Day: January 29, 2025

U-Ming books ultramax newbuild brace in Japan

Energy News Beat Oshima Shipbuilding Taiwanese dry bulk shipping operator U-Ming Marine Transport is expanding its fleet a brace of ultramax newbuilds in Japan. The subsidiary of the Far Eastern Group has signed up for 64,100 dwt vessels at Oshima Shipbuilding with delivery expected in April and June 2028. No price has been revealed. U-Ming […]

Seanergy expands with double buy as United ships out oldest cape

Energy News Beat Dry CargoEurope US-listed Greek bulker owner Seanergy Maritime has strengthened its fleet by adding two Japanese-built vessels, while its spin-off United Maritime is shipping out its oldest capesize. The Stamatis Tsantanis-led Seanergy has picked up an unnamed 2013 Imabari-built newcastlemax and a 2011 Mitsui-built capesize for about $69m. The 178,459 dwt capsize, […]

Geneva Dry Dialogues: Western Bulk

Energy News Beat Returning to Geneva Dry this April is Torbjorn Gjervik, who since last year’s summit has been promoted to CEO of Western Bulk Chartering, a Norwegian firm which tends to have anywhere between 100 and 150 ships on its books at any given time. While looking forward to the event, Gjervik is not […]

Robbers attack tanker in Singapore Strait

Energy News Beat A Greece-flagged tanker was boarded yesterday by two knife-wielding individuals while transiting eastbound in the Singapore Strait, the latest in a string of robbery incidents in the area. The attack took place approximately 2.7 nautical miles northwest of Indonesia’s Pemping Island, according to UK maritime security specialists Ambrey. The tanker was sailing […]

Crew rescued from blaze on boxship in Red Sea

Energy News Beat MarineTraffic / Bjorn S Bjornesjo The crew of the boxship that abandoned the ship which caught fire in the Red Sea has been rescued unharmed. The Hong Kong-flagged boxship ASL Bauhinia exploded and caught fire some 226 km northwest of Hodeidah, Yemen, in the early hours of the morning on Tuesday. The […]

Shipping’s ultimate Year of the Snake fortune guide published today

Energy News Beat The January issue of Splash Extragives readers the ultimate guide to shipping prospects in the Year of the Snake.  The Lunar New Year is not starting too well with many sectors struggling to break even in January.  The cross-sector ClarkSea Index, a weighted barometer covering all shipping segments, eased back by 8% […]

2025 will see fewer but better hires in commercial shipping

Energy News Beat ContributionsOperations Paul Ratcliffe provides readers with highlights from Ignition Global’s 2024 Commercial Shipping Leaders Survey. Hiring in commercial shipping should be getting easier. The talent war of 2021–22 has ended, and dry bulk bonuses are cooling. Inflation has eased, remuneration policies have adjusted, and salary expectations have mellowed—making compensation easier to manage. […]

Trump’s Energy Vision

Energy News Beat Daily Standup Top Stories How a Chinese AI Startup Just Shook the Tech Market Amid Security Concerns January 28, 2025 Clark Savage January 27, 2025 – The tech landscape was rocked today as shares of several major U.S. tech companies plummeted due to the introduction of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup whose chatbot rivals […]

Analyst Abstract

Energy News Beat Tankers The global crude tanker fleet is getting older and older. You’d have to go all the way back to the year 1988 to find the time when there were fewer crude tanker newbuild deliveries than last year. In 2024, new crude oil tanker deliveries dropped to a 36-year low as only […]

Containers: Snakes and ladders

Energy News Beat The container shipping freight market has felt like a game of snakes and ladders since the pandemic. Shippers negotiate the trade board, hoping to make steady progress. Sometimes the rates they pay climb exponentially up a ladder for a while, for instance when the pandemic and the Red Sea crisis caused elevated […]