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Thursday, April 28, 2016
Samsung Heavy Industries Shipbuilding (Geoje, South Korea)
Offshore

Samsung Heavy Industries Loses $4.6 Billion Shell Order

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Samsung Heavy Industries Co., the world’s third-largest shipbuilder, said an order to build three floating liquefied

April 28, 2016
Total Views: 141

Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Norwegian Rainmaker Predicts Oil Crash is Near Bottom
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Norwegian Rainmaker Predicts Oil Crash is Near Bottom

By Jonas Cho Walsgard (Bloomberg) — Shipping is about to lead a recovery in global offshore markets that have been battered by plunging oil prices,

April 27, 2016
Total Views: 65

Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Statoil Enters German Offshore Wind Market Through $1.4 Billion Project with EON
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Statoil Enters German Offshore Wind Market Through $1.4 Billion Project with EON

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Statoil ASA, Norway’s biggest oil company, bought a 50 percent stake in EON SE’s Arkona offshore wind farm, entering

April 26, 2016
Total Views: 39

DSME Shipyard South Korea
News

South Korea Vows More Steps in Revamp of Ailing Shipbuilders

By Heejin Kim and Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — South Korea said it will take more active steps to help the nation’s shipping and shipbuilding industries

April 26, 2016
Total Views: 37

Monday, April 25, 2016
Canadian Government Waivers on Tanker Ban Giving Northern Gateway Pipeline Project New Life
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Canadian Government Waivers on Tanker Ban Giving Northern Gateway Pipeline Project New Life

By Josh Wingrove and Jeremy van Loon (Bloomberg) — Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway pipeline may get a new lease on life as the Canadian government

April 25, 2016
Total Views: 29

Antarctica Gets Hot for Another Reason: Cruise Tourism
Shipping News

Antarctica Gets Hot for Another Reason: Cruise Tourism

By Justin Bachman (Bloomberg) — In January 1966, the first ship carrying “citizen-explorers” arrived in Antarctica. At the time, only a handful of

April 25, 2016
Total Views: 152

Friday, April 22, 2016
Angola Accuses Congo of Wrecking Joint-Offshore Oil Development Agreement
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Angola Accuses Congo of Wrecking Joint-Offshore Oil Development Agreement

By Tom Wilson and Candido Mendes (Bloomberg) — Angola’s oil minister accused neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo’s government of wrecking an

April 22, 2016
Total Views: 107

hanjin shipping boston containership
News

Hanjin Shipping Seeks Restructuring as Cash Dwindles

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Hanjin Shipping Co., South Korea’s biggest container carrier that’s part of the Hanjin Group, said it will work with

April 22, 2016
Total Views: 57

Thursday, April 21, 2016
hapag-lloyd containership
News

Hapag-Lloyd and UASC in Merger Talks as Industry Grapples with Falling Freight Rates

By Nicholas Brautlecht (Bloomberg) — Hapag-Lloyd AG is in talks with United Arab Shipping Co. on a possible combination of their container businesses,

April 21, 2016
Total Views: 88

Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Sete Brasil Shareholders Approve Plan to File for Bankruptcy
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Sete Brasil Shareholders Approve Plan to File for Bankruptcy

By Francisco Marcelino (Bloomberg) — Shareholders of oil-rig venture Sete Brasil Participacoes SA agreed to a plan to file for bankruptcy protection

April 20, 2016
Total Views: 87

Cheniere’s LNG Set to Reach Europe as U.S. Shale Gas Goes Global
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Cheniere’s LNG Set to Reach Europe as U.S. Shale Gas Goes Global

By Anna Shiryaevskaya, Harry R. Weber and Joao Lima (Bloomberg) — Within a decade of revolutionizing domestic natural gas markets, U.S. shale will for

April 20, 2016
Total Views: 61

Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Highest Carbon Tax in Norway Prods Statoil to Try ‘Batwind’
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Highest Carbon Tax in Norway Prods Statoil to Try ‘Batwind’

By Jessica Shankleman (Bloomberg) — The highest carbon tax in an oil producing nation has persuaded Norway’s state-owned driller to experiment with

April 19, 2016
Total Views: 65

Monday, April 18, 2016
Shenzhen port
News

More Mega Ships Predicted to Call at Key Shenzhen Hub

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Billionaire Li Ka-Shing’s Hutchison Port Holdings Trust predicts more mega ships will call at its Shenzhen port to move

April 18, 2016
Total Views: 26

Big Oil’s `Rock Star’ in Congress Runs Rig Tours to Win Votes
Offshore

Big Oil’s `Rock Star’ in Congress Runs Rig Tours to Win Votes

By Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) — Congressman Steve Scalise leaned over the railing of the Chevron Corp. oil platform floating in inky blue waters 250

April 18, 2016
Total Views: 31

keppel shipyard
News

Keppel Profit Drops as Oil Slump Delays Offshore Projects

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Keppel Corp., the world’s largest builder of oil rigs, reported a 41 percent decline in first-quarter profit as weak oil

April 18, 2016
Total Views: 17

Friday, April 15, 2016
One Chinese Shipyard Is So Unprofitable It’s Literally Becoming a Parking Lot
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One Chinese Shipyard Is So Unprofitable It’s Literally Becoming a Parking Lot

By Ma Jie (Bloomberg) — Chinese shipbuilders are under so much financial strain that one of them is literally being turned into a parking lot. China

April 15, 2016
Total Views: 75

Thursday, April 14, 2016
U.S. Issues Tough New Rules for Offshore Drilling
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U.S. Issues Tough New Rules for Offshore Drilling

By Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) — The Obama administration is imposing tough new regulations for offshore drilling nearly six years after the Deepwater

April 14, 2016
Total Views: 133

Exxon Says New Rules Will Sink Deepwater Oil Drilling
Offshore

Exxon Says New Rules Will Sink Deepwater Oil Drilling

By Joe Carroll (Bloomberg) — The world’s biggest oil explorers are fighting a U.S. plan to toughen offshore drilling rules that Exxon Mobil Corp. said

April 14, 2016
Total Views: 98

Japan’s K-Line Said to Cut Fleet of Smaller Bulk Carriers in Half
News

Japan’s K-Line Said to Cut Fleet of Smaller Bulk Carriers in Half

By Chris Cooper and Kiyotaka Matsuda (Bloomberg) — Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd., Japan’s third-largest shipping company, plans to halve the fleet of its

April 14, 2016
Total Views: 129

U.S. Set to Issue Tighter Offshore Drilling Rules Fought by Industry
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U.S. Set to Issue Tighter Offshore Drilling Rules Fought by Industry

By Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) — The Obama administration will issue sweeping new regulations on offshore drilling Thursday, imposing potentially

April 14, 2016
Total Views: 34