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Three crew were kidnapped yesterday when the , a 2010-supramax belonging to Eagle Bulk, came under attack just after midnight from pirates at the Owendo Anchorage in Gabon. The ship remains at anchorage with the remaining 17 crew reported unharmed. The waters around Gabon and the Gulf of Guinea have become a hotspot for piracy …
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https://splash247.com/three-crew-kidnapped-from-eagle-bulk-ship-off-gabon/Monaco-headquartered Scorpio Tankers is lining up a new financing deal of up to $1bn that would enable it to repay and re-finance more expensive lease financing, along with financing certain of its unencumbered vessels. The Emanuele Lauro-led owner and operator of 113 product tankers has revealed talks with a group of financial institutions for a …
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https://splash247.com/scorpio-tankers-closing-in-on-up-to-1bn-financing/Three crew are presumed dead from Monday’s explosion in Malaysian waters on the 1997-built , an aframax tanker, with a history of transporting Iranian crude. Dramatic images and videos of the incident have emerged – with almost the entire deck of the ship being blown into the sky. Malaysian authorities were able to extinguish the …
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https://splash247.com/deck-blasted-into-air-in-aframax-explosion/Goodbye lipstick red, hello baby blue. Maersk’s rebrand of a venerable name in German shipping is seeing an old livery painted over. Maersk announced at the end of January it was moving towards a single, unified brand that will see shipping lines including 152-year-old Hamburg Süd, acquired in 2017, and SeaLand as well as newer …
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https://splash247.com/goodbye-lipstick-red-hello-baby-blue-hamburg-sud-brand-fades-from-view/One of China’s latest entrants into liner shipping has a name to reflect its status. Newnew Shipping is one of a host of new local container brands servicing the China – Russia tradelane. Newnew is a subsidiary of Torgmoll, a logistics group, with Alphaliner reporting it has recently bought the 3,700 teu, 2007-built Northern Debonair …
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https://splash247.com/new-by-name-chinas-latest-liner-entrant-makes-waves/Danish Ship Finance has published its latest keenly awaited biannual shipping markets report, backing up coverage led by Splash Extra that suggests the tanker trades are on course for their best earnings this century. The influential report, which tends to be read by thousands within the industry, covers all the main sectors, but reserves its …
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https://splash247.com/tanker-markets-at-decades-high-danish-ship-finance/DEME Offshore has secured three contracts with a combined value of more than €300m ($331m) for the Dieppe Le Tréport offshore wind farm in France. This is the third large-scale offshore wind farm project for the Belgian marine contractor in France, following Saint-Nazaire and the recent contract award for the Iles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier wind …
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https://splash247.com/deme-scores-french-wind-hat-trick/Sources tell Splash that Norwegian asset player Atlantica Shipping, led by Johan Werner, has sealed its first bulker purchase this year, tabling just under $16m for 14-year-old, Mitsui Tamano-built supramax , a ship which was listed owned by Bancorp in the US according to MarineTraffic. The new addition brings Atlantica Shipping’s supramax arm up to …
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https://splash247.com/atlantica-snaps-up-supramax/The Dubai Maritime Authority (DMA), which oversees all aspects of the maritime sector in Dubai, has issued a new directive on the transparency of local sea container charges. The directive, which took effect this month, requires all service providers to declare their local sea container charges to the DMA via the Dubai Trade Single Window …
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https://splash247.com/dubai-issues-new-directive-on-transparency-of-local-sea-container-charges/Iranian forces have seized an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, the second such incident in less than a week. The US Navy said the Panama-flagged VLCC was seized by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) around 6.20 hrs local time while transiting from the Arabian Gulf toward the port of Fujairah in …
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