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Japanese shipbuilders opt for alliances rather than mergers CDC lifts US no-sail order amid Covid but requires trial voyages Capesize spot rates fail to rally as market remains quiet Exmar prepares to ‘demobilise’ its Tango FLNG unit in Argentina US sells alleged Iranian gasoline for charity LNG demand growth and newbuilding overhang are key concerns, says Fearnleys Performance Shipping goes for 1-for-10 reverse stock split MISC Berhad hints at more orders following delivery of first VLEC newbuilding Is the big money ready to back bulkers as rates rise? VLCC rates may have bottomed out as oil price contango widens once more

Japanese shipbuilders opt for alliances rather than mergers

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China tanker giants enjoy profitable quarter; outlook weakens

U-Ming seeks recycling buyer for cape as Polaris scraps VLOC

CDC lifts US no-sail order amid Covid but requires trial voyages with volunteers

Is the big money ready to back bulkers as rates rise?

United Bulk Carriers International enters pre-bankruptcy proceedings in Italy

Market analysis

VLCC rates may have bottomed out as oil price contango widens again

MISC Berhad hints at more orders following delivery of first VLEC newbuilding

Exmar prepares to ‘demobilise’ its Tango FLNG unit in Argentina

Maria Angelicoussis: Making her mark at Maran

Shipbroker ends up on US blacklist in latest round of sanctions

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Weekly Edition

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Scorpio Bulkers considers en-bloc deals as it accelerates bulkers sell-off

High Court allows John Fredriksen to pursue fraud lawsuit

Fredriksen claims he let his executives 'run the show'

Cargill embraces high-tech yacht ‘wing sails’ for new emissions cut drive

Teekay Tankers wields axe on ship management execs

Smart Tankers says planning was key to thwarting pirate attack

Kitack Lim defends 'powerful' new IMO emissions measures

Hunger for older VLCCs continues as Onassis and Pantheon find buyers

CMB forges first commercial shipbuilding contract for HHIC in six years

Scorpio Group staff cuts coming as result of shift to wind

Tufton Oceanic picks up handysize as fleet expansion continues

Viewpoint

Europe should join IMO's lead on emissions reduction strategy

Hunter Group takes more VLCC cover as 'challenging' period looms

Dorian LPG rates miss consensus but VLGC markets stay firm

Bidders line up to make offers on small-scale FSRU for Corsica

Green revolution could reduce the life of ships, bankers warn

Shipowners can play coronavirus card on EU's new hazardous materials rules

Britannia P&I returns $10m in capital to members despite underwriting losses

Employers and unions set up Manila quarantine safe houses for seafarers

Danske Bank names top Scandinavian shipowners for ESG

Capesize spot rates fail to rally as market remains quiet

A second term for Trump could be good for tankers

US sells alleged Iranian gasoline for charity

Crew changes in western Australia ‘virtually impossible’

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Fearnleys says LNG demand and newbuilds are key concerns

Performance Shipping goes for 1-for-10 reverse stock split

Carnival's Arnold Donald: 'Always more to do' on diversity

Teekay Tankers wields axe on shipmanagement execs

Insight & Opinion

Andreas Sohmen-Pao: Nuclear option could prove catastrophic for shipping

Scorpio done with bulkers by end of March?

Shipping set for boom decade due to under investment in new ships, says Cleaves

Asian dry bulk markets in disarray as China shuns Australian coal

Pacific Basin Shipping tells banks 'please help us' in keeping bulker supply low

VLCC sale deals highlight 'disconnect' in tanker stock prices

Shipowners’ groups welcome Sea Cargo Charter without full endorsement

Cruise lines may need billions to get global fleet back on the move

China's hunger for iron ore lifts capesize bulker values

Wavelength

Arctic's very survival relies on shipping saying 'nyet' to the NSR

Comment

Three decades of TradeWinds offers lessons for the years ahead

String of VLCC sales emerge as buyers aim to take advantage of price slump

A Keppel-South Korean yard merger could be a game changer, says analyst

Noble Capital gives Pangaea thumbs up on growth through ice investment

Scorpio insiders 'take advantage of incredible sell-off' on shares

Supramaxes and handysizes see highest rates since November

Clarksons more optimistic but says pandemic shock will outstrip 2008 crash

GMF essay competition winner: Shipping must look beyond the numbers

Comment

Norwegian shipbroking faces a global challenge like never before

Why was Wakashio’s crew sailing desperately in search of a signal?

Portline sells supramaxes amid efforts at fleet renewal

Hoyer expands bunker tanker fleet as it eyes global market

Fincantieri and Chantiers de l’Atlantique take first steps in alliance

Are container freight derivatives becoming more appealing?

SEA-LNG: LNG gives competitive edge under Poseidon loans

Former IMO head William O’Neil dies aged 93

Business Focus

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Greek shipping looks to an era of opportunity

Greece tries to boost its flag but may fall short

Dorian LPG ‘a thousand times more educated’ on crew change after crisis

George Papadakis: a ship repair broker for all seasons

'Once in shipping, always in shipping' — Platsidakis knows next career path

Greek shipping looking to turn crisis into opportunity

Marine risk

Trio of losses rings up $100m in claims for hull underwriters

Marine risk

Pandemic exerts pressure on marine insurance sector

Marine risk

Shipping braced for increases in insurance rates

Marine risk

Marine insurers step up environmental social and governance strategies

Ship design

Marine technology groups divest even as digitalisation speeds up

Ship Design

Where is shipping’s Elon Musk and Tesla?

Ship design

Digital ecosystems aim to connect shipowners, start-ups and technology giants

Ship Design

Autonomous ship projects that are reshaping what's possible

Ship Design

Jotun's new anti-fouling robot to be deployed to 50 ships

Ship Design

Blockchain can track life cycle emissions of low-carbon fuels

Ship Design

Class societies move shipping industry towards ‘digital twin’ concept

Ship Design

Autonomous shipping: do we know what we're talking about?

Ship Design

Pandemic accelerates new technology, but Stopford warns 'these things take time'

Design and innovation

Fuel cells can power hotel load but not yet propel a big ship

MSC Cruises wants 50% female workforce by end of 2024

Stephen Gordon sees reason for hope that shipbuilders can survive order drought

Skarsgard: A businessman’s mind, a mariner's instincts

ESL eyes charters and reactivates bulkers as demand picks up

Maersk regulatory boss hits out at 'disappointing' IMO deal

Dual-fuel newbuilds in fashion amid carbon drive

LNG

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Rates for modern LNG carriers break past $100,000-per-day mark

Seafarers seized as pirates board Golar LNG carrier and Parakou tanker

DSME signs $1.7bn order for sextet of LNG newbuildings for Russia's Arctic gas exports

Croatia's first FSRU Golar Viking arrives off the coast

GasLog links up with IFC on Sierra Leone LNG-to-power

Hygo gets new chief executive, while gas customer backs out

Singapore LNG bunkering capacity likely to hit 1m tonnes by 2021

Arctic's very survival relies on shipping saying 'nyet' to the NSR

Golar joint venture disqualified from Petrobras terminal tender

Pavilion Energy and Gasum team up on LNG bunkering

While investors fled, BW Group grabbed Golar LNG shares

Shareholders launch legal battle after Golar LNG shares crash

Brazil launches investigation into Hygo chief executive, putting IPO in jeopardy

Posco International launches hunt for lone LNG newbuilding

Hygo management trio in line for $66m value in IPO bonuses

Third ship named for KARMOL LNG carrier to FSRU conversion

Hygo Energy Transition looks to raise up to $558m in US IPO

BP plans to double its LNG portfolio to 30 million tonnes by 2030

LNG is 'best we have' for eco fuel but costly to apply, owners say

Shell study claims 40% capex savings on LNG-fuelled VLCC

Kawasaki Heavy industries reports shipbuilding loss

European yards seek to buy time to see out Covid-19 crisis

Market analysis

Offshore wind pipeline grows 47% in 2020 despite pandemic

MOL profit up 20% as ONE reaps reward of hot liner market

Indian recyclers get in on cruiseship culling with Karnika buy

Kongsberg handing out $188m to shareholders after profit rises

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Meet 30 people who will shape shipping's future

Andi Case: You can’t ignore the empire he has built

Procopiou sisters: Siblings move centre stage

Kathrine Fredriksen: Reading the runes of a Norse saga

Christian Oldendorff: Seizing the economic potential of technological leadership

Cameron Mackey: Scorpio's quiet man on with a hand on the tiller

Alexander Saverys: CMB harnesses hydrogen in the battle against black swans

Ren Le Tian: Rebuilding Yangzijiang, his way

Andy Dacy: Veteran has seen a lot of markets and he likes what's to come

Andreas Sohmen-Pao: BW boss aims to be on the right side of history, by helping to shape it

20 questions with Radziwill: ‘Dude, how come we’re not a lot richer by now?’

Maria Prevezanou: The accidental insurance broker

Icebergs to Africa: Nick Sloane explains how to do it

20 questions with Sam Ka, HHI's digital dreamer

Cash and carry | Will shippers pay the price for carriers to go green?

Shipping’s new dawn — it’s early days yet

Idan Ofer looks on the bright side

The ship that went ashore to become a hotel

How environmental focus can give ‘green’ light for automation

New lease of life for Chinese finance giant

Banks back Keppel with $2.2bn debt package

Newbuilding outlook remains bearish amid uncertainty

South Korea's big three shipbuilding groups expected to miss 2020 targets

Shipbuilding

China’s shipbuilding industry bounces back from coronavirus

South Korea cuts further shipbuilding capacity as order slump continues

Barcelona seeks financing for cruise projects amid Covid-19

People

No quotas but Lorentzen & Stemoco leads in shipbroker gender diversity

Numbers tell their own story about Norwegian shipbroking shops’ equality

Vega Bulk Carriers launches in Oslo with ex-Western Bulk man at the helm

Golden Ocean's Semino resigns as chief commercial officer

Maersk to axe 2,000 staff as profit outlook improves

Barry Rogliano Salles CEO elected chairman as Tim Jones retires

V.Group rings the changes at German shipmanagement desk

Ulstein family hands shipyard reins to new CEO Cathrine Marti

Shell’s Grahaeme Henderson awarded in Queen’s Birthday Honours

India and Malta still have work to do on human rights

Angeliki Frangou and her brother John square up at trial in London

Sentosa Ship Brokers expands into India with industry veteran appointment

Frontline's Robert MacLeod enjoys big pay hike

Scott Borgerson resigns as CargoMetrics chief executive to avoid being a 'distraction'

Norwegian prime minister launches Odfjell's flexible fuel cell project

Peter Norborg joins Swire Bulk as new chief executive

John Fredriksen loses $1.1bn in a year

Hin Leong founder OK Lim hit with second forgery charge

Finn Engelsen calling it a day at Grieg Shipbrokers

DN investigation

Relatives offer Thomas Wilhelmsen $353m to quit family firms

AIDA Cruises halts sailing amid German Covid restrictions

Royal Caribbean posts negative revenue amid accounting error

US stocks rocked by tough week, but shipping shares are twice as bad

New Fortress buys offshore vessel for new LNG import solution

Capesize market 'loses confidence' as supply swamps Atlantic

GTT diversifies research efforts into hydrogen and ammonia

Interview

Lois Zabrocky: the Iowa farm kid who made it to the C-suite

Maritime Asset Partners 'building out' its team and its portfolio

'Once in shipping, always in shipping' — Platsidakis knows next career path

Claus-Peter Offen sells 'ill-fitting' bulker division

UK charity thinks outside the box to bring seafarers home

How Philip Eastell's horticultural career was nipped in the bud

Everything is coming up roses for Stella Maris

Designer AK Suda looks to consortium to tap US wind farm riches

ADS Crude Carriers reveals Plan A: to keep trading veteran VLCCs

Former Maersk man rises to the climate challenge for StormGeo

'E-residents' and zero tax for crew as Estonia rejigs register

ABN Amro’s Gorgels only has eyes for European shipowners

Yara Marine seeks to diversify from scrubbers into greener ship technologies

Norden's 'come a long way' in transition to asset trader

Scorpio Bulkers likely to go big on wind order and ditch the dry ships it now owns

Ardmore Shipping erases one risk from the equation: Libor

d’Amico facing up to crewing challenges amid fears of second wave

Number of scrubber retrofits so far is 'peanuts', Wartsila says

BULL targets 'sweet spot' as it charts international course

BULL bullish on dry bulk as prices become more attractive

Kirby pitches turnaround as Covid-19 drags on earnings

Maersk Tankers' ZeroNorth expands board as Cargill buys in

Analysis

Now what as Scorpio Bulkers waits for wind shift?

Hafnia to adopt bunker fuel derived from coal waste

DNV GL names former Telenor CEO as new chair

Ostensjo eyes expansion as Simon Mokster invests in crewing business

Boxships

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Former CMA CGM boxship breaks back en route to recycling yard

Seaspan and Capital fix latest boxship buys on long-term charters

CMA CGM systems back in business after dealing with cyber-attack

ERS Feeder Pool adds Transworld containerships in expansion drive

NSB poaches PIL fleet manager Panneer Selvam for Asian push

Matson signals higher results amid transpacific demand

Stranded RAL boxship freed from ice off Greenland

Maersk jobs under threat as company says 27,000 staff 'affected' by shake-up

Zoom boom: 'Titan' Atlas tipped to prosper as Fearnley Securities upgrades boxship sector

TS Lines books feeder boxships worth $92m at Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding

Germany's DAL/JTE steers back to boxship and tanker roots

Boxship owners’ green recycling boosts Indian breakers in monsoon season

MOL boxship diverted to Colombo after fire in cargo hold

Singapore approves liner consortia exemption until end of 2021

CMA CGM sees silver lining on booming transpacific trade

Pacific International Lines founder YC Chang dies aged 102

Asiatic/Atlantic Lloyd takes panamax boxship fleet into double digits

Terminal plan to turn Mississippi River into containership highway

Evergreen rekindles boxship newbuilding hunt with neo-panamax enquiry

MPC Container Ships losses mount in 'one of history's worst years'

Dramatic Navios product tanker rescue adds to security fears

Charter market

LNG carrier spot rates inch higher as tonnage pool slims

Pareto auctioning OSV duo as banks seek to recover $267m

Siem Offshore calls for mergers as rivals take 'unsustainable' rates

UPDATE

Hunter Group plans shareholder payout as it confirms VLCC sales

Pareto Bank's shipping book reduced but loan losses also down

Offshore

Keppel secures mystery $440m offshore renewable vessel order

Banks take back Hermitage PSV fleet at 62% of outstanding debt

Swire Blue Ocean looks to ride WTIV wave to Oslo IPO

OHT firms up new wind farm installation ships for 2023

Seaowl aims to pioneer unmanned offshore support vessels

Scorpio Bulkers' wind 'pivot' begins with sale of first kamsarmax unit

GC Rieber saving $8m as it stretches debt deal for a year

PGS closes on $1.2bn debt deal after 'dramatic' market plunge

Siem Offshore says consolidate or wave goodbye to profits

Creditors cash out of Solstad after taking 97%-plus haircut

Sealed with a bump: Wilhelmsen and Ostensjo eye wind newbuildings

Swire Blue Ocean eyes double wind farm installation vessel order

Vroon PSV trio set for ‘green’ demolition in Netherlands

DOF asks for more time as $2bn debt deal drags on

Bourbon selling its Les Abeilles rescue and salvage fleet

Seadrill gets another nine days to pay interest on loans

Blystad's OHT lands second Equinor wind farm installation deal

Solstad starts auction to buy back $107m of debt for $8m

Ocean Yield to book $130m impairments for troublesome offshore vessels

Wilhelmsen breezes into wind farm vessel arena with Ostensjo deal

Video

Master charged after Maersk ship cuts Greek minesweeper in two

Essar Shipping tests buyer appetite for its six mini-capes

Novatek poaches Sovcomflot's Ambrosov for top maritime job

Irene Lan takes helm of bulker owner Shih Wei Navigation

Odfjell chairman slams autonomous ships as a low priority for shipping

NYK Line chopping Nagoya listing as streamlining continues

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