Thursday, July 11, 2013
News

Fred Olsen Energy Beats Performance Expectations, Shares Hit 5-Year High

July 11 (Bloomberg) — Fred Olsen Energy ASA, an offshore drilling company, climbed to a five-year high in Oslo as a better-than-estimated performance

July 11, 2013
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News

Navios Continues Tanker Fleet Expansion

Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: NNA) has announced plans to acquire two chemical tanker newbuilds as well as the exercised option to acquire two

July 11, 2013
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COSCO Guangzhou RaBoe
News

China to Introduce Policies to Support Shipping Industry

(Bloomberg) — China will remove “unreasonable fees” and introduce supportive policies for shipping companies in the second half of the year

July 11, 2013
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News

ABS Surpasses 200 Million Gross Ton Milestone

The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) reached a significant milestone today by registering over 200 million gross tons, corresponding to approximately 12,000

July 11, 2013
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News

Court Approves China Rongsheng Legal Action To Reclaim $103 Million

HONG KONG/SINGAPORE, July 11 (Reuters) – A court has granted a unit of China Rongsheng Heavy Industries approval to proceed with legal action to reclaim

July 11, 2013
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Finance

Maersk Climbs as Citi Sees Lower Profit Risks

July 11 (Bloomberg) — A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S, owner of the world’s largest container line, rose to its highest in three months in Copenhagen

July 11, 2013
Total Views: 42

News

Seadrill’s West Freedom Jack-Up Contracted Offshore Venezuela

Seadrill has announced a new contract for their LT-Super 116E jack-up rig West Freedom with Cardon IV Venezuela, an ENI SpA and REPSOL joint venture. The rig

July 11, 2013
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
MOL Comfort
Incidents

MOL Comfort Derelict has Sunk

The MOL Comfort saga has come to an end. According to an emailed report by the Indian Coast Guard, the burned out wreck parted her tow line and disappeared

July 10, 2013
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News

Dock Workers Pause Strike at Santos Port, to be Resumed Thursday

SAO PAULO, July 10 (Reuters) – Dock workers at Brazil’s key shipping port of Santos, the largest in South America, stopped a strike over port

July 10, 2013
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News

New Tankers Ordered from COSCO Zhoushan Shipyard

COSCO Zhoushan Shipyard Co. has announced today a contract to build four 111,000 dwt tankers for an undisclosed a European ship owner as well as a contract to

July 10, 2013
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Piracy

MV Albedo Lifeboats Spotted on Beach, No Signs of Missing Crew

Two lifeboats from the pirated MV Albedo have been found washed up on a Somali beach just north of where the ship sank, but there are still no signs of the 15

July 10, 2013
Total Views: 77

News

Volstad Shipping Orders $130 Million Subsea IMR Vessel

Volstad Shipping AS has signed a newbuild contract with Tersan Shipyard in Turkey for a new Subsea IMR and Construction Vessel. The vessel comes at a total

July 10, 2013
Total Views: 245

MOL Comfort
Incidents

MOL Comfort and Her Cargo is a Total Loss [IMAGE]

It’s official folks, if you had cargo on the MOL Comfort, it’s either sitting underneath 4,000 meters of seawater, or it’s been burned to a

July 10, 2013
Total Views: 145

News

Dock Workers Strike At Brazil’s Santos Port

SAO PAULO, July 10 (Reuters) – Dock workers at Brazil’s key shipping port of Santos, the largest in South America, started a 24-hour strike on

July 10, 2013
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News

A Primer on Maritime Security – Perception or Reality?

By Rene Toomse, CEO of Aburgus Maritime Security is not a rocket science.  To conduct the actual work one just needs a number of trustworthy men, some money

July 10, 2013
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Incidents

Anyone Missing an Anchor? Containership Discovers One Embedded in Her Hull

Images just sent to us via an anonymous gCaptain contributor showing damage to the RHL Fidelitas containership after she allegedly collided with a bulk

July 10, 2013
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Incidents

MOL Comfort: Indian Coast Guard Departs Scene, Tug Engineer Evacuated

UPDATE (10 JUL): MOL Comfort Fore Section has Sunk The Indian Coast Guard has departed the scene today of the burned-out derelict of the once elegant

July 10, 2013
Total Views: 97

News

Fred Olsen Climbs on Outlook for Dividends, New Rigs

July 10 (Bloomberg) — Fred Olsen Energy ASA rose to a six- week high in Oslo ahead of the offshore drilling company’s quarterly results tomorrow,

July 10, 2013
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Interesting

A Look Back: MOL Comfort Incident Photos

A collection of photos from the ongoing MOL Comfort incident.

July 10, 2013
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
News

Bollinger Hires Retired USCG Captain Richard Murphy

Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. announced the appointment of Richard K. Murphy as a senior manager working on Coast Guard and other governmental programs at their

July 9, 2013
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