Kuang Ming Shipping, the dry bulk subsidiary of Taiwan’s Yang Ming Marine Transport, is returning to the newbuilding market with plans approved to order four vessels. The newbuilds, sized between ...

Punit Oza on the business sector’s impossible tightrope. “When governments pull the trigger, companies take the bullet,” he writes. In the escalating trade conflict between the United States, China, ...

IOG Wind, formerly known as CWind Taiwan, has announced that it has secured a multi-year operations and maintenance deal on the Hai Long offshore wind project. This is the company’s second long-term ...

Greece’s Navios Maritime Partners has sold three older vessels — including one of its oldest VLCCs — as part of its fleet renewal programme, while adding a newly built product tanker and fixing ...

British class society Lloyd’s Register (LR) has published new guidance on the use of nuclear energy in commercial shipping, offering what it calls the first comprehensive roadmap for the safe and ...

Greek owner Diana Shipping has secured a strong fixture with SwissMarine for one of its capesize bulkers, locking in a daily rate well above its previous employment. The 2015-built, 180,960 dwt New ...

Italian energy services major Saipem has been awarded three new offshore contracts for the Shah Deniz Compression project operated by supermajor BP in Azerbaijan. The contracts were secured in ...

The dollar’s wobble exposes shipping’s one-currency weakness, writes Andrew Craig-Bennett. As we all know, to generate a really big shipping crash, you must start with a banking crash. If the banks ...