Royal Caribbean has officially welcomed Legend of the Seas. After nearly two years of construction at the Meyer Turku shipyard in Turku, Finland, the third Icon Class ship is now ready to make its July 2026 European debut.To mark the milestone…
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The ship recycling market was softer over the course of the past week. In its latest weekly report, Best Oasis (www.best-oasis.com), a leading cash buyer of ships said that “the Indian market recorded a modest correction this week; however, this should…
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Over the past four years, tanker markets have been reshaped by geopolitical shocks, with freight volatility increasingly driven by inefficiencies rather than pure cycles. The Russian invasion of Ukraine triggered a major reconfiguration of crude and pr…
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“During April to May, Western Africa’s clean petroleum product (CPP) imports fell 44% year on year, from 1,144 thousand barrels per day (kbpd) to 642 kbpd,” says Niels Rasmussen, Chief Shipping Analyst at BIMCO. The drop in import volumes cut ton…
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the United States will attack Iran if no peace deal is secured and that the U.S. military secretly escorted ships carrying more than 100 million barrels of oil out of the Strait of Hormuz.”We’re going …
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