More newbuilding orders were reported last week, while deals in the second hand market were fewer. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Banchero Costa commented that “strong number of contracts reported again this week in the newbuilding market, whe…
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Shipping has talked itself into a convenient, yet erroneous, belief: that headline efficiency percentages on paper tell an owner what a clean technology will deliver in the real world. In reality, a single figure quoted out of context, or a fuel saving…
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Over the spring of 2026, we logged 354 reported tanker fixtures across two of the Middle East’s principal crude gateways and set them side by side to compare how each region’s fixing activity behaves: Yanbu on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea c…
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Judges uphold ruling that halted lawsuit over environmental approval
Russia’s navy has conducted military drills in the Baltic Sea, practising unguided missile launches, bombing runs and missile strikes, it said, as major U.S.-NATO exercises also took place in the region, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday.The…
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