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Capital Product Partners Tankers get Contracts

Jun 16, 2015

Capital Product Partners (CPP) has taken delivery of a new panamax containership, which will commence a five-year timecharter to CMA CGM. It also has won a timecharter from Cargill, and another two have had their charters to Capital Maritime extended…

Genco Shipping Baltic Trading Merger - Voting Next Month

Jun 16, 2015

Genco Shipping & Trading Limited and Baltic Trading Limited have declared July 17 the date for an annual meeting of the two companies, where shareholders will vote on their proposed merger. Genco will acquire NYSE-listed Baltic Trading in a stock-for-stock transaction…

Dorian LPG took Delivery of the Cougar

Jun 16, 2015

US-headquartered owner and operator of modern Very Large Gas Carriers (VLGC) Dorian LPG   took delivery of the ECO VLGC Cougar from Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries.  Cougar, Dorian LPG's fourth newbuilding delivery, will initially trade in the spot market through the Helios Pool…

Ship Finance Buys Three Boxships

Jun 16, 2015

Ship Finance International Limited has acquired three 9,000 teu capacity container ships that are under construction from an unrelated third party. The Fredriksen-led company said that the three vessels are currently being constructed to a fuel-efficient design at an undisclosed yard…

Inmarsat, KVH Industries Sign Reciprocal Distribution Agreement

Jun 15, 2015

Inmarsat and KVH Industries, Inc., today announced the signing of a reciprocal distribution agreement with immediate effect. Under the agreement, KVH becomes a non-exclusive, global distributor of Inmarsat’s Fleet One and FleetBroadband services…

UAE Cargo Handler Tests Florida Waters

Jun 15, 2015

Sharjah-based ports operator Gulftainer has opened Canaveral Cargo Terminal at Port Canaveral in Florida in the US for business. Gulftainer, a subsidiary of UAE-based conglomerate Crescent Enterprises, said the opening comes one year after…

Cleveland wants to be Midwest Hub for Shipping to Europe

Jun 15, 2015

Because of demand, the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority (CCPA) is doubling the frequency of its service between Port of Cleveland and the Port of Antwerp this year. (The ship makes one stop, near Montreal.)  A report in AP says…

Egypt to Open New Suez Canal on Aug. 6

Jun 14, 2015

Egypt's new Suez Canal is expected to open in early August in a project President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi sees as a potent symbol of national pride and to boost the country's battered economy, according to a report in Reuters. The president ordered the new waterway to be dug in a single year…

Port of Grangemouth Expands Container Capacity

Jun 14, 2015

The Port of Grangemouth is the largest container terminal in Scotland and the port’s owner, Forth Ports Limited, has announced that it’s going to get even bigger.  Forth Ports will invest GBP £1.5 million investment at Grangemouth in surface upgrading works on an area of about 6…

GPHA Gets $1.5 bln for Tema Port Expansion

Jun 14, 2015

The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) has received 1.5 billion dollars for the expansion of the Tema Port. The authority today signed a 35-year Concessionary Agreement with the Meridian Port Services (MPS) to boost expansion activities at the port…

Peel Ports, JNPT in Historic Partnership

Jun 13, 2015

At a formal event presided by ShriNitinGadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport,Highways and Shipping in the presence of ShriAnil Desai, Member of RajyaSabhainMumbai, India’s No.1 Container Terminal Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust,  have today…

Egypt Receives LNG Shipment from Australia

Jun 13, 2015

Egypt received a cargo of liquefied natural gas from Australia after the exporter sent two shipments to the region in the past two years, signaling increasing demand, reports The Daily Star. The Woodside Rogers tanker arrived at Egypt's…

New Suez Canal Almost 84 Pct Complete

Jun 13, 2015

Over 216 million cubic meters of water-saturated sand have been removed so far as part of the Suez Canal Development Project, said Head of the Suez Canal Authority Mohab Mamish. This represents about 84 percent of the total cubic meters that should be dredged as part of the project…

Jerry Kalogiratos New CEO for Capital Product Partners

Jun 13, 2015

Gerasimos (Jerry) Kalogiratos, the Partnership's current Chief Operating Officer and a director of the Partnership, will be appointed as the CEO and CFO effective June 30. Capital Product Partners has announced that Petros Christodoulou…

Norway’s DSD Shipping in Second US Indictment

Jun 13, 2015

Norwegian firm Det Stavangerske Dampskibsselskab AS (DSD Shipping), and four of its employees, are now under three-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Lafayette, LA, all relating to alleged environmental crimes and their cover ups…

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