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BW Offshore signs head of agreement with Equinor for Bay du Nord FPSO

BW Offshore has signed a Head of Agreement (HoA) with Equinor Canada Ltd, confirming its selection as preferred bidder for the Floating Production, Storage...

Fugro secures two contracts to support Brazil’s offshore energy expansion

Fugro has signed two three-year contracts with offshore energy services company Constellation to support responsible deepwater exploration activities in two of Brazil’s most strategically...

Carlyle to acquire Altera Infrastructure Group’s FPSO business

Global investment firm Carlyle announced that it has agreed to acquire a diversified FPSO (Floating Production, Storage and Offloading) business from Altera Infrastructure Group,...

BW LPG Limited announces sale of BW Lord

BW LPG Limited announced that its 52%-owned subsidiary, BW LPG India, has entered into an agreement to sell the 2008-built BW Lord for continued...

Samudera Shipping acquires container vessel for $64.9m

The vessel has a total capacity of 2,684 twenty-foot equivalent units. Samudera Shipping Line Limited has entered into a memorandum of agreement to acquire a...

Baltic index hits over one-week low on weaker demand across vessel segments

The Baltic Exchange’s dry bulk sea freight index, which monitors rates for vessels moving dry bulk commodities, fell to an over one-week low on...

The “boats of legality”: How the Lega Navale Italiana brings back to new life sailing yachts seized from migrant smugglers and drug traffickers

Tassos Mavris Journalist • Columnist Member: AJE & Community Radio and Italian Television  Over the past 15 years, numerous sailing boats have been intercepted off the Italian coast...

The Caravel Group and Celsius Tankers Partner to Co-Own and Operate Green Fleets of the Future

The Caravel Group and Celsius Tankers announce the formation of a strategic joint venture to co-own and operate a new fleet of high-specification LNG...

Shipping market shows mixed signals

Although global shipping is facing unstable fundamentals and geopolitical shocks, the freight market picture is multidimensional. From the stability in LNG and LPG carriers,...

Japan Engine: The world’s first complete commercial ammonia fueled engine has been accomplished

Japan Engine Corporation (J-ENG) accomplished the first fully-functional full-scale commercial engine 7UEC50LSJA-HPSCR (50 cm bore, 7 cylinders, with High Press. SCR) on August 30,...

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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...

Hunter Group ASA appoints Erik M Mathiesen as permanent CEO

Hunter Group ASA announced that the Board of Directors has appointed Erik M Mathiesen...

Russia says it struck vessels in Ukraine

The Russian defense ministry said on Sunday its forces had carried out overnight drone...

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...

Thessaloniki Port Authority: Revenue up 8.9% to €58m in H1 ’26

Thessaloniki Port Authority S.A. (ThPA S.A.), a member of the Core Network of the Trans-European Transport Network and a port of international significance, announced...

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...