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German shipmanagement and shipping companies Harren Group and NSB Group have launched a new manning agent, Albireo, in the Philippines. The Manila-based team currently manages around 800 seafarers, who are deployed across approximately 90 vessels worldwide. “Albireo allows us to align our crewing processes with a unified operational standard and strong team spirit,” said Tim …
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https://splash247.com/harren-and-nsb-form-crewing-joint-venture-in-manila/Erin Walton from the West of England P&I Club writes for Splash today. Shipping’s fuel transition is moving faster than the frameworks designed to manage its risks. While the industry has invested significant time and capital into assessing the technical and commercial viability of alternative fuels, far less attention has been paid to who carries …
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https://splash247.com/alternative-fuels-are-here-but-liability-frameworks-are-not/Peter Georgiopoulos and Leo Vrondissis-led United Overseas Group is diversifying from its tanker base, announcing it is buying Norvic Shipping’s commercial platform and nine Japanese-built bulkers. The acquisition via the group’s trading arm transfers the entire issued share capital of Norvic Shipping Europe, Norvic Shipping Middle East, and Norvic Shipping Ventures to United Overseas Trading, …
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https://splash247.com/georgiopoulos-and-vrondissis-diversify-into-dry-bulk-with-norvic-purchase/The dark clouds swirling around the container shipping industry intensified today with Maersk following Japan’s Ocean Network Express, in announcing its ocean division had slipped into the red for the final quarter of 2025. The Danish shipping giant also revealed today it will lay off 1,000 staff this year as cost discipline rises up the …
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https://splash247.com/maersk-posts-ocean-loss-1000-job-cuts-as-container-boom-unwinds/Greek shipowner Evangelos Pistiolis has re-entered the newbuilding market, placing an order for 10 MR product tankers in China in a deal approaching $500m. Pistiolis’ privately held Central Group has signed up for the 50,000 dwt vessels at Guangzhou Shipyard International (GSI), marking the group’s first newbuilding contract in China after years of relying on …
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https://splash247.com/pistiolis-in-for-10-mr-tanker-newbuilds-in-china/The service "ClassNK Fleet Cost Simulation" provided by ClassNK has been honored with the Best Project Innovation Award at the Saudi Maritime Awards, hosted by Robban Assafina, the maritime media platform in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/classnk-fleet-cost-simulation-receives-535263Oil prices steadied on Wednesday after rising earlier in the session after the U.S. shot down an Iranian drone and armed Iranian boats approached a U.S.-flagged vessel, rekindling fears of an escalation in tensions ahead of planned talks.But a broader selloff of software equities…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/oil-prices-rise-usiran-tensions-535264Fifteen migrants died after their boat collided with a Greek coast guard vessel, capsized and sank off the island of Chios in the Aegean Sea late on Tuesday, the coast guard said, in one of the deadliest migrant shipwrecks in Greece in years.The…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/fifteen-migrants-dead-boat-collides-greek-535267Hong Kong's CK Hutchison said on Wednesday its Panama Ports Company unit has started international arbitration proceedings against Panama after the country's top court annulled its licences to operate two Panama Canal ports, in a case that could…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/ck-hutchison-launches-arbitration-panama-535268Norway's Socialist Party has withdrawn its support for a proposal to block Equinor's Hammerfest liquefied natural gas plant from receiving a planned onshore power connection, clearing the way for the grid development to proceed.Parliament is due on Thursday to vote on an opposition proposal seeking
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