Energy News Beat ContributionsDry Cargo Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Willem Vermaat, shipping director at Heidelberg Materials Trading, shares his perspective on the state of dry bulk. Shipping is a small world. How often do we hear this when walking around at a shipping conference and running into old acquaintances? As the years go by, the […]
Energy News Beat OperationsRegulatory ABS ABS The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has formally agreed to start the revision of outdated regulations for nuclear-powered ships. The 110th session of the IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee heard proposals from several member states and NGOs calling for a revision of the Code of Safety for Nuclear Merchant Ships (Resolution […]
Energy News Beat Dry CargoGreater China Hong Kong conglomerate Caravel Group has sold two of its Chinese-built kamsarmax bulk carriers in a deal valued at about $41m. The Banga family’s dry bulk owner has let go of the 81,073 dwt Explorer Oceania and the 81,093 dwt Explorer Asia, with both ships built at Jiangsu Hantong […]
Energy News Beat AmericasTankers Maritime Partners Maritime Partners In a consolidation move within the US Jones Act market, Maritime Partners has inked a deal to acquire Centerline Logistics, one of the country’s top coastal tanker and marine services providers. The agreement will see an entity managed by Maritime Partners take over Centerline from its current […]
Energy News Beat Discharges from open-loop scrubbers will be banned in internal waters and port areas throughout the northeast Atlantic by July 2027, following a meeting of environment ministers from 15 European countries yesterday. A closed-loop discharge ban has been scheduled for no later than January 2029. While a majority of European states wanted to […]
Energy News Beat Consolidation – and by extension greater focus and economies of scale – continues in the revived Japanese shipbuilding sector with news that Imabari Shipbuilding, the nation’s top yard, is to take control of Japan Marine United (JMU). The Higaki family-controlled Imabari announced yesterday it will up its stake in JMU from 30% […]
Energy News Beat US Navy Starting today, Splash will be bringing readers a weekly wrap to digest the important shipping news of the past few days. This complements Daily Splash, our free newsletter published Monday through Friday, as well as Splash Extra, our monthly digest. Conflict with Iran dominated the headlines in the earlier part […]
