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Hyundai Heavy to Raise $1.2B Via Rights Offering

Dec 26, 2017

South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI)  plans to raise about 1.29 trillion won ($1.2 billion) in an initial public offering (IPO)  and list its refining subsidiary Hyundai Oilbank. The report quoted the world’s second-biggest shipbuilder stating that Hyundai Robotics…

Japan’s KHI Moves Merchant Ship Construction to China

Dec 25, 2017

Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) diverts more shipbuilding work to its joint-venture yards in China, local media says. According to a report in Nikkei, KHI will step up commercial shipbuilding in China and scale down production in…

Keppel O&M to Pay US$422m to Resolve Petrobras Issue

Dec 24, 2017

Keppel Corporation Limited (Keppel Corporation or Keppel) today confirmed that KOM has reached a global resolution with criminal authorities in the United States, Brazil and Singapore in relation to corrupt payments made by KOM's former agent in Brazil…

HSH Nordbank to Exit First Ship Lease

Dec 24, 2017

HSH Nordbank AG's  subsidiary Godan GmbH, the controlling unitholder of First Ship Lease Trust (FSL Trust), is looking to divest all its shares in FSL Holdings, the sponsor of the trust, reported Business Times. The report quoted FSL Trust…

San Francisco Bar Pilots Collect Toys for Kids

Dec 22, 2017

The holiday season is filled with countless traditions, and the San Francisco Fire Department toy drive is perhaps one of the most-loved among them. As a contributor to the effort, the San Francisco Bar Pilots held their annual toy drive at their Pier 9 offices last week…

Alabama, APM Invest in Port of Mobile

Dec 21, 2017

The Alabama State Port Authority (ASPA) and APM Terminals boards of directors in separate actions have approved a $49.5 million expansion of the container facility at the Port of Mobile.  The Port Authority and APM Terminals jointly will…

Tallinn Port Annouces Discounts for LNG Ships

Dec 20, 2017

Starting in 2018, all ships that use liquefied natural gas (LNG) as their primary fuel can apply for a discount of four percent on tonnage fees when calling at harbours of the Port of Tallinn.  The goal of the discount is to contribute…

China, Australia Ports Clogged as Coal, Ore Demand Soars

Dec 20, 2017

Around 300 ships caught in jam that would stretch 40 miles; freight rates for biggest coal, ore carrier hit 3-yr high. More than 300 large dry cargo ships are having to wait outside Chinese and Australian ports in a maritime traffic jam…

Saudi-led Coalition: Air Strikes Keep Port Open

Dec 20, 2017

More than 10,000 people killed in Yemeni conflict. The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Wednesday it would keep Yemen's Houthi-controlled Hodeidah port open for a month, despite a fresh missile attack at Riyadh, but it kept up air strikes that killed at least nine people…

Hoping to Extend Maritime Reach, China Lavishes Aid to Pakistan

Dec 19, 2017

China is lavishing vast amounts of aid on a small Pakistani fishing town to win over locals and build a commercial deep-water port that the United States and India suspect may also one day serve the Chinese navy. Beijing has built a school…

Shipping Confidence Rises to 3.5 Year High -Survey

Dec 19, 2017

Shipping confidence held steady at its highest rating in the past three-and-a-half years in the three months to end-November 2017, according to the latest Shipping Confidence Survey from international accountant and shipping adviser Moore Stephens…

Sanjeev Gupta to Buy US-based Steel Assets in 2018

Dec 18, 2017

British industrialist Sanjeev Gupta is in talks to purchase and build more U.S.-based steel and industrial assets next year, after buying ArcelorMittal's Georgetown Steelworks at the weekend.Gupta, executive chairman of GFG Alliance which is a $10 billion metals…

Frontline CEO: Scrapping to Lift 2018 Tanker Rates

Dec 18, 2017

Oil tanker firm Frontline expects shipping firms to scrap more old vessels in the time ahead, which may lead to a recovery in rates for the remaining global fleet in the second half of 2018, its chief executive told Reuters on Monday.Spot rates for very large crude carriers (VLCCs)…

SSY Acquires Bidsted & Co

Dec 17, 2017

British-based ship broker Simpson Spence Young (SSY) has acquired Danish dry bulk broker Bidsted & Co. Bidsted & Co, which was founded in 1940, is one of the last few remaining independent shipbrokers in Copenhagen. Bidsted’s chartering…

SC Ports Handles Container Volume Growth

Dec 17, 2017

South Carolina Ports Authority’s 2018 fiscal year container volume through November grew 2.5 percent compared to last year, with 886,414 twenty-foot equivalent container units (TEUs) handled by the Port of Charleston since July. The Port moved 163…

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