Lack of tugboats blamed for San Lorenzo port allisions
Tugs should be ‘mandatory,’ officials say.
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High-speed Catamaran Delivered to VS Grand Ferries
Austal Limited has delivered a 30-meter high-speed aluminum catamaran for VS Grand Ferries of the Philippines. The vessel was designed by Incat Crowther and built at Austal’s shipyard in Balamban, Cebu.The new vessel, named MV Seacat, provides capacity…
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Demolition Activity Returns to Growth Mode
Ship owners have gone back to the scrapyards over the past couple of weeks, selling more overaged tonnage, in a bid to compensate for the newbuildings entering the global fleet in an already overburdened market. In its latest weekly report, Clarkson Pl…
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China-owned fleet becomes world’s second largest
A remarkable maritime event occurred recently. China became the world’s second-largest shipowning country, overtaking Japan. The top shipowner, Greece, is still much larger but the gap is closing as China’s fleet expansion continues at a rapid rate. Nu…
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Shipping Is Increasingly Caught In The Trade War Line Of Crossfire
Once again, the already long list of tariffed goods has been made even longer. Many more commodities were hit on 23 August, but September is likely to dwarf it all, as the US has proposed slamming tariffs on goods worth USD 200 billion. The tariffed go…
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