The end of December and coming holidays are traditionally the time when we look back at the highlights of the ending year. World Maritime News is kicking off the 2015 retrospective with its Top 5 series, the first of which is the list of our 5 most read interviews of the year. Interview: Insufficien
Finnish engine maker Wärtsilä has signed a contract to provide dual-fuel main engines for a series of 15 inland waterway barges, which will be chartered by Shell Trading Rotterdam (Shell). Under the contract, concluded in December, the barges, being built for Belgium based Plouvier Transport, will f
Still No Sign of MV Thorco Cloud’s Missing Crew The six crew members of the Antigua and Barbuda-flagged freighter Thorco Cloud that went missing after their ship sank in the Singapore Strait in the evening hours of Dece… Read More Dutch Shippers: Container Shipping Alliances Threat to Competition Du
Owner and operator of handysize liquefied gas carriers Navigator Holdings Ltd. entered into a loan agreement with a group of lenders securing USD 290 million to finance purchase of six newbuild gas carriers. The seven-year term loan will be used to finance the purchase of four 35,000 cubic meter eth
The Netherlands-based shipbuilding company Ferus Smit delivered its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) powered cement tanker MV Greenland to JT Cement on December 23. Prior to the delivery, the vessel underwent an extensive program of trials and tests to examine all the components, so as to make sure
Greece’s Angelicoussis Group of Companies has penned a deal with Qatar’s shipyard Nakilat-Keppel Offshore & Marine (N-KOM) on continuation of ship repair activities for the company’s fleet of over 110 vessels. Under the deal, N-KOM will continue to be the preferred shipyard to conduct repairs on the
Greek gas carrier owner Paradise Gas Carriers has ordered two fully-pressurized gas carriers featuring 7,500 cbm in capacity. The order has been placed with Japanese shipbuilder Kyokuyo Shipyard, according to the company’s Chief Executive Constantine Tsakiris. The gas carriers are scheduled to be de
Russia’s Sovcomflot Group and Sberbank CIB have signed a 14-year USD 340 million credit facility agreement to finance the construction of three Arctic shuttle tankers for the Novy Port project, operated by Gazprom Neft. Novy Port is one of the largest oil and gas condensate deposits on the Yamal pen
Indian Cochin shipyard and French containment systems specialist Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT) have signed an agreement that will enable the yard to construct India’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers. In a deal signed on Monday, Cochin received a license by GTT for the construction of LNG carri
The departure of the new Scandlines ferry M/V Berlin, which will be inserted on the ferry route between Rostock, Germany and Gedser, Denmark, from Danish yard Fayard has been delayed. According to Scandlines, works on the completion of the ferry are underway, however, the delay is partly due to a da
Oslo-listed Ocean Yield ASA has agreed to certain amendments to the charter agreements with Höegh Autoliners (Höegh) for four PCTC vessels on long term charter. Ocean Yield currently has two newbuilding PCTC vessels of 8,500 CEU capacity under construction at Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry Co. Ltd. Th
International dry bulk shipowners seem only to scrap ships aged eighteen years or older, while some Chinese owners have scrapped ships that were even younger than that, according to the Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO). Nineteen ships out of 28 ships built in 1998 to 1999 and demoli
Dolphin Resorts to Bankruptcy Norwegian Dolphin Group ASA together with its subsidiary Dolphin Geophysical AS will today file a petition for bankruptcy with their relevant courts having succumbed to d… Read More Six Missing After Collision in Singapore Strait Six crew members are missing after a Cay
Shell Trading Rotterdam BV (Shell) has signed a charter agreement with Plouvier Transport and Intertrans Tankschiffahrt for fifteen new dual-fuel barges, running mainly on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). The new barges are being built by the Dutch shipyard VEKA Shipbuilding BV and will be used for expa
