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Private equity firm Bridgepoint buys Ponant

The club will no longer write direct business via Bermuda

Environmental awareness is an increasing necessity, but can shipowners have a commercial interest in saving the planet when they are too busy trying to save their businesses?

A capesize caught up in a crash off South Africa has headed a run of large bulkers to the scrap heap in Bangladesh.

Court hearing postponed to September 10

Court hearing postponed to September 10

UAE shipbuilder Abu Dhabi Mar (ADM) could buy insolvent German group P+S Werften's shipyards.

Greece’s Scarlet Shipping says authorities are ‘totally and ultimately responsible’ for sinking

Short-changed creditors and lenders attack ‘unfair and illegal’ proposals

Short-changed creditors and lenders attack ‘unfair and illegal’ proposals

But cash will be available only to ‘good prospects’ sourced through private equity partners

Rubber-stamp parliament approves widely expected appointment

Taiwanese bulker owner U-Ming has posted a lower profit in the first half as operating expenses rose.

Death of Syrian hostage follows two-year ransom stalemate

Retailers threaten to start diverting cargo ‘within the next week’

Helge Mogster’s Dof is $120m to the good after a trip to the bond market.

Battlelines harden as USMX and ILA resume war of public letters

Container traffic will move over from nearby Mina Zayed in next six months

A seafarer has reportedly gone overboard from a Costa cruiseship off Turkey.

Somali pirates have killed a Syrian crewman on the hijacked Orna in a protest over a delayed ransom payment.