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Schoeller Holdings has returned to China’s Chengxi Shipyard for another four MR product tankers, doubling its 50,000 dwt series at the CSSC yard just months after completing deliveries of the first batch. Newbuilding sources put the latest quartet at $45m per vessel, giving the deal a combined value of around $180m. The ships are due …
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https://splash247.com/schoeller-doubles-down-at-chengxi-with-180m-mr-quartet/Tung Chee-hwa, the shipping tycoon who went on to become Hong Kong’s first chief executive following the handover to China, has died aged 89. Tung died in Hong Kong on Tuesday evening surrounded by family, according to his office. Long before politics, Tung was one of the most important figures in Hong Kong shipping. The …
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https://splash247.com/former-oocl-boss-and-hong-kong-leader-tung-chee-hwa-dies-at-89/The next phase of digitalisation, according to Ben Palmer, president of Viasat Commercial, will be defined by measurable returns and technology that solves problems rather than creating new ones. Ben Palmer is unusually candid about what Inmarsat got wrong as maritime digitalisation accelerated over the past five years. The mistake, says the president of Viasat …
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https://splash247.com/viasat-commercial-how-the-digitally-mature-ship-of-2030-will-operate/For a decade the 24,000 teu megamax has looked like the natural ceiling for containership size. Analysts at Alphaliner now believe the industry could be ready to break through it. The consultancy has revived a concept it first floated in 2021 for a new ‘gigamax’ class, arguing that advances in ship design, rising fuel costs …
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https://splash247.com/enter-the-gigamax-alphaliner-makes-the-case-for-27500-teu-ships/The maritime war around the Strait of Hormuz has escalated dramatically over the past 24 hours, with the US attacking five Iran-linked tankers and Tehran claiming to have subsequently targeted two US vessels, eight oil tankers and another 10 ships attempting to pass through the strait. US Central Command said it struck the five tankers …
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https://splash247.com/hormuz-tanker-war-spirals/The Middle East war intensified on Tuesday with Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen launching strikes on several Saudi cities, further embroiling a U.S. ally in the conflict, while U.S. forces hit multiple Iranian oil tankers and Iran targeted a U.S.
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/iran-strikes-back-us-military-destroys-542817Lumitec, a designer and manufacturer of environment LED lighting solutions, has announced a new enhancement to its Poco Digital Lighting Control system, the Channel Expander Feature.This latest addition expands system flexibility and scalability…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/lumitec-enhances-poco-digital-lighting-542807Yemen's Tehran-backed Houthis attacked four cities in the south of U.S. ally Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, wounding more than 70 people and setting oil installations ablaze in what appeared to be a major expansion of the six-month-old Middle East war.The Houthis…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/injured-houthis-attack-four-saudi-cities-542808Greece finalised a deal on Tuesday for the purchase of two Bergamini class frigates from Italy, its defence ministry said, as the NATO country looks to modernise its armed forces.Greece agreed last year a plan to buy the two used Bergamini class frigates from Italy and kept an option to buy two more
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/greece-buy-two-frigates-italy-542809Oil prices rose to a six-week high on Tuesday after Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen attacked Saudi energy facilities, setting oil installations ablaze and threatening a major expansion of the six-month-old Middle East war.Brent crude futures rose 70 cents, or 0.7%, to $97.70 a barrel at 10:56 a.m.
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