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The first newcastlemax sales of the month are ticking in with brokers reporting Charalambos Mylonas-led Transmed has privately let go of two 203,000 dwt, Bohai-built big bulkers, the Newmax and the Cape Kallia, for $38m each. Both ships hit the water in 2012. Newmax is now renamed Rosebank and has been sold to Pioneer Bulk, …
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https://splash247.com/transmed-offloads-newcastlemax-pair/John Fredriksen’s SFL Corporation has bought two LNG dual-fuel 33,000 dwt chemical tankers for approximately $114 and arranged long-term charters. The vessels are built in 2022 and 2023 and fitted with stainless steel cargo tanks. SFL also arranged long-term employment for the vessels with affiliates of Stolt Tankers, a subsidiary of Stolt-Nielsen. Stolt Tankers and …
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https://splash247.com/sfl-buys-dual-fuel-chemical-tanker-pair-fixes-them-out-to-stolt-tankers/VLGC owner and operator BW LPG is poised to see its shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, April 29. The Oslo-listed unit of Singapore’s BW Group said that the NYSE had approved the listing and that it expects to start transferring shares on or about April 25. The Kristian Sørensen-led company …
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https://splash247.com/bw-lpg-shares-set-to-start-trading-on-nyse-next-week/Mark Charman, CEO and founder of Faststream Recruitment, provides Splash with an abridged version of a speech he gave in Singapore last week. The maritime landscape is undergoing profound transformations, driven by technological advancements, shifting workforce dynamics, and evolving industry demands. Our ongoing surveys across diverse maritime sectors illuminate these changes, highlighting the evolving relationship …
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https://splash247.com/maritime-recruitment-trends-and-strategies-for-success/The International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) legal committee is meeting this week in London and is discussing one of shipping’s darkest, most intractable problems, crew abandonment, with record numbers of seafarers being left to fend for themselves by owners across the world. Latest statistics from the database coordinated by the IMO and sister United Nations body, …
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https://splash247.com/imo-discusses-how-to-stem-record-cases-of-crew-abandonment/Singaporean shipowner Grace Ocean and ship manager Synergy Group face trial in Baltimore after lawyers for the city filed a case yesterday, claiming the ship that knocked over a huge bridge killing six people last month had left port with “unseaworthy” conditions. The legal battle over the Dali containership’s fatal allison with the Francis Scott …
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https://splash247.com/baltimore-takes-dali-owner-and-manager-to-court/Belships announced has expanded its newbuild program with two new 64,000 dwt Ultramax bulk carriers scheduled for delivery in 2028.The Norwegian-based company now has a total of 10 newbuilds under construction at Japanese shipyards with delivery between 2024 and 2028.
https://www.marinelink.com/news/belships-expands-newbuild-program-513152
https://www.marinelink.com/news/belships-expands-newbuild-program-513152As U.S. shale oil boomed last decade, an oil pipeline company pitched an ambitious multi-billion-dollar export port off the Texas coast to ship domestic crude to buyers in Europe and Asia.In April, Enterprise Products Partners' SPOT became the first project to receive a license from the U.S.
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/shale-oil-gains-slow-deepwater-port-513153Maritime Authority of Jamaica’s Director General, Rear Admiral (ret’d) Peter Brady, has retired, with the position being accepted by Bertrand Smith, formerly the MAJ’s Director of Legal Affairs.Brady has served in this role since the Maritime Authority’s inception in 1999.As Director General…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/rear-admiral-peter-brady-retires-maritime-513154
https://www.marinelink.com/news/rear-admiral-peter-brady-retires-maritime-513154The MSC Foundation, the MSC Group and Mercy Ships International have joined forces to build a new hospital ship.On 8 April, the chairman of MSC Group and MSC Foundation, Capt. Gianluigi Aponte, MSC Group President and Member of the MSC Foundation Board…
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