China’s retaliatory tariffs on some American goods came into effect on Monday, while Donald Trump, the American president, vowed yesterday to impose a 25% tariff on all steel and aluminium ...

Authorities in Russia’s Far East scrambled over the weekend to prevent an environmental catastrophe as a Chinese bulk carrier grounded off the southwest coast of Sakhalin Island. The 2010-built ...

Denmark’s Navigare Capital Partners has moved to add more containerships to its portfolio through a deal for up to six newbuildings in China. The Copenhagen-based alternative investment fund ...

Norway’s Boa has signed a contract with Dalian Shipbuilding Offshore Co, for the construction of up to two semi-submersible heavy lift barges. The in-house-designed Boabarge 39, first introduced ...

South Korean owner H-Line Shipping has ordered an LNG bunkering vessel at domestic yard HJ Shipbuilding & Construction (HJSC). The contract covers an 18,000 cu m unit costing about KRW127bn ($87 ...

German asset and investment manager MPC Capital has bought into Norwegian maritime group Wilhelmsen’s performance management firm BestShip. The Castor Maritime majority-owned Frankfurt-listed ...

Michael Chandris and Andonis Lemos were re-elected vice presidents. Earlier in December, Gaby Bornheim was re-elected president of the German Shipowners’ Association (VDR). The managing director ...

A series of explosions yesterday in the engine room of a 22-year-old suezmax at the Russian Baltic port of Ust-Luga has put neighbour Finland on alert. The Turkish-owned Koala tanker, laden with ...

Following a series of casualties off its coast, South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the Marine Pollution (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Amendment Bill into law ...

Hong Kong-listed Seacon Shipping is selling another bareboat chartered modern chemical and oil products carrier to UK bulker and tanker player Union Maritime. The Qingdao-based owner and operator ...

The client and financial details of the new contracts that take TGS’ 4D streamer summer backlog to six have not been disclosed. In mid-January, the company secured four 4D streamer contracts ...

The CTV will be manned by a French crew and will be operated under the French flag, LDA said. The EMYN offshore wind farm will have a total installed capacity of 488 MW, generating 1,900 GWh per ...