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Thursday, December 12, 2013
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Finance

HSH Nordbank New Lending Surges 30% as Moody’s Warns on Defaults

HSH Nordbank AG, the world’s largest shipping lender, said new loans to businesses surged about 30 percent this year, after Moody’s Investors

December 12, 2013
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Tsakos Energy Navigation Partners With Statoil to Build Up to Nine Aframaxes

Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited (NYSE:TNP) has announced today strategic partnership with Statoil involving the construction and chartering of five to nine

December 12, 2013
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News

ExxonMobil: North American Shale to Exceed Most OPEC Nations’ Output in 2015

Oil production from North American shale fields will outpace every member of OPEC except Saudi Arabia within two years, according to ExxonMobil Corp., the

December 12, 2013
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News

Bad Weather and Early Fixtures Buoy Capesize Rates

Rates for capesize bulk carriers on key Asian routes are set to remain firm going into next week due to bad weather in Australia and buoyant fixture activity

December 12, 2013
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Singapore’s Keppel Says it Plans to Build Its First Drillship

Singapore's Keppel Corporation Ltd, the world's top offshore drilling rig maker, said it plans to build its first drillship despite not having a buyer lined

December 12, 2013
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Hijacked MV Free Goddess to Return to Service
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Hijacked MV Free Goddess to Return to Service

Athens-based drybulk shipper FreeSeas announced Wednesday that the formerly hijacked MV Free Goddess will be returning to service after securing $1.1 million

December 11, 2013
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GEA Westfalia Separator BallastMaster ultraV Awarded USCG AMS certificate
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GEA Westfalia Separator BallastMaster ultraV Awarded USCG AMS certificate

Via GEA Westfalia PRESS RELEASE – The BallastMaster ultraV developed by GEA Westfalia Separator for ballast water treatment has been awarded the

December 11, 2013
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Seine-Nord Canal Project Could Make The Cut, Audit Shows
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Seine-Nord Canal Project Could Make The Cut, Audit Shows

The cost of a stalled waterway project to link France's Seine river to Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands could be cut by around 40 percent to 4.5 billion

December 11, 2013
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Scorpio Bulkers Ups IPO
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Scorpio Bulkers Ups IPO

In an amended filing with the SEC, Scorpio revealed that it is now offering 26,100,000 shares of common stock in its NYSE debut, up from the original

December 11, 2013
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Eighth Damen-Designed Fast Response Cutter Delivered to U.S. Coast Guard

Bollinger Shipyards delivered the 154 foot patrol craft CHARLES SEXTON yesterday to the 7th Coast Guard District located in Key West, FL.  She is the

December 11, 2013
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Incidents

Cargo Ship Bashes Against Seawall, Sinks [VIDEO]

The following video shows the cargo ship NOUR M getting beat to crap against a seawall at the port of Rhodes, an island in the eastern Aegean Sea. The

December 11, 2013
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News

The Technology Required to Contain Subsea Well Blowouts Continues to Evolve

In November 2010, following the tragedy of the Macondo disaster, the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) issued a notice to all lessees

December 11, 2013
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Bosphorus Strait Closed Due to Snow Storm
Marine Weather

Bosphorus Strait Closed Due to Snow Storm

ISTANBUL, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Turkey shut its Bosphorus Strait, a key shipping channel for Russian cargo, to tanker traffic on Wednesday after a snowstorm

December 11, 2013
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ClassNK Tanker Expert Appointed Chairman of Tanker Structure Co-operative Forum

Tokyo – The Tanker Structure Co-operative Forum (TSCF) has elected Hayato Suga as its next Chairman at a recent Steering Committee Meeting. Hayato Suga

December 11, 2013
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PRONAUTAS Installs Transas Premium Dual ECDIS on Jan De Nul Group vessels

PRONAUTAS and Jan De Nul Group have announced a new partnership to roll out an ECDIS implementation program onboard Jan De Nul vessels. PRONAUTAS will deliver

December 11, 2013
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U.S. Fuel Sales to Asia Poised for Record in Shale Boom

The biggest U.S. oil boom in almost a quarter century is prompting refiners in the Gulf of Mexico to book the most tankers since at least 2011 to ship products

December 11, 2013
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Canada’s BC Ferries Shortlists Five Shipyards to Build LNG-Powered Ferries
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Canada’s BC Ferries Shortlists Five Shipyards to Build LNG-Powered Ferries

Canada's BC Ferries is moving forward with plans to build three car and passenger ferries to run on LNG fuel as the company looks to decrease fuel costs and

December 10, 2013
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Oil Majors Team Up to Map New Area of Norwegian Arctic
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Oil Majors Team Up to Map New Area of Norwegian Arctic

A group comprised of 17 oil and gas companies has established a project for joint seismic acquisition in the southeastern Barents

December 10, 2013
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Finance

Moody’s Sees Bad Shipping Loans Increasing at German Banks

Germany’s top shipping lenders, including Commerzbank AG and HSH Nordbank AG, face rising credit default risks next year as banks come under increasing

December 10, 2013
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Dry Bulk Shipping Comes Late To The E-Party

When importing a single cargo by sea requires an average of 36 original documents and 240 copies from 27 parties, the only wonder is that it has taken so long

December 10, 2013
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