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Shipowners are asking for easy-to-use solutions, offering a one-stop shop, according to Joachim Gerlach, senior sales manager at Weathernews, one of the world’s largest private weather information companies. “Customers are facing more and more systems in their everyday operations, and being able to integrate as much as possible into one unique interface is key,” Gerlach …
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https://splash247.com/geneva-dry-dialogues-weathernews/Hong Kong-listed Secon Shipping is growing its dry bulk fleet with an ultramax newbuilding at Tsuneishi Zhoushan Shipbuilding. The Qingdao-based owner and operator is paying $38.34m to see the Tsuneishi-controlled Chinese yard, in which Yangzijiang Shipbuilding also holds a 34% stake, deliver the 63,300 dwt vessel in April 2027. Seacon said the move is in …
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https://splash247.com/seacon-orders-ultramax-bulker-at-tsuneishi-zhoushan/Global port operator International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) has bought a 47% interest in a former shipyard, Estaleiro Inhaúma, in Rio de Janeiro, which will be used to expand its port facilities in the city. “In the immediate future, the said property will be used by ICTSI Rio Brazil as additional capacity for its …
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https://splash247.com/ictsi-to-expand-rio-de-janeiro-port-facilities/India’s largest private ports and logistics company, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), has acquired the North Queensland Export Terminal (NQXT) in Australia in a non-cash deal worth about $2.54bn. The transaction involves the purchase of Abbot Point Port Holdings (APPH), a Singapore-based entity currently owned by Carmichael Rail and Port Singapore holdings, which …
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https://splash247.com/adani-ports-strikes-2-5bn-deal-for-australian-coal-terminal/Gianluigi Aponte’s Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) has returned to Hengli Heavy Industry for a new series of LNG dual-fuel megamax containerships. Shipbuilding sources in China report the Swiss-based liner giant has signed up for six 22,000 teu newbuilds at the yard formerly known as STX Dalian. Soren Toft-led MSC and Hengli Heavy signed a strategic …
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https://splash247.com/msc-in-for-more-hengli-megamaxes/Andrew Craig-Bennett on another virulent form of sea blindness. Timor arcium griseorum. I hope I have got the Latin for “Fear of grey boxes” correct, because it is the widespread fear – almost a medical condition – of container shipping that I want to write about. There was a time when fear of the grey …
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https://splash247.com/fear-of-grey-boxes/The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) in the US has classified the Chinese-Polish Joint Stock Shipping Company (Chipolbrok) as a controlled carrier of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and is adding it to the commission’s controlled carrier list. The company, with 31 MPPs in its fleet, is jointly owned by the governments of the PRC …
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https://splash247.com/fmc-classifies-chipolbrok-as-a-controlled-carrier/The Korean-controlled Philly Shipyard is gearing up to build the first LNG carriers in America since the 1970s. Following last week’s announcement by the US Trade Representative (USTR) on port fees designed to boost American shipbuilding, Hanhwa Ocean, which bought Philly Shipyard last year, has said it will embark on a project to build gas …
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https://splash247.com/philly-shipyard-steps-forward-to-meet-us-lng-carrier-requirements/Students departed this morning to board the Carnival Breeze in Galveston for a five-day learning experience as part of Austin High School’s Maritime Studies Program.From April 17-21, while onboard and underway, senior students will have six…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/chevron-shipping-austin-high-school-team-524859The total funded program of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport reached $2 billion in 2024, according to the recently released economic impact report.Of its total operating budget, $776 million was spent by Division Newport in civilian payroll and labor…
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