After completion of the capital dredging of the Karnaphuli River, the shipping cost has come down as 10-metre draft vessels can now berth at the Chittagong port.FE Earlier, lighter ships used to transport goods to and from larger vessels anchored at the outer...

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This week celebrates the first formal installation of Starlink’s maritime broadband service within Anglo-Eastern’s managed fleet. The installation is part of a preliminary order covering a dozen vessels of various ship types and trading patterns, so that the service...

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The certification of M/S. S.N. Corporation’s Unit-02 ship recycling yard at Shitalpur, Sitakunda is a significant step for Bangladeshi green ship recycling, as this heralds the second ship yard in the country to become compliant with the International Maritime...

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Rates for shipping containers from Asia to the US continued to slide this week as congestion has largely dissipated at East and West Coast ports amid slowing demand from US consumers for goods, highlighting this week’s logistics update. Overall, pressure on global...

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Spot rates for very large crude carriers (VLCCs) — tankers that carry 2 million barrels of oil — just breached the $100,000-per-day threshold. It could be a taste of things to come. Analysts and investors are increasingly confident that the tanker business is headed...

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Oil and gas contractors on a series of North Sea platforms have voted to take strike action. Unite the union said about 150 Sparrows Offshore Services workers would take action across more than 20 platforms in a dispute over pay. The strike action will hit a number of...

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