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Flex LNG Secures USD 629 Mn Loan for Five Newbuilds
Flex LNG has secured a new USD 629 million financing for the five newbuilds scheduled for delivery in 2020.
Yale Study Warns of Dangerous Mental Stress Among Seafarers
20 percent of all seafarers asked had contemplated suicide or self-harm at some point in time.
Oldendorff Carriers Brings In MIT for Ship Design Research
Research areas will include morphing structures, hydrodynamic cloaking, and moving boundary layers.
Gasum to Use Swedegas’ Gothenburg Facility for Bunkering of LNG Ships
Gasum is to use Swedegas’ facility for liquefied gas for bunkering of LNG fueled vessels.
Euroseas Buys Containership Quartet
Greek ship owner and operator Euroseas is to acquire four secondhand 4,253 TEU containerships.
Euronav Buys Suezmax Pair with New Joint Venture Partners
Euronav has entered into a joint venture together with affiliates of Ridgebury Tankers and clients of Tufton Oceanic.
Former Maersk COO Toft Joins MSC as CEO
Toft joins MSC after spending the past 25 years at Maersk.
MSC Enters into Container Services Agreement with Mwani Qatar
From January 2020, MSC will use Hamad Port as a regional hub to manage transshipments.
Sovcomflot’s Profit Soars as Tanker Market Strengthens
Sovcomflot closed Q3 2019 with a significant increase in net profit year over year.
EU Commission Opens Probe into Italian Ports’ Tax Exemptions
The EU wants to check whether Italian laws are in line with EU State aid rules.
Clean Shipping Coalition: IMO Too Slow in Tackling Shipping’s Climate Impact
Faig Abbasov, shipping policy manager at T&E: “Everything is slow at the IMO, except for polluting ships.”
IMO Working Group Moves Forward to Help Reduce GHG Emissions
IMO to create a workstream for the development of lifecycle GHG/carbon intensity guidelines for all fuel types.
Readers’ Picks of the Week (November 11-15, 2019)
Here are some of the last week’s most read news.
German Fintech Launches New Digital Ship Investment Project
Hamburg-based FinTech company Marvest launches a new digital ship investment project.