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Jiangsu Yangzi-Mitsui Shipbuilding, a joint venture shipyard between Yangzijiang Shipbuilding and Japan’s Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding, has signed a contract with Meghna group to build four 66,000 dwt bulk carriers.

The recycling market has begun 2021 in strong form, with rising demand for steel pushing up prices and recycling yards keen to procure more tonnage.

Wan Hai Lines is to launch a new express weekly service between East mainland China -Taiwan and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on 12 January.

Infographic from Information Fusion Centre (IFC) summarising sea robberies, tefts and attempted incidents in the Singapore Strait during 2020

The Great Eastern Shipping bulk carrier Jag Anand and its 23 Indian crew are finally be allowed to leave the Chinese port of Jingtang where they have been stranded with a cargo of Australian coal since June last year. However, while the Jag Anand...

Spot market activity in tanker shipping was down 16% year-on-year in 2020 due to the impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, according to analyst Poten & Partners.

Chinese shipbuilder Wuhu Shipyard signed asphalt/oil tanker vessel contract with the European shipowner Continental Bitumen.

The livestock carrier Barkly Pearl has been barred from Australian waters for two years after it was found sailing in the country’s waters with a hole in its hull.

Port Hedland in Western Australia welcomed its first LNG fuelled bulker this week in the shape of the capesize HL Green.

The shipbuilding orderbook has dropped to its lowest level in terms of ratio to the existing fleet in 31 years, according to Clarksons Research.