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Brazil’s Transpetro has opened a public tender for the construction of 18 barges and 18 pusher tugs as part of its push into the country’s inland fuel transport market. The Petrobras subsidiary launched the bidding round this week, aiming to boost its logistics capacity and diversify operations along Brazil’s major river and coastal routes. Under …
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https://splash247.com/transpetro-launches-tender-for-36-inland-vessels-to-expand-fuel-logistics/The Philippines has demanded an explanation from Washington after a rising number of Filipino seafarers were reportedly denied entry to the United States and deported in recent months. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Philippine Embassy in Washington, DC, said it had sought clarification from multiple US government agencies — including the State Department …
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https://splash247.com/rising-us-deportations-of-filipino-crew-spark-diplomatic-intervention/Japan’s shipbuilders are mounting their most ambitious modernisation drive in decades, seeking a ¥350bn ($2.3bn) government-backed injection to double national shipbuilding output within 10 years. The plan, unveiled on Wednesday by the Shipbuilders’ Association of Japan (SAJ) ahead of a meeting with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), brings together 17 domestic companies including industry …
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https://splash247.com/japans-shipbuilders-seek-2-3bn-injection-to-double-output/Globalisation isn’t dead, but it’s changing course, writes Neil Shearing, group chief economist at Capital Economics, and author of this year’s bestseller The Fractured Age. Commentators have been quick to declare globalisation dead. But, as is so often the case in economics, the reality is more complicated than the headlines suggest. This will have important …
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https://splash247.com/how-geopolitics-is-redrawing-the-worlds-shipping-routes/Classification society DNV has awarded HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (HD KSOE) an Approval in Principle (AiP) for a new 15,000 TEU container vessel design powered by Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology.The design demonstrates the application of SMR technology in a 15…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/hd-ksoe-gets-dnvs-blessing-nuclearpowered-531447Norwegian offshore supply vessel owner DOF Group has secured contract extensions for two of its subsea vessels, both operating in Guyana.The contract extensions are for Skandi Nomad and Skandi Constructor, which will remain on duty for one more year each.Following the extensions…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/dof-books-contract-extensions-two-subsea-531448Dutch heavy-lift technology specialist Huisman has launched Rope Vision, an automated visual inspection tool aimed at improving the reliability, safety and lifespan of crane wire ropes used in heavy lifting operations.Rope Vision combines high…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/huisman-launches-rope-vision-safer-531450ECOnnect Energy has signed two pre-Front End Engineering and Design (pre-FEED) contracts for its IQuay Regas Terminal, a modular floating regasification system designed to offer faster, more flexible alternatives to conventional onshore and…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/dual-prefeed-wins-propel-econnects-lng-531454The U.S. military killed five alleged drug smugglers in strikes against two vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday, in an expansion of the Trump administration's use of the armed forces in its counter-narcotics campaign.On Wednesday afternoon…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/us-military-kills-five-eastern-pacific-531457The Pakistan navy said on Wednesday it seized narcotics worth about $972 million in the North Arabian Sea in an operation with a Saudi-led task force.The navy's YARMOOK ship, operating under the Saudi-led Combined Task Force of the Combined Maritime Forces, carried out the operation, the navy said i
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