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South Korea’s SK Shipping is set to double its LNG carrier fleet to 32 ships under a 28-vessel reshuffle with sister company H-Line Shipping. Private equity owner Hahn & Co said SK Shipping will take 16 LNG carriers and their long-term charters from H-Line in exchange for 12 tankers and associated contracts, along with around …
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https://splash247.com/sk-shipping-takes-aim-at-asia-lng-top-spot-in-h-line-tanker-swap/A Singapore-flagged containership ran aground on the Hooghly River after striking an embankment near Diamond Harbour, about 50 km south of Kolkata, in an incident attributed to steering failure and strong currents. The Regional Container Lines (RCL)-owned 13,852 dwt Nawata Bhum was inbound to Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port in Kolkata from Port Klang in Malaysia when …
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https://splash247.com/boxship-runs-aground-near-kolkata-after-steering-failure/Willem Vermaat, shipping director at Heidelberg Materials Trading, heads to Splash Singapore next month arguing that better technology will make shipping more transparent, but that the hardest chartering decisions will still come down to human judgement. Greater transparency rather than artificial intelligence itself could prove the most important technological development for shipping over the coming …
https://splash247.com/splash-singapore-heidelbergs-willem-vermaat-on-when-the-algorithm-looks-away/
https://splash247.com/splash-singapore-heidelbergs-willem-vermaat-on-when-the-algorithm-looks-away/Chrome ore has emerged as the fastest-growing dry bulk commodity trade of 2026, as the collapse of South Africa’s ferrochrome smelting industry pushes greater volumes of unprocessed ore onto ships bound principally for Asia. Chrome ore is used primarily to make ferrochrome, an alloy of chromium and iron. Ferrochrome is then added to steel to …
https://splash247.com/chrome-ore-emerges-as-dry-bulks-biggest-grower-in-2026/
https://splash247.com/chrome-ore-emerges-as-dry-bulks-biggest-grower-in-2026/Russia and Ukraine have traded some of the heaviest blows against each other’s maritime infrastructure of the four-and-a-half-year war, pushing the Black Sea’s grain trade deeper into the firing line. Russia struck the area around Izmail, Ukraine’s largest Danube port, overnight Thursday, damaging port infrastructure and starting a fire. The attack came barely 24 hours …
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https://splash247.com/black-sea-grain-trade-buckles-under-maritime-war/Rolls-Royce is expanding its partnership with Marand Precision Engineering into a new export venture, supplying naval gas turbine propulsion packages to the Type 26 Global Combat Ship program.Alongside this, Rolls-Royce has opened a new regional defense headquarters in Canberra…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/rollsroyce-establishes-regional-defense-542060
https://www.marinelink.com/news/rollsroyce-establishes-regional-defense-542060The Secretary-General of the IMO, Arsenio Dominguez, has issued a statement following the death of seafarers on the Tihamah which was hit by a projectile off the coast of Al Mokha, Yemen.“It is with sadness and regret to know that, once again…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/imo-issues-statement-seafarer-deaths-542061
https://www.marinelink.com/news/imo-issues-statement-seafarer-deaths-542061AURELIA has welcomed Silas Cooper, Honorary Consul of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, to its Amsterdam office for a working visit dedicated to the future of inter-island connectivity in The Bahamas.The meeting…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/aurelia-introduces-zeroemission-vessel-542062
https://www.marinelink.com/news/aurelia-introduces-zeroemission-vessel-542062Ports engineer Bryan Jones has been named HDR’s marine terminals leader.Based in Savannah, Georgia, Jones guides the firm’s growing marine terminals practice worldwide, working with port authorities and terminal operators to address evolving operational demands…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/bryan-jones-named-hdr-marine-terminals-542063
https://www.marinelink.com/news/bryan-jones-named-hdr-marine-terminals-542063The Canadian Coast Guard has remembered the 40th anniversary of the rescue of 155 Tamil refugees off the coast of Newfoundland.On August 11, 1986, Captain Gus Dalton and fellow fishermen found two lifeboats carrying 155 people fleeing violence and war in Sri Lanka near St. Shotts.
https://www.marinelink.com/news/canadian-coast-guard-remembers-refugee-542065
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