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Malaysian tanker player AET has struck a deal to bring in a pair of LNG dual-fuel aframax newbuilds on long-term charter. Singapore-based logistics and tonnage provider Singfar Group has fixed its 115,000 dwt duo recently booked for construction at New Times Shipbuilding in China. The vessels will be delivered to AET in 2027. No further …
https://splash247.com/aet-locks-in-singfar-aframax-newbuilds/
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Chinese bulker operator Jinhui Shipping and Transportation has chartered in a vessel under a long-term deal for the second time in less than a week. The Oslo- and Hong Kong-listed company has contracted a 2017-built newcastlemax True Neptune for at least 33 months from the Singapore-based Olam Maritime Freight. The Chinese firm does have an …
https://splash247.com/jinhui-bulks-up-with-newcastlemax-charter/
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Knutsen NYK Carbon Carriers (KNCC) has revealed a change in its top management with the promotion of chief technical officer Oliver Hagen-Smith. Hagen-Smith, who joined Knutsen in 2009, will take over as chief executive from Anders Lepsøe in May. Lepsøe will become the company’s chairman as well as head of NYK Group Europe in Norway. …
https://splash247.com/changes-at-the-top-at-knutsen-nyk-carbon-carriers/
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Italian owner d’Amico International Shipping has signed a shipbuilding contract with Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding for the purchase of two new LR1 product tankers. The order was placed by the Italian firm’s Irish subsidiary, d’Amico Tankers. The price for each 75,000 dwt vessel will be $55.4m. According to the company, the two newbuilds are expected …
https://splash247.com/damico-orders-two-lr1-tankers-in-china/
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UK-based offshore vessel designer Chartwell Marine has started the construction of its new Brevity Class crew transfer vessel (CTV) at the Diverse Marine shipyard, becoming the latest in its growing pipeline of new vessel builds to supply the…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/chartwell-marine-grows-ctv-build-pipeline-513021
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French engineering company GTT has received an order from an Asian shipyard for the tank design of eight new Liquefied Natural Gas Carriers (LNGCs).The order, booked in the second quarter of 2024, is on behalf of a Middle Eastern ship-owner.GTT will design the tanks of these eight vessels…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/gtt-books-tank-design-order-eight-new-lng-513023
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“Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the global container market grew only 1.5% from 171.0 million TEU in 2019 to 173.5 million TEU in 2023. Without the pandemic, that figure would have been 24.6 million higher, landing at 198.1 million in 2023,” says Niels Rasmussen…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/ill-effects-covid-wiped-m-teu-off-513024
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The Maritime Risk Symposium is an annual three-day conference in which government and maritime industry leaders, port representatives, researchers, and solution providers convene to examine current and emerging threats to maritime security.
https://www.marinelink.com/news/mrs-panel-identifying-risk-measuring-513026
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Saudi Arabia’s Ras Al-Khair Special Economic Zone (SEZ) said it is seeking local and foreign investors to help boost the Kingdom’s maritime infrastructure.With an initial area of 20 square kilometers, Ras Al-Khair SEZ, operated by the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/ras-alkhair-sez-seeking-maritime-513030
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The 25 crew members of the MSC Aries, which was seized by Iran on April 13, are safe, shipping firm MSC said on Wednesday, adding that discussions with Iranian authorities are in progress to secure their earliest release."We are also working with the Iranian authorities to have the cargo discharged…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/crew-ship-seized-iran-safe-operator-msc-513031
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