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258: International Day for Women in Maritime 2025!

15 May 2025

Happy International Day for Women in Maritime 2025!

Lena is at the IMO to celebrate the International Day for Women in Maritime and attend the IMO Gender Equality Award Ceremony.

The International Day for Women in Maritime has been celebrated globally on May 18th every year since 2019. This year, the International Maritime Organisation is conducting a Symposium on the theme An Ocean of Opportunities for Women.

Of course, the highlight of the day will be the IMO Gender Equality Award, which this...

https://shippingpodcast.com/258-international-day-for-women-in-maritime-2025/

Op-Ed: Shipowners at a decarbonization crossroads

22 April 2025

By Jonathan Strachan, Chief Technical Officer, Houlder

The shipping industry is navigating uncharted waters as it confronts the complex challenge of decarbonization. A recent qualitative survey by Houlder, the London-based design and engineering consultancy, sheds light on the tough decisions shipowners must make in a rapidly shifting regulatory and political landscape. Jonathan Strachan, Houlder’s Chief Technical Officer, offers insights from his discussions with shipowners grappling with the...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/op-ed-shipowners-at-a-decarbonization-crossroads/

Stena Bulk to register 5 tankers under Swedish flag

16 April 2025

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A Suezmax tanker is one of the largest types of tankers and is approximately 275 meters long with a gross tonnage of 81,000 tonnes. Up to five of these vessels …

https://maritime-professionals.com/stena-bulk-to-register-5-tankers-under-swedish-flag/

Geneva Dry Dialogues: DryDel Shipping

13 January 2025

Costas Delaportas, president and CEO of Greece’s DryDel Shipping, has managed to find the time to rub shoulders with more than 100 of his shipowning peers when he attends April’s second edition of Geneva Dry, the world’s premier commodities shipping conference. DryDel was among one of the busiest...

https://splash247.com/geneva-dry-dialogues-drydel-shipping/

Geneva Dry Dialogues: Precious Shipping

19 November 2024

Making predictions in shipping is akin to chewing glass, Khalid Hashim, managing director of Thailand’s largest dry bulk owner, Precious Shipping. “Only the insane would do that,” he says, stressing: “Predictions in shipping are always wrong.” Nevertheless, when pressed to give his take on where...

https://splash247.com/geneva-dry-dialogues-precious-shipping/

Danish shipowner achieves impressive results

3 July 2024

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The family-owned shipping company, Rhode Nielsen, known for its coastal protection along the Jutland’s west coast, concluded 2023 with a pre-tax profit of DKK 740 million—a significant increase of …

https://maritime-professionals.com/danish-shipowner-achieves-impressive-results/

Geneva Dry Dialogues: Bahri Dry Bulk

18 March 2024

In the 2020s to date, the dry bulk fleet at Bahri, the national shipping company of Saudi Arabia, has more than doubled in size, and plans are afoot to significantly scale up the fleet further. In an exclusive interview ahead of the company’s participation at Geneva Dry in 45 days’ time, Mohammed...

https://splash247.com/geneva-dry-dialogues-bahri-dry-bulk/

Geneva Dry Dialogues: John Michael Radziwill

7 December 2023

In the coming months ahead of the inaugural Geneva Dry event organised by Splash, we will be sitting down with key names attending the dry bulk mega summit. In the hot seat today: John Michael Radziwill. Cape markets have been on a spin worthy of the famous casino in Monte Carlo this month, spiking...

https://splash247.com/geneva-dry-dialogues-john-michael-radziwill/

The Caravel Group: Cocktails mixed to celebrate 10th anniversary

24 November 2023

One of the social highlights of Hong Kong Maritime Week takes place tonight at the Four Seasons Hotel with the annual cocktails of The Caravel Group, which this year are also a moment to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the company’s founding by one of the city’s most famous names in shipping and...

https://splash247.com/the-caravel-group-cocktails-mixed-to-celebrate-10th-anniversary/

Taylor Maritime Investments: Strong fundamentals ahead

29 March 2023

Edward Buttery, the chief executive of Taylor Maritime Investments and Grindrod Shipping, maintains a quietly bullish sentiment on handysize bulker rates, encouraged by recent market firming, with rates on the Baltic Exchange up by over 50% between February and March. “I expect the market to remain...

https://splash247.com/taylor-maritime-investments-strong-fundamentals-ahead/

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