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By Maiya Keidan and Jonathan Saul LONDON, Feb 15 (Reuters) – Shipping stocks may still be in the doldrums in the view of many investors, but hedge funds

By Jonas Bergman (Bloomberg) — Norway’s wealth fund dumped a series of companies involved in making nuclear weapons and excluded others based on human

  By Gavin van Marle (TheLoadStar) A dramatic turnaround in the fortunes of recently acquired APL helped French carrier CMA CGM offset a slight

by Tom Hals (Bloomberg) Oilfield services firm Ezra Holdings Ltd (EZRA.SI) of Singapore filed for U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Saturday, blaming a prolonged

By Mike Wackett (TheLoadstar) Brokers are reporting good news for embattled containership owners this week in the container charter market, with a big rise in

Today the Connecticut Maritime Association (CMA) named Mr. John D. “Jack” Noonan, CEO of Chembulk Tankers,  Commodore for the year 2017.

(Bloomberg) HSH Nordbank AG will stick to its full-year outlook when it reports nine-months results next week, a crucial yardstick for potential investors as

by Luca Casiraghi (Bloomberg) Havila Shipping ASA avoided a potential bankruptcy filing, after bondholders accepted a debt-restructuring deal hours before a

US-listed shipping stocks ended their head-scratching post-election rally on Thursday with a major correction that saw some stocks fall more than 50% since

DryShips on Thursday said it has raised $20 million through a registered direct offering but otherwise cannot explain the meteoric rise in the price of its

By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK, Nov 16 (Reuters) – Shares of U.S. shipping companies shot higher again on Wednesday, tripping various volatility halts

By Julie Verhage (Bloomberg) — A 1,500 percent stock surge since Nov. 8? It’s possible in Trump’s America. DryShips Inc., which owns tankers

By Steve Slater LONDON, Nov 4 (IFR) – Pillarstone, the platform set up by US private equity firm KKR to buy non-core bank assets in Europe, looks set to

German state-controlled lender NordLB has agreed to take full control of its loss-making Bremer Landesbank (BLB) unit, which is suffering from a weak shipping

by Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) Oil and gas companies operating in Norway, western Europe’s biggest producer, cut investment forecasts further for this year and

by Maria Sheahan (Reuters) Aug 22 German state-owned lender NordLB and KKR Credit said they had reached an agreement by which KKR Credit will acquire a $1.5

By Andreas Kröner FRANKFURT, June 21 (Reuters) – The European Central Bank is taking a hard look at lenders’ ship financing portfolios amid a

FRANKFURT, Feb 22 (Reuters) – German bank NordLB and two partners have formed a joint venture that will specialise in advising on the restructuring of

  By Rujun Shen SINGAPORE, Oct 20 (Reuters) – Offshore services firms in the Asian oil hub of Singapore are turning to higher-cost alternative

  By Pamela Barbaglia and Jonathan Saul LONDON, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Distressed debt investors are looking to buy shipping loans from Italian banks,