dry bulk shipping

TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. today announced that it has ordered a new cape-size bulker that will adopt element technologies of the next-generation

Safe Bulkers, Inc. (the “Company”) (NYSE: SB) announced today that it has entered into a shipbuilding contract for the construction of one

When the world’s largest ore carrier, Vale Brasil, was loaded to her marks with 391,000 tons of iron ore in May she departed Brazil with the intention of

Aristides Pittas, Chairman and CEO of Euroseas Ltd. (NASDAQ: ESEA), an owner and operator of drybulk carriers and container vessels, commented on the

Hyundai Heavy Industries says it has completed final performance testing on a scale model of a 190,000 DWT icebreaking iron ore carrier that, once completed,

LONDON (Dow Jones)–Dry bulk freight rates, already down 30% in value since the start of 2011, are likely to fall further over the coming months as slower

  Photo: SHASHI ASHIWAL www.thehindu.com There must be a giant magnet sitting underneath Mumbai’s Juhu Beach because in less than 6 weeks, two huge

Image from minnesotansforglobalwarming.com PERTH (Dow Jones)–State-owned China Ocean Shipping (Group) Co. said Monday that oil-price speculators are

Confidence dips to two-year low as concern mounts over rising fuel costs and overtonnaging The latest Shipping confidence survey from accountant and shipping

M/V Tsuru, a self-unloading coal carrier, was outbound from Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island last week.  This vessel is currently on the spot charter market and

By Alexander Wardwell, DNV Oshima Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. and DNV are pleased to announce the completion of the first milestone of a joint programme to develop

Over the past year or so, the IMO has come up with a calculation that gives a rough idea of the energy efficiency of a ship.  This number is

Image taken by Rob Almeida at Galena Park, Houston.  This bulk carrier was taking on grain bound for Port

(Image Source: blogimg.goo.ne.jp) This week’s Interesting Ship of The Week was actually recently named Ship of The Year for 2007 by The Japan Society of

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6UKhFpkE3Q Pilots boarding the M/V Berge Stahl, the world’s largest bulk

The ship that made gCaptain famous is back in the headlines. The M/V Pasha Bulker, a 76,741 deadweight ton Panamax bulk carrier launched in 2006, is the

Photo By suburbanbloke In a post unusually harsh for gCaptain standards I asked some tough questions about actions taken by the captain of the doomed ship,

We brought you the story of a collision between the bulk carrier M/V Alpha Action and and container ship M/V Wan Hai 307 late last month in a post

Two ships have collided off the coast of Japan. Shipping Times tells us: On July 27, 2007, at 01:50 local time, M/V Alpha Action, chartered by Nippon Yusen