Japanese owner Kumiai Senpaku has returned to CSSC Chengxi Shipyard to order one 37,000 dwt asphalt tanker and one 50,000 dwt MR tanker. The order follows Kumiai ordering two kamsarmax bulker at NACKS and one VLGC at Kawasaki Heavy Industries in February. Kumiai took delivery of three asphalt...
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Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, president and CEO of Qatar Petroleum, fired the starting gun today on this year’s most sought after ship order. Al-Kaabi, who is also Qatar’s energy minister, put pen to paper in video link between Doha and Beijing, signing for fifteen 174,000 cu m LNG carriers at China’s...
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Chinese chemical tanker operator Dingheng Shipping has completed a sale and leaseback deal for a 2010-built chemical tanker in its fleet. The company has sold its 3,900 dwt chemical tanker Ding Heng 9 to domestic leasing house JIC Leasing and chartered it back. The terms of the deal were not...
Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (DSIC), a flagship yard of China Shipbuilding Industry, has announced that its affiliate company DSIC Changxing Island Ship Engineering has acquired entire assets of two bankrupt subsidiaries through auctions. Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Marine Services,...
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There is a historian’s in-joke going round to the effect that if you ever wanted to know what the fourteenth century felt like in Europe, you know, now, because we have two popes and a pestilence. This is quite a shrewd observation, because it looks as if Europe and North America are being...
China Merchants Heavy Industry, the shipbuilding unit of China Merchants Group, has integrated a number of its subsidiary shipyards into the new brand China Merchant Jinling as part of its business development strategy. Under the new branding initiative, two former Sinotrans Jinling yards have been...
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Australian OSV firm MMA Offshore has been awarded a contract to support foundation installation for an offshore wind farm project off Taiwan. The project will see MPSV providing integrated subsea services to monitor the seabed for dredging and piling work over a two month period. David Ross,...
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Danish offshore wind specialist Ørsted has signed a 15-year charter contract with Ta San Shang Marine, a joint venture of Taiwan’s Ta Tong Marine Group (TTM) and Japan’s MOL, which will see the construction of the first-ever Taiwan-flagged service operation vessel (SOV). The SOV will be used for...
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William Fairclough, the managing director of Hong Kong shipowner Wah Kwong Maritime Transport Holdings, has hailed the financial resilience of shipping compared to aviation and other transport sectors during the ongoing coronavirus crisis. Speaking in the second episode of the Maritime CEO Leader...
China will be the leader in autonomous shipping by 2025, technology research and innovation consultancy Thetius predicts in a new research report on the sector. Thetius analysed close to 3,000 patents relating to autonomous shipping technology and found that 96% of them were registered in China....
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