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Tankers tap into Brazil’s fledgling crude exports
NYK FPSO will produce enough cargo to fill one aframax a week
Zodiac bins boxship
Zodiac Maritime has continued its demolition activity with the disposal of a laid-up container vessel.
Rickmers ‘looks like a public company’, says Widdows
Listing is an option as company re-orients itself towards the capital markets
Most serious bulk carrier casualty reports go unpublished
UPDATE Costa Concordia: Intercargo urges states to make investigation findings public
Seanergy swings to black
Restis group bulker owner Seanergy Maritime has made it back into profit for the first time since 2011.
Viking Supply Ships set to issue new bond
Denmark-based offshore supply and ice specialist seeks much-needed liquidity
Baltic Exchange posts $2.5m pre-tax profit
But loss-making Baltex trading platform must expand and change
Suspects charged in £5.2M drug seizure
TWO MEN have been charged with trying to smuggle cocaine with street value of £5.2M ($8.1M) through Portsmouth’s ferry port, according to the UK Border Force.
What next?
Rickmers may signal a new direction for German ship finance
Long Beach names its interim boss
Moro steps in as port seeks permanent replacement for Lytle
Union calls for Swanland operators to face corporate manslaughter charges
UK must end flagging out and ban ‘ships of shame’ from its waters, says RMT
Carriers push for Asia-Mediterranean July price increases
Hapag-Lloyd announcement followed by rises from Coscon, MSC, OOCL and Maersk Line
Shortsea carriers face summer lull
THE FREIGHT slump for European shortsea general cargo is expected to get worse, after a dismal first quarter and a brief spike in April, brokers warned today.
Rand falls to a loss
Great Lakes bulker owner Rand Logistics has posted a loss for the year to 31 March as costs increased.
Regional Container Lines agrees intra-Asia tie-up with MOL
Slot-exchange deal supports Thai firm’s drive to forge regional and global alliances
Japan offers Iraq loan
TOKYO has reportedly offered its biggest ever loan to Iraq, which would use the money to rebuild an oil port and construct a gas liquefaction refinery.
Waratah hits 5-month high
NEWCASTLE Port Corp said its weekly coal exports have reached a five-month high, even though workers staged two eight-hour strikes during the period.
Structural failure blamed for six deaths in Swanland sinking
MAIB says overloading and cost-cutting contributed to casualty
Loading sank Swanland
UK accident investigators have repeated a call for urgent action on general cargoship safety after a report revealed a loading error caused the sinking of the Swanland with the loss of six crew.
Arrested ship released
BOX SHIP Vinalines Pioneer has been released since being arrested in Singapore by the local group Allen & Gledhill, Fairplay was told today.
