderbooks/
https://splash247.com/why-shipping-isnt-panicking-over-swollen-orderbooks/Sweden’s navy has confirmed that Russia is mounting a military-style operation in the Baltic Sea to protect its sanctioned shadow fleet, with uniformed and potentially armed personnel observed aboard some oil tankers used to evade Western sanctions on Russian crude exports. According to Sweden’s naval operations chief, the increased activity reflects a more permanent Russian …
https://splash247.com/swedish-navy-flags-armed-guards-aboard-russian-shadow-tankers/
https://splash247.com/swedish-navy-flags-armed-guards-aboard-russian-shadow-tankers/In a major escalation of maritime pressure on Caracas, US president Donald Trump has ordered “a total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going into, and out of, Venezuela,” intensifying efforts to squeeze president Nicolás Maduro’s lifeline crude exports. The dramatic declaration, posted on social media and backed by a growing US naval …
Greek tanker newcomer Venergy Maritime has moved to diversify its fleet, placing its first order in the containership segment after an active year in tanker newbuildings. The Piraeus-based owner, led by Vyron Vasileiadis, has signed up for up to four 1,900 teu feeder container vessels at CSSC’s Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding. The deal covers two firm …
https://splash247.com/venergy-steps-into-boxships-with-feeder-newbuild-deal-in-china/
https://splash247.com/venergy-steps-into-boxships-with-feeder-newbuild-deal-in-china/U.S. President Donald Trump ordered on Tuesday a "blockade" of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, in Washington's latest move to increase pressure on Nicolas Maduro's government, targeting its main source of income.It…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/trump-targets-venezuelan-oil-exports-533605
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