China’s Zhejiang Zheshang Financial Leasing has contracted two ultramax bulk carrier newbuilds at compatriot yard Jiangsu Soho Chuangke Shipbuilding. The… ...

Last year, Peter Döhle, which claims control of more than 300 tramp-owned containerships, ordered four newbuilds at CSSC-affiliated Hudong-Zhonghua after a break of nearly nine years. Those ships ...

Norwegian offshore vessel player Rem Offshore has secured a PSV contract from Eni in the UK North Sea. The company’s 2011-built Rem Supplier has been fixed for around 300 days, according to ...

The chief executive of Germany’s Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM), Sebastian von Hardenberg, has been elected as the new president of InterManager. He takes over from Columbia ...

Two European tanker brokers have joined forces with news Odin-RVB from The Netherlands is taking over Barcelona-based Iberica Tanker Chartering. “As the shipping landscape continues to evolve ...

The relationship between shipowners and technology providers must be fixed to save shipping’s decarbonisation ambitions, writes Benny Hilström, vice president of business development at WinGD.

Starting out with the Informa Group in 2000 in Hong Kong, Sam Chambers became editor of Maritime Asia magazine as well as East Asia Editor for the world’s oldest newspaper, Lloyd’s List. In ...

The 63,500 dwt unit, which has been on a long-term charter to Denmark’s Norden, went for $3.3m less compared to the 2020 Tsuneishi-built ultramax Erin Manx back in November, Genoa-based ...

A well-known name in Norwegian shipping circles, Robert Hvide Macleod, has invested in shipping emissions analytics company Siglar Carbon. “His impressive track record as a partner at Glencore ...

A Chinese chief engineer, Fei Wang, 38, has been sentenced in the US to three months in prison and three years of supervised release over an oily bilge water release last year. Wang was working on ...

Hong Kong-registered outfit Young Honest Shipping emerged as the taker of the first vintage VLCC sold this year. Young Honest bought the 20-year-old, 308,800 dwt, scrubber-fitted Rolin from Viet ...

One family has propelled a landlocked European nation into the top shipowning countries in the world. Gianluigi Aponte’s Geneva-based Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) has been on a historic fleet ...