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Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) chief Junichiro Ikeda said in his New Year message the company must pledge to never allow another accident like the Wakashio.

While 2020 was a year of great challenges and changes for the shipping industry, one thing remained unchanged - Greek shipowners were the leading players in the secondhand ship market.

Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) has delivered Singapore’s first LNG bunker tanker to LNG bunker supplier FueLNG, a joint venture between Keppel O&M and Shell Eastern Petroleum.

Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding and Jiangnan Shipyard, the two subsidiaries of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), have inked shipbuilding contracts with Bank of Communications Financial Leasing for the construction of four mega...

The painstaking work to discharge containers from storm damaged ONE Apus are set continue on Tuesday at the Port of Kobe after a break over the Japanese New Year holiday.

Yangzijiang Shipbuilding has secured orders worth $350m for two ultra-large 24,000-teu containerships and two 690-feu deck carriers.

The Philippines has suspended crew change for vessels coming from 20 countries until 15 January 2021 in bid to stop the new strain of Covid-19 from entering the country.

Singapore is tightening the testing regime for all shore-based personnel going onboard ships, following two recent cases of Covid-19 infection on a marine surveyor and a harbour pilot.

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Hapag-Lloyd has placed a $1bn order for six, LNG dual-fuel, 23,500 teu containerships at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME).