Scrubber-fitted VLCCs have cleaned up with huge profit advantage over the last five years, broker Gibson says
London shop examines the costs of a ‘deluge’ of environmental regulations
September 2025
Sanctioned dark fleet owner finally pays up after seafarer’s death on Russian tanker
Financial wrangling linked to the blacklisted tanker is just the latest case of crew payment problems with shadow fleet vessels
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Purus revealed as owner behind order of up to four energy construction ships in China
Brokers name expanding Singapore company as contractor of Salt-designed units
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Bourbon to Deliver Next-Gen Crewboats for ExxonMobil Offshore Angola
French offshore services provider Bourbon has signed a five-year charter contract with ExxonMobil to supply new 34-meter crewboats for oil and gas personnel transfers offshore Angola.The vessels will operate between Soyo and Block 15, about 80 miles of…
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Russia’s LNG shadow ships set to take long way round Northern Sea Route ice
Sanctioned shipment heads west while another non-ice class vessel appears to turn tail in Arctic passage
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