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Brexit: Potential Implications For The Maritime Sector

Jul 13, 2016

While the nature of the United Kingdom’s future trading relationship with the European Union (EU) will take some time to become clear, it is important to realise that in the immediate aftermath of the result of the UK’s recent EU referendum…

ISS Awarded NYK Liner Agency in Australia

Jul 12, 2016

Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) has been awarded the NYK Liner agency in Australia.  Part of the Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha Group, one of the world’s leading transportation companies, NYK Line container services has appointed ISS to represent…

Vard Bags Electrical Work for UK Polar Research Ship

Jul 12, 2016

Vard Holdings Limited's subsidiary Vard Electro AS has secured a contract for the delivery of an engineering and electrical installation package for U.K.’s new $290 million polar research vessel under construction for the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)…

OEM Bags £1m Go Marine Fleet Deal

Jul 12, 2016

OEM Group has secured a two-year contract worth up to £1 million with Go Marine to deliver engine support services to its fleet of vessels operating across the world for the oil and gas industry. Under the global technical support and services agreement…

UK Shipping & Transport OMBs Confident of an Up-Swing

Jul 10, 2016

A survey by leading accountant Moore Stephens has revealed that over three-quarters of owner-managed businesses (OMBs) in the UK operating in the shipping and transport sector are confident about their prospects for 2016. The survey revealed that…

Metal Shark tapped to build new NYC Ferries

Jul 08, 2016

Metal Shark was selected by HNY Ferry Fleet, LLC (a Hornblower company), operator of New York City’s Citywide Ferry Service, to build 26-m149-passenger aluminum high-speed ferries. Metal Shark will produce a series of ferries at its Franklin…

Keppel Secures Marine Projects worth S$120 mln

Jul 07, 2016

Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M)'s wholly owned subsidiary Keppel Shipyard Ltd (Keppel Shipyard) has secured four contracts worth a total of about S$120 million from repeat customers. Mr Michael Chia, Managing Director (Marine & Technology) of Keppel O&M…

Neptune Lines Appoints Agent in Arabian Gulf

Jul 06, 2016

Maritime and logistics service provider Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) has been appointed agent for Neptune Lines’ new Arabian Gulf short sea car transportation service in Kuwait, Iraq and Qatar. As agents for Neptune Lines in these three countries…

Qatargas, RWE Ink SPA Deal for LNG Deliveries

Jul 02, 2016

Qatargas, the World’s Premier LNG Company, today announced a flexible Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) with RWE Supply Trading (RWEST), a leading European electricity and gas company. Qatargas will deliver up to 1.1 million tonnes of Liquefied…

Diana Shipping Contract for M/V Oceanis With Nidera

Jul 01, 2016

Diana Shipping Inc.  has announced that, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, it entered into a time charter contract with Nidera S.P.A., Roma, for one of its Panamax dry bulk vessels, the m/v Oceanis.  The gross charter rate is US$5…

Diana Shipping Enters Contract with SwissMarine

Jun 28, 2016

Diana Shipping Inc., through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, has entered into a time charter contract with SwissMarine Services S.A., Geneva, for one of its Ice Class Panamax dry bulk vessels, the m/v Crystalia.  The gross charter rate is US$6…

UAE Top Court: Physical Bunkers Suppliers Have No Right to Recourse against Owners/Charterers

Jun 27, 2016

The OW saga - UAE Federal Supreme Court decides that physical suppliers of bunkers have no right to recourse against Owners/Charterers.In the first decision on the issue from the most senior court in the country, the UAE Federal Supreme…

POSH Bags Shell FLNG Contract

Jun 25, 2016

Singapore’s offshore marine services provider PACC Offshore Services Holdings Ltd. (POSH) has been awarded a contract to support Shell’s Prelude floating liquefied natural gas facility using its semi-submersible accommodation vessel the “POSH Arcadia”…

BIMCO Launches New Standard Agreements for Novation of Shipping Contracts

Jun 24, 2016

BIMCO has published three standard novation agreements that provide a legal framework to change one of the original parties to a contract. Two of the agreements cover time charter parties; one provides for a change of charterer and the other a change of owner…

TEN Sends New Aframax Tanker to Work for Statoil

Jun 23, 2016

Tsakos Energy Navigation Ltd. (NYSE:TNP) has taken delivery of the aframax tanker Elias Tsakos, part of the 15-vessel newbuilding program and the first of the nine assigned for the Statoil long-term business. The vessel was delivered from…

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