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Seaspan Announces Senior Management Changes

Nov 10, 2015

Seaspan Corporation announced that Sai Chu, Chief Financial Officer, has informed of his resignation and retirement from Seaspan effective November 6, 2015, after more than 10 years' of service with Seaspan and related entities.Gerry Wang…

Glander Appoints Hawkins as Trader & Team Leader

Nov 10, 2015

Glander International Bunkering, a leading marine fuel, lubricant trading and brokering company welcomes Joshua Hawkins as Bunker/Lubricant Trader and Team Leader for the Geneva office. Joshua Hawkins brings five years industry experience…

Seamen’s Unity Day Celebrated

Nov 10, 2015

The Indian seafarers celebrate 6th November as the Seamen’s Unity Day.  The National Union of Seafarers of India (NUSI) commemorated the occasion as is done annually on the 6th of November, which is also a paid holiday for seafarers working on Indian and foreign flag ships…

Essar is 'Dry Bulk Line of the Year'

Nov 10, 2015

Essar Shipping, one of India’s leading shipping companies, today said that it has won the prestigious Diamond Category Award for “Line of the Year (Dry Bulk)” at the recently held Samundra Manthan Awards 2015. The company was bestowed this…

Shippers call for EU to Stop Over Regulation

Nov 10, 2015

The UK’s £10bn shipping industry has called the push toward closer union in Europe “distracting” and told the European Commission (EC) to stop interfering with the sector’s globally produced regulations. This is the gist of study on the…

Goldenport Sells Supramax

Nov 10, 2015

London-listed Goldenport Holdings has sold a 2009-built bulk carrier to Zenith Shipping LP of Majuro, Marshall Islands. The 2009-built Alpine Trader was sold for a gross cash consideration of $9.3m and delivered to its new owners on November 5…

Overseas Shipholding Profits Up by 31%

Nov 10, 2015

Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. (OSG, a provider of oceangoing energy transportation services, reported results for the quarter ended March 31, 2015.  Adjusted EBITDA was $113.7 million, up 31% from $86.6 million in the same period in 2014…

NYK Conducts Crisis-response Drill on VLCC

Nov 09, 2015

On October 15 as part of the company’s Remember Naka-no-Se Campaign,* NYK conducted a crisis-response drill based on the scenario of a serious accident occurring on an NYK-owned VLCC (very large crude-oil carrier). Cooperation from the Maritime Bureau within Japan’s Ministry of Land…

ST Engineeing Appoints Director

Nov 09, 2015

Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering) today announced the appointment of Mr Lim Ah Doo as an independent non-executive Director of the Company and a Member of the Audit Committee with effect from 10 November 2015.Mr Lim…

Maersk Q3 Profit Falls

Nov 09, 2015

Danish shipping and offshore energy conglomerate, Maersk Group, kept a reduced forecast made two weeks ago for a 2015 underlying profit of $3.4bn, down from the $4.0bn previously expected.   The Danish  shipping giant  said on Friday that…

Nils Andersen, CEO Maersk: “Global Growth Slowing Down”

Nov 09, 2015

Nils Smedegaard Andersen, chief executive officer at A.P. Moeller-Maersk qoted by Bloomberg as saying: 'We believe that global growth is slowing down. Trade is currently significantly weaker than it normally would be under the growth forecasts…

Changes in Asian Refining Bodes Well for Product Tankers: Poten and Partners

Nov 09, 2015

Refining capacity in Asia has been growing rapidly for many years. Not surprisingly, the vast majority of this growth took place in China, which more than doubled its refining capacity over the last 10 years.  The other significant growth engine in Asia has been India…

US Navigation Moves in S.China Sea to Continue

Nov 08, 2015

The United States will conduct freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea again, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in a speech on Saturday, although he gave no timeline for any such actions.Carter's comments, delivered…

Implementation of AIS at Singapore Port

Nov 07, 2015

Currently, all power-driven harbour and pleasure craft are required as a condition of their harbour or pleasure craft licences, to be fitted with either an IMO-compliant AIS Class A/B transponder or a MPA-approved HARTS transponder.To…

Deal Struck for Dual-fuel Containership Conversion

Nov 06, 2015

German shipping company Wessels Reederei has signed a contract with MAN Diesel & Turbo at the Europort exhibition for maritime technology to retrofit the 8L48/60B main engine of its 1,000-teu containership Wes Amelie to dual-fuel operation,…

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July Russian Oil Exports From Western Ports Fall Amidst Black Sea Attacks

Travis Niederhauser Appointed Company President at Phoenix

Travis Niederhauser Appointed Company President at Phoenix

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