Gong Xi Fa Cai, Kung Hei Fat Choi, and Chúc mừng Năm Mới! Happy Lunar New Year to all our readers, and welcome to the Year of the Dragon. At least, this is one time of year where nobody will be sneaking abandoned offshore rigs and supply vessels out of Chinese shipyards to the market […]
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By Zohra Bensemra and Sebastian Rocandio TYRE, Lebanon, Oct 29 (Reuters) – Fishermen in the Lebanese city of Tyre are among those counting the costs of war in the Middle East. As…
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DUBAI, Oct 13 (Reuters) – No hydrocarbon finds were made after exploratory drilling operations at Lebanon’s offshore Block 9, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Friday. Lebanon’s energy minister and officials from…
https://gcaptain.com/no-gas-finds-at-lebanons-offshore-block-9/
Kylie Minogue has a new pop single out this week, called Tension, which is most appropriate. There’s tension in the Eastern Mediterranean, tension across the offshore wind industry, as another major operator takes a big write off, and tension in Maersk Supply Service, where 130 British staff face redundancy, the COO has been let go, […]
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The eighth annual The Maritime Standard Tanker Conference will take place on Wednesday 8th November 2023 at The Atlantis, the Palm, Dubai. This year the primary focus of the three conference sessions will be on environmental protection and sustainability, but the event will also highlight some of the key underlying trends affecting the operation of tankers, in the crude oil, product, chemical and gas sectors.
One of the most interesting parts of the Conference will be Session 2 in the afternoon,...
https://www.themaritimestandard.com/tms-tanker-conference-to-assess-operational-challenges/
French liner CMA CGM, via subsidiary Colis Privé, is the only company to have lodged a bid to take over Lebanon’s postal services. Lebanon’s caretaker minister of telecommunications Johnny Corm confirmed yesterday the offer made by CMA CGM to take over the nation’s postal service contract CMA CGM...
https://splash247.com/cma-cgm-lodges-bid-to-run-lebanons-postal-services/
AMMAN, Jan 29 (Reuters) – Lebanon’s top Christian cleric called on Sunday for the judge struggling to investigate the Beirut port explosion to be able to pursue his work and get help…
https://gcaptain.com/judge-probing-beirut-port-blast-must-be-allowed-to-pursue-truth/
Former Lebanese prime minister Hassan Diab has been charged with homicide with probable intent over the devastating Beirut port explosions in 2020 that killed at least 218 people. Tarek Bitar, a Lebanese judge investigating the explosions, has also charged Abbas Ibrahim, chief of Lebanese General...
https://splash247.com/former-lebanese-pm-faces-homicide-charge-over-beirut-port-blast/
It has been a frenzied few weeks in the wind and subsea markets, with newbuild orders piling up. The last month has seen over one billion US dollars committed to vessels ..
BEIRUT, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Lebanese President Michel Aoun and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday discussed delineating their countries’ shared maritime border, a Lebanese official said. A dispute over their shared sea boundary…
https://gcaptain.com/lebanon-syria-discuss-sea-border-after-beiruts-israel-deal/