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COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry delivers third LR2 to Pantheon Tankers

Yangzhou COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry successfully delivered the 114,000 dwt tanker Sea Orca (Hull No. N1172), built for Pantheon Tankers, owned by Anna Angelicoussis. Sea...

Vitol to load first diluent cargo under Venezuela supply deal

Commodities trader Vitol is expected to load the first cargo of naphtha from the U.S. to Venezuela this weekend under a new supply agreement...

Safe Caledonia contract further extended

Ithaca Energy (UK) Limited (‘Ithaca’) has exercised all three remaining weeks of options for the Safe Caledonia to continue providing accommodation support at the...

Hanseatic Global Terminals and GEN reach an agreement in ownership of FIT

Hanseatic Global Terminals and Grupo Empresas Navieras (GEN), via its affiliate Agunsa Universales S.A., have reached an agreement regarding the capital structure of Florida...

GTT receives order from Samsung Heavy Industries for the design of two new LNG Carrier Tanks

GTT has announced it has received an order from shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries for the design of the tanks of two new LNG carriers...

Beihai Shipbuilding Wins Contract for Two Bulkers

Beihai Shipbuilding has signed a contract with Seacon Shipping Group for the construction of two 210,000 DWT newcastlemax bulk carriers. The two vessels will be...

Icon Energy Corp. announces reverse stock split

Icon Energy Corp., an international shipping company providing worldwide seaborne transportation services for dry bulk cargoes via its fleet of oceangoing vessels, announced today...

Mercuria redoubles metals push with $1.2 billion Kazakh deal

Mercuria Energy Group Ltd. is lending $1.2 billion to help fund the buyout of major Kazakh copper producer Kazakhmys, the latest in a breakneck...

CMB.TECH sells eight vessels

CMB.TECH NV has sold eight vessels, generating a capital gain of approximately 269.2 million USD in total. Euronav CMB.TECH has sold six VLCCs: Daishan (2007, 306,005...

Solstad Offshore ASA – Contract extension and amendment for Normand Turquesa

Reference is made to the previous press release dated 9 July 2025 regarding the four-year contract for the Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) Normand...

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Hafnia Limited: Acquisition of an additional 1.7 million TORM shares

Hafnia Limited has agreed to acquire 1,700,000 A shares in TORM plc at a price per share of USD 34.00, representing 1.66% of the...

2020 Bulkers – Contemplated private placement

Reference is made to the stock exchange announcement made by 2020 Bulkers Ltd on 16 September 2026, where the Company announced a letter of...

MSC said in talks to buy German state-held Meyer Werft stake

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co. is in talks to acquire the roughly 80% stake in German cruise-ship builder Meyer Werft GmbH held by the federal...

Greek shipping industry turns to Euronext Athens

The Greek shipping community is turning its attention to Euronext Athens. Safe Bulkers, owned by Polys V. Hajioannou, made the first move. The company pursued...

TOP Ships announces net income of $6.5 million, diluted earnings per share of $0.61 and stockholders’ equity of $76.7 million for the six months...

TOP Ships Inc., an international owner and operator of modern, fuel-efficient “ECO” tanker vessels, announced its financial results for the six months ended June...

At UN, 80 countries demand reopening of Hormuz, condemn Iran, Houthi attacks

Some 80 countries demanded the urgent reopening of ​the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday...

V.Group names new CEO

V.Group has appointed Shubpreet Singh as chief executive of V.Ships. Singh succeeds Robert Desai,...

Shipping magnate worth $13.5 billion rides AI boom with Nvidia

Maria Angelicoussis, the magnate behind Greece’s biggest shipping fortune, has scored big gains outside...

PIL announces planned leadership succession: Wan Chee Foong appointed Deputy CEO, to succeed Lars...

The Board of Directors of Pacific International Lines (PIL) announced the appointment of Mr...

ABS and lomarlabs team up to accelerate early-stage, innovative solutions for global shipping

ABS and lomarlabs have signed a Master Research Collaboration Agreement (MRCA) to explore innovative...

Piraeus Chamber of Commerce: More value created by shipping to flow into the city’s economy

Piraeus is not only home to Greece’s largest port, but also the historic heart of Greek shipping and one of the world’s major maritime...

Piraeus container traffic soars 18% in August

Container throughput at the port of Piraeus remained strong in August, with a significant improvement recorded at Terminals II and III as the global...

Port of Los Angeles posts best three-month cargo stretch in its history

Port of Los Angeles waterfront workers processed  955,907 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) in August, capping the busiest three consecutive months in Port history. More...

ATI and DP World commission six new hybrid cranes at manila South Harbour

Strategic partners DP World and Asian Terminals Inc. (ATI) have commissioned six state-of-the-art hybrid Rubber-Tyred Gantry (RTG) cranes at Manila South Harbour (MSH), strengthening...

PCT S.A.: New customs licence for cargo arriving by rail

A step towards enhancing the operational efficiency of the Piraeus Container Terminal is the granting of an Authorised Consignee licence to PCT S.A. by...