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Australia Bans Third Ship This Year for Labor Violations
For the third time in a year, Australian officials have banned a ship from operating in their waters and visiting...
Liberian Registry Becomes World Largest Tanker Flag
The Liberian Registry is now the world’s largest tanker flag. With the recent addition of 2.7 Million GT of new...
Greek Parliament Hands Extra Stake In Port Of Piraeus To China Cosco
Greece's parliament has approved a new contract that allows Chinese state-owned shipping giant Cosco to buy an additional 16 percent...
India’s Adani Plans to Compete With China at Sri Lankan Port
In a move that is seen as an attempt to counter China’s growing influence in the Pacific and especially in...
Seaspan Orders Ten Newbuild Containerships
Atlas Corporation subsidiary Seaspan has signed an agreement with an undisclosed shipyard for ten 7,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) modern...
Hapag-Lloyd Takes Stake In Wilhelmshaven Terminal
Hapag-Lloyd is to take a 30% stake in Eurogate’s Container Terminal Wilhelmshaven at Germany’s JadeWeserPort following APM Terminals’ decision to...
COSCO Shipping Unit Takes Minority Stake in Favored Hamburg Container Terminal
The port operations arm of COSCO Shipping will buy a minority stake in Port of Hamburg’s Container Terminal Tollerort (CTT),...
Liberian Registry And DNV Award Aip To HHI For 40,000 CBM Liquefied CO2 Carrier Design
The Liberian International Ship & Corporate Registry (LISCR), and Classification Society DNV, have awarded an Approval in Principle (AiP) to...
US And China Compete To Rebuild Sudan’s State Shipping Firm
Sudan’s state shipping company is considering a Chinese offer to revamp a fleet that’s shrunk to just one boat as...
Design Approved For World’s Largest VLGCs
Classification society Bureau Veritas has issued design approval for what will be “the world’s largest” very large gas carriers (VLGCs)....
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