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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Littoral Combat Ship Network Can Be Hacked, Navy Probe Finds
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Littoral Combat Ship Network Can Be Hacked, Navy Probe Finds

The computer network on the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship is vulnerable to hacking, a new report has

Tuesday, April 23, 2013
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Finance

StealthGas To Fund LPG Fleet Expansion Through Share Offering

StealthGas Inc. (NASDAQ:GASS) announced today their plans to offer 8,000,000 shares of its common stock in order to partially fund the acquisition of five

April 23, 2013
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An Uncertain Fuel Future

By Nick Brown Last week I took part in the SEAaT Fuelling the Future Conference in London, chairing the afternoon session on future fuels. It was an

April 23, 2013
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Australia’s Sino Iron Project Faces New Delay
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Australia’s Sino Iron Project Faces New Delay

China's CITIC Pacific is delaying completion of its $8 billion Sino Iron project in Australia until late May because of engineering

April 23, 2013
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Total Gabon Executes 5-Year Contract for Smit Lamnalco Tugs

The Damen Shipyards Galati-built tugs, SL Gabon and SL Libreville, were welcomed to the SMIT Lamnalco fleet at a ceremony at Port-Gentil, Gabon last week.  

April 23, 2013
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Fugro Extends Subsea Vessel Charters with Havila Shipping

Havila Shipping ASA announced today they have agreed with Fugro TSM in Perth, Australia to extend the firm contract period for the 2005/2007-built subsea

April 23, 2013
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
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Gas Natural Signs Time Charter for LNG Libra

Höegh LNG announced today their 126,000 cubic meter LNG carrier, LNG Libra has been chartered by Spanish natural gas utilities company Gas Natural. The

April 23, 2013
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ExxonMobil Charters Pair of VLCCs at Lowest Rates of 2013

April 22 (Bloomberg) — Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s biggest energy company by market value, booked two tankers to haul oil to the U.S. Gulf Coast

April 23, 2013
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NordLB: The Darkest Hour of Shipping Has Passed

FRANKFURT, April 23 (Reuters) – NordLB’s, one of the world’s top ten ship financiers, expects the shipping industry to have passed its

April 23, 2013
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Monday, April 22, 2013
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News

Chinese Fishing Vessel Pulled from Tubbataha Reef

Investigators to look into the 400 boxes of dead anteaters found beneath the cargo hold

April 22, 2013
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SPOTD – Lightspeed on the Houston Ship Channel

Long exposure going under the Fred Hartmann Bridge on the Houston Ship Channel. Image by Lou Vest/Oneighteen See more of his fantastic photography on his

April 22, 2013
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Monday, April 22, 2013
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Who’s Building LNG Carriers?

 There are currently 94 LNG carrier new builds on order.  Here’s where they are being built, and who’s buying them. Data via: Petroleum

April 22, 2013
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Clarkson Publishes New Ship Rates and Alters Old Ones for Fuel
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Clarkson Publishes New Ship Rates and Alters Old Ones for Fuel

Clarkson Plc, the world’s largest shipbroker, began publishing new shipping rates, discontinued others, and revised historical ones to reflect changes

April 22, 2013
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HSH Nordbank Cuts Bad Ship Loans Through 10 Ship Deal With Navios
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HSH Nordbank Cuts Bad Ship Loans Through 10 Ship Deal With Navios

Deal marks Navios' entry into the container ship

April 22, 2013
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News

Going Big with Floating LNG

In front of one of the most packed audiences of last week’s LNG 17 conference in Houston, Texas, ExxonMobil’s Chief Offshore Engineer, Ro Lokken,

April 22, 2013
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Breakaway Barges Wreak Havoc Along Mississippi River
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Breakaway Barges Wreak Havoc Along Mississippi River

The U.S. Coast Guard has closed a portion of the Mississippi River near St. Louis after 114 barges broke free late

April 22, 2013
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Monday, April 22, 2013
Keppel Forms Seabed Mineral Mining JV
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Keppel Forms Seabed Mineral Mining JV

New joint venture intends to search and recover polymetallic nodules found several kilometers beneath the ocean's

April 22, 2013
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Mitsui Shipbuilding Gains 21 Percent on Report of Merger Talks with KHI
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Mitsui Shipbuilding Gains 21 Percent on Report of Merger Talks with KHI

(Bloomberg) — Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. surged to 5 1/2-year high on a Nikkei report it plans to hold merger talks with Kawasaki Heavy

April 22, 2013
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Petronas Pulls $3 Billion Bid for MISC Berhad, Shares Tumble

(Bloomberg) — MISC Bhd., the world’s second- largest shipper of liquefied natural gas, tumbled the most in 14 years in Kuala Lumpur stock trading

April 22, 2013
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Sunday, April 21, 2013
SPOTD – Vela’s Product Tanker Alnasl Star Docks at Duba, Saudi Arabia
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SPOTD – Vela’s Product Tanker Alnasl Star Docks at Duba, Saudi Arabia

A fisherman pulls in his net as the 49k DWT product tanker, Alnasl Star transfers cargo at the northwestern Saudi Arabia port city of Duba on 20 April 2013.

April 21, 2013
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Norway’s Ruling Party Backs Drilling Off Picturesque Lofoten Islands

OSLO, April 21 (Reuters) – Norway took a major step towards opening up an environmentally sensitive Arctic area to oil and gas exploration when the

April 21, 2013
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