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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
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NYC’s Prison Barge – The Most Depressing Barge in the World?

New York City Prison Barge, The Vernon C. Bain Center (VCBC), is an 800-bed jail barge that is designed to handle inmates from medium- to maximum-security in

July 31, 2012
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Engineering News

Rongsheng Heavy Faces Even Tougher Times, Market Value Has Fallen by Over $5 Billion

(Bloomberg) — China Rongsheng Heavy Industries Group Holdings Ltd., which hasn’t announced any 2012 ship orders, may find winning deals even harder

July 31, 2012
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Finance

Danaos Stays in the Black While Market Uncertainty Holds the Containership Sector in Limbo

With an average contract duration of over 10 years, Greek containership owner, Danaos Corporation (NYSE: DAC) is largely protected from the fluctuations found

July 31, 2012
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News

MAERSK Line: “We Cannot Sustain Continual Losses”

MELBOURNE–A worldwide glut of containers and a fall in demand for shipped goods during the global financial crisis have pushed shipping prices to

July 31, 2012
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Finance

NYK Lines to Reduce LNG Carrier and FPSO Expenditures By ¥100 Billion

TOKYO–Nippon Yusen KK (9101.TO) said Tuesday that it has slashed its investment to build new liquefied natural gas carriers and floating production,

July 31, 2012
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Finance

Japanese Consortium Gains Nearly $2 Billion in Financing for Wheatstone LNG Development

TOKYO–Japan Bank For International Cooperation has signed a contract to lend up to $1.927 billion dollars to a Japanese consortium that owns a minor

July 31, 2012
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Monday, July 30, 2012
News

Bunker Prices are Still Crushing Shipowners as Asian VLCCs Post Huge Net Losses

(Bloomberg) — Losses widened for oil tankers hauling 2 million-barrel crude cargoes on the industry’s benchmark route to Asia from the Persian Gulf

July 30, 2012
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Uncategorized

Last Pieces of MV Tycoon Hauled Off Christmas Island

More than six months after wrecking on the jagged cliffs of Australia’s Christmas Island, the last remaining pieces of the M/V Tycoon have been removed

July 30, 2012
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News

Rongsheng Shipbuilding Chairman Tied to CNOOC-Nexen Insider Trading Scandal

(Bloomberg) — China Rongsheng Heavy Industries Group Holdings Ltd. plunged to its lowest level since 2010 in Hong Kong trading after the U.S. Securities

July 30, 2012
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News

Panamax Bookings Take a Dive as Chinese Coal Demand Softens

(Bloomberg) — The number of cargoes booked on Panamax bulk carriers, the largest to transit the Panama Canal, slumped 33 percent in July amid slowing

July 30, 2012
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Defense

67 Years Ago, A Cargo of Death and Sea of Horror

67 years ago, USS Indianapolis (CA-35) arrived at the Pacific island of Tinian to deliver the firing mechanism and uranium-235 material for the first atomic

July 30, 2012
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News

Knightsbridge Gets Burned by Capesize Charterers, Damages Sought

Knightsbridge Tankers Limited (Nasdaq:VLCCF) announced today that two of its charterers, Hong Xiang Shipping Holding Co Limited and Sanko Steamship, have

July 30, 2012
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Interesting

It’s Really Gonna Happen This Time, the Exxon Valdez is Doomed

(Bloomberg) — India’s Supreme Court ruled that the ship that spilt millions of gallons of oil in waters off Alaska in 1989 can be recycled in the

July 30, 2012
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News

China Plans to Triple LNG Consumption in the Near Future

(Bloomberg) — China National Offshore Oil Corp. won government approval to build another liquefied natural gas terminal in southern China’s

July 30, 2012
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Finance

Mired in Debt, Vantage Drilling Reports Another Tough Quarter

In their recent SEC filing, Vantage Drilling Company (NYSE: VTG) reports carrying over $2 billion in long term debt, nearly double last year’s figure

July 30, 2012
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Sunday, July 29, 2012
News

Hapag-Lloyd Celebrates 120 Years of Liner Service to Canada

In 1892, the first steamer “Cremon” set sail for Montreal flying the Hapag flag.  Today, Hapag-Lloyd is the largest container carrier in Canada,

July 29, 2012
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Defense

Global Navies Assemble for RIMPAC [IMAGES]

Twenty-two nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are currently participating in the biennial Rim of the

July 29, 2012
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Saturday, July 28, 2012
News

Petrobras Launches Campaign to Get Campos Basin Back on Track

BRASILIA–Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petrobras (PBR, PETR4.BR) Friday launched a program to increase efficiency at its operations in

July 28, 2012
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Friday, July 27, 2012
News

OSX Brasil Positioning Itself to Compete for Big Petrobras Contracts

RIO DE JANEIRO–Brazilian shipbuilder and oil-field-services company OSX Brasil SA (OSXB3.BR), part of billionaire businessman Eike Batista’s

July 27, 2012
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Bunga Alpinia Death Toll Rises to Three

The death toll in the chemical tanker fire in Malaysia has risen to three after two more bodies were recovered from the water not far from the burning tanker.

July 27, 2012
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