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The latest maritime and offshore news.


Tuesday, October 15, 2019
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Shipping News

Business of Shipping: Incident Prompts U.S. Coast Guard to Refocus on Cyber Security

By Ira Breskin – NEW YORK –The local Coast Guard unit now is implementing critical lessons learned from a recently completed turbocharged cybersecurity

October 15, 2019
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Shipbuilding

Carlyle Completes Vigor, MHI Holdings Acquisition

Global investment firm The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) and private equity firm Stellex Capital Management today announced they have closed on their acquisition

October 15, 2019
Total Views: 272

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Shipping News

Dilemma for Oil Refiners as Surging Ship Costs Kill Margins

By Serene Cheong and Sharon Cho (Bloomberg) –Oil refiners hoping for some fourth-quarter gravy are facing disappointment as surging freight rates inflate

October 15, 2019
Total Views: 30

Monday, October 14, 2019
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Shipping News

Geopolitical Risks Send Supertanker Rates to Record Levels

By Olivia Konotey-Ahulu and Firat Kayakiran (Bloomberg) –Nothing right now is stopping a surge in oil tanker rates that’s given owners of the vessels

October 14, 2019
Total Views: 75

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Shipping News

ITF Calls on France to Continue Search for Bourbon Rhode Crew

The International Transport Workers’ Federation has joined Ukrainian and Croatian maritime unions in demanding that the search for seven missing Bourbon

October 14, 2019
Total Views: 74

Wärtsilä, Norsepower Team Up on Rotor Sails
Shipping News

Wärtsilä, Norsepower Team Up on Rotor Sails

Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has teamed up with Finnish rotor sail propulsion specialist Norsepower to pursue energy-saving rotor sail projects in the

October 14, 2019
Total Views: 195

Cargo Ship Runs Aground in Corsica
Shipping News

Cargo Ship Runs Aground in Corsica

Authorities in France are responded to the grounding of a cargo ship on the island of Corsica early Sunday morning. The 90-meter M/V Rhodanus with seven people

October 14, 2019
Total Views: 116

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Shipping News

China Wants More Talks Before Signing Trade Deal With Trump

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — China wants to hold more talks this month to hammer out the details of the “phase one” trade deal touted by Donald

October 14, 2019
Total Views: 14

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Shipping News

Overturned Golden Ray to Be Cut Up in Place in St. Simons Sound

Officials overseeing the salvage of the overturned Golden Ray in Brunswick, Georgia have opted to dismantle the vessel in place in lieu of refloating it due to

October 14, 2019
Total Views: 109

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Shipping News

Greenpeace Climbs Decommissioned North Sea Platform

By Ron Bousso LONDON, Oct 14 (Reuters) – Greenpeace activists boarded two Royal Dutch Shell oil platforms in the British North Sea on Monday in protest

October 14, 2019
Total Views: 41

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Shipping News

Oil Tanker Rates Roar to New Records as Geopolitical Risks Swirl

By Olivia Konotey-Ahulu and Firat Kayakiran (Bloomberg) –Nothing right now is stopping a surge in oil tanker rates that’s given owners of the vessels

October 14, 2019
Total Views: 73

Sunday, October 13, 2019
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Finance

DeSiloing The Maritime Industry – Notes From The Global Bluetech Summit

Last week SeaAhead’s Global Bluetech Summit in New York City brought together high-level stakeholders from around the world to discuss and support

October 13, 2019
Total Views: 90

Stock photo shows an oil tanker at a terminal
Shipping News

Supertankers See Another Windfall with Attack on Iranian Ship

By Brian Wingfield and Firat Kayakiran (Bloomberg) –Supertankers hauling oil on some of the world’s longest trade trade routes had already been

October 13, 2019
Total Views: 66

Targeted Iranian Tanker Plugged as it Heads for Gulf, Iran Says
Shipping News

Targeted Iranian Tanker Plugged as it Heads for Gulf, Iran Says

DUBAI, Oct 12 (Reuters) – Leakage of cargo from an Iranian-owned oil tanker apparently hit by missiles in Red Sea waters off Saudi Arabia has been

October 13, 2019
Total Views: 55

Friday, October 11, 2019
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Shipping News

U.S., China Said to Reach Partial Deal, Could Set Up Trade Truce

By Jenny Leonard (Bloomberg) — The U.S. and China reached a partial agreement Friday that would broker a truce in the trade war and lay the groundwork

October 11, 2019
Total Views: 29

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Shipping News

U.S. Sanctions Hit Global Oil Fleet as Traders Shun Nearly 300 Tankers

By Marianna Parraga and Roslan Khasawneh MEXICO CITY/SINGAPORE, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Nearly 300 oil tankers globally have been placed off limits as

October 11, 2019
Total Views: 40

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Shipping News

Asia Oil Buyers Grapple with Rising Costs as Tanker Rates Surge

By Nidhi Verma and Chen Aizhu NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Asian oil refiners are grappling with a jump in global freight rates that shows no

October 11, 2019
Total Views: 72

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Shipping News

LNG Shipping Rates Surging as Vessels Drop Out of Service

By Anna Shiryaevskaya and Stephen Stapczynski (Bloomberg) –The cost of chartering a liquefied natural gas vessel on the short-term market has jumped the

October 11, 2019
Total Views: 88

The Iranian-owned Sabiti oil tanker is seen sailing in the Red Sea
Shipping News

Iranian Tanker Reportedly Hit by Missiles Off Saudi Coast, Iran Media Reports

By Parisa Hafezi and Sylvia Westall DUBAI, Oct 11 (Reuters) – An Iranian-owned oil tanker was struck, probably by missiles, in the Red Sea off Saudi

October 11, 2019
Total Views: 35

Thursday, October 10, 2019
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Shipping News

Phillips 66 Charters Supertanker for Record $14 Million as Rates Surge

NEW YORK, Oct 10 (Reuters) – Phillips 66 tentatively chartered a supertanker to ship U.S. crude from the U.S. Gulf Coast to South Korea for a record $14

October 10, 2019
Total Views: 111