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The latest maritime and offshore news.


Thursday, July 28, 2022
Wheat
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War Wheat: Traders Keep Russian Ships Sailing

By Áine Quinn (Bloomberg) An international trader, backed by Canadian pension funds and Glencore Plc, is still exporting large volumes of Russian grain as

July 28, 2022
Total Views: 1578

Oil Tanker Ship drone photo
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Used Product Tankers Are Hot Property

By Elizabeth Low (Bloomberg) Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has supercharged one segment of the shipping market, with soaring freight rates prompting companies

July 28, 2022
Total Views: 3546

Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Bosphorus Strait
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Turkey To Open Shipping Coordination Center For War Grain

Turkey will open a new joint shipping coordination center in Istanbul tomorrow to oversee Ukrainian grain exports. This comes only four days after a Russian

July 26, 2022
Total Views: 928

Saturday, July 23, 2022
Nancy Pelosi with American Flags
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Pelosi Trip Could Escalate Tensions In The Taiwan Strait 

China has threatened to take “strong measures” if Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan and US security experts

July 23, 2022
Total Views: 2314

two tankers conduct ship-to-ship transfer
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Dark Tanker Market Gets Competitive

Data from Vortexa, a platform in the energy industry, shows that Iran, Russia, and Venezuela are all vying to sell oil to Asia. According to the analysis,

July 23, 2022
Total Views: 4044

Tanker docks at marine terminal
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Shrinking Oil Tanker Fleet May Deepen The Energy Crisis

by John Konrad (gCaptain) A dwindling oil tanker fleet could deepen the global energy crisis over the next three years as energy companies try to increase

July 23, 2022
Total Views: 11187

Thursday, July 21, 2022
Cyprus Ship In Singapore
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Cyprus Shipping Pivots From Russia To Asia

By Jonathan Saul (Reuters) Cyprus has already overcome the loss of Russian maritime trade due to European sanctions and the Mediterranean shipping

July 21, 2022
Total Views: 2317

Monday, July 18, 2022
Russian FSRU LNG FPSO
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Russia’s Gazprom Declares Force Majeure

By Julia Payne (Reuters) Russia’s Gazprom has declared force majeure on gas supplies to Europe to at least one major customer, according to a letter from

July 18, 2022
Total Views: 7589

Friday, July 15, 2022
Riverboat Casino
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Abortion At Sea? Riverboat Casinos May Provide A Loophole To US Supreme Court Ruling

By Kelsey Butler (Bloomberg) To solve the problem of abortion access, Meg Autry is seeking inspiration from an unlikely source: riverboat casinos. 

July 15, 2022
Total Views: 3297

Monday, July 11, 2022
Oil Barges Short Sea Ship Fuel To Berlin
Shipping News

Oil Barges Short Sea Ship Fuel To Berlin

By Rachel Graham (Bloomberg) Eastern Germany is resorting to getting barge loads of fuel all the way from the North Sea oil port of Rotterdam as the nation

July 11, 2022
Total Views: 2692

LNG terminal in Barcelona, Spain
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The ESG Hypocrisy Of Shipping LNG To Europe

Is shipping LNG from Africa to Europe a proper Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) step towards sustainability or is it a new form of colonialism? By

July 11, 2022
Total Views: 3075

Sunday, July 10, 2022
Jeff Bezos Won’t Dismantle Historic Rotterdam Bridge
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Jeff Bezos Won’t Dismantle Historic Rotterdam Bridge

By Pablo Fernandez Cras (Bloomberg) A historic Rotterdam bridge that needed to be dismantled for billionaire Jeff Bezos’s new superyacht will be left intact

July 10, 2022
Total Views: 10133

Friday, July 8, 2022
Russian Superyachts Keep Clear Of The French Riviera
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Russian Superyachts Keep Clear Of The French Riviera

By K. Oanh Ha (Bloomberg) The French Riviera is looking slightly different this summer: the Russian superyachts that can usually be spotted gliding across its

July 8, 2022
Total Views: 3958

a ship passes below a bridge on the Rhine River
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Low River Levels May Deepen Europe’s Energy Crunch

By Todd Gillespie (Bloomberg) Water levels on Europe’s Rhine River are again dwindling — and this time it’s at the risk of the continent’s efforts

July 8, 2022
Total Views: 3292

Tuesday, July 5, 2022
Europe Needs More LNG & Coal Ships ASAP
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Europe Needs More LNG & Coal Ships ASAP

By Elena Mazneva (Bloomberg) European natural gas prices rose to the highest level in almost four months on persistent supply concerns amid the worst energy

July 5, 2022
Total Views: 4878

Monday, July 4, 2022
Ukraine Flag Grain
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Ukraine Flag Raised On Reclaimed Snake Island 

KYIV, July 4 (Reuters) – The Ukrainian flag has been raised again on Snake Island in the Black Sea, Ukraine’s military said on Monday,

July 4, 2022
Total Views: 1698

Sunday, July 3, 2022
Alexey Mordashov
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Italy Refuses To Unfreeze Russian Yachts

by Marco Carta (Reuters) An Italian court has thrown out requests to unfreeze billionaire Alexey Mordashov’s yacht which was seized by the police as part

July 3, 2022
Total Views: 3157

Thursday, June 30, 2022
France Asks CMA-CGA To Lower Rates
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France Asks CMA-CGA To Lower Rates

by Dominique Vidalon (Reuters) French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Wednesday put fresh pressure on the country’s biggest energy and shipping

June 30, 2022
Total Views: 1779

Wednesday, June 29, 2022
India Forced To Ship In Diesel As Shortages Arise
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India Forced To Ship In Diesel As Shortages Arise

By Elizabeth Low and Debjit Chakraborty (Bloomberg)– Global energy markets that have thrown up plenty of anomalies in 2022 as flows get rerouted and

June 29, 2022
Total Views: 2512

Tuesday, June 28, 2022
'Amadea' docked in San Diego
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Russian Superyacht Docks In San Diego Flying American Flag

By K. Oanh Ha (Bloomberg) After a stopover in Hawaii, the $325 million superyacht that’s tied to Russian billionaire Suleiman Kerimov and that was seized by

June 28, 2022
Total Views: 20062