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Tehran-based Kamal & Adel has moved into the containership sector with an order for a single 1,700 teu-class newbuild in China. The Iranian outfit has contracted Chizhou Tianyu Shipbuilding for the vessel, priced at around $31.5m and due for delivery in 2028. Detailed specifications have not been disclosed. Consultancy Alphaliner notes that a ship of …
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https://splash247.com/iranian-owner-makes-boxship-move-with-china-order/Samudera Shipping Line and Imoto Corporation’s Japanese joint venture has moved into newbuildings, ordering a 696 teu feeder in China. Blue Ocean Shipping has signed the contract with Zhejiang Xinle Shipbuilding for delivery in the first half of 2028. The Kobe-based venture was incorporated earlier this year, with Samudera Japan holding 51% and Imoto the …
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https://splash247.com/samudera-imoto-venture-orders-first-newbuild-for-japan-push/Jacques Goudchaux has watched maritime technology evolve from before the dotcom bubble to today’s AI frenzy. The AXSMarine chief tells Maritime CEO the next breakthrough will not come from technology alone, but from combining artificial intelligence with trusted shipping data. Goudchaux has been around maritime technology long enough to have witnessed several supposedly transformative technologies …
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https://splash247.com/axsmarine-ai-blockchain-and-the-technologies-shipping-actually-needs/Commercial shipping came under fire at both ends of the Middle East’s most disrupted maritime corridor on Tuesday, with US forces disabling a containership in the Gulf of Oman while a separate attack in the Bab el-Mandeb left six people dead. US Central Command confirmed that a Navy MH-60 helicopter fired two Hellfire missiles at …
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https://splash247.com/us-disables-boxship-while-red-sea-attack-kills-six/China's test of a nuclear-capable missile last month has exposed the limits of Pacific leaders' ambition to make the region an "Ocean of Peace", free from the crossfire of major-power rivalry.The July launch, China's first known ballistic-missile test into the Pacific since September 2024…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/china-missile-test-deepens-pacific-divide-542008
https://www.marinelink.com/news/china-missile-test-deepens-pacific-divide-542008Russia has begun shipping crude oil via its Arctic sea route this year at a faster pace than a year ago, with seven cargoes carrying some 6 million barrels of crude already heading to Asia, according to three trade sources and LSEG shipping data.The Northern Sea Route…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/russia-ramps-oil-exports-via-arctic-route-542009
https://www.marinelink.com/news/russia-ramps-oil-exports-via-arctic-route-542009Gasoline at $38 a gallon sold from cramped apartments. Diesel hawked on Instagram by a celebrity model to a reggaeton soundtrack. Six decades after Fidel Castro’s revolution, all of a sudden, capitalist cracks are appearing in Cuba’s communist…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/us-fuel-exports-cuba-spur-chaotic-black-542010HII has announced that the U.S. Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has officially recognized the successful completion of the company’s production-ready, inexpensive, maritime expeditionary (PRIME) prototype project.The prototype features the Watcher small unmanned surface vessel (sUSV)…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/romulus-usv-passes-critical-military-test-542012
https://www.marinelink.com/news/romulus-usv-passes-critical-military-test-542012The Grimaldi Group has taken delivery of Grande Pacifico, the 13th ammonia ready car carrier in the Grimaldi Group fleet and the first of five sister PCTCs vessels ordered from China Merchants Heavy Industries Jiangsu and classed by RINA.An evolution of the design that gave rise to the first five 9…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/grimaldi-takes-delivery-first-newseries-542013
https://www.marinelink.com/news/grimaldi-takes-delivery-first-newseries-542013Air quality screenings recorded at the port of Ilulissat in Greenland show high air pollution levels with an average around 60-70 times higher than safe low particle levels recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) of 1,000 particles/cm3.The measurements…
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