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New Analysis Counts the Cost of Maritime Chokepoint Closures

New Analysis Counts the Cost of Maritime Chokepoint Closures

The world’s 11 busiest maritime chokepoints are increasingly becoming vulnerable and prone to the risk of closure due to politics,...
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Protesters Call for Chinese Nationals to Leave China’s Gwadar Port

Protesters Call for Chinese Nationals to Leave China’s Gwadar Port

Protests on the expansion of the Pakistan’s Gwadar Port, a key asset for China’s BRI( Belt and Road Initiative) in...
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Eni Orders Second FLNG From Wison in Push to Maximize Production

Eni Orders Second FLNG From Wison in Push to Maximize Production

Italian oil company Eni has reached an agreement with Chinese oil and gas plant specialists Wison Heavy Industries to build...
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Hyundai Completes Verification for LNG/Hydrogen Hybrid Engine

Hyundai Completes Verification for LNG/Hydrogen Hybrid Engine

Hyundai Heavy Industries Group has developed and successfully tested Korea's first LNG/hydrogen mixed-firing engine. The development of the hybrid engine...
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USCG Responds to Possible Carbon Monoxide Exposure on Cargo Ship

USCG Responds to Possible Carbon Monoxide Exposure on Cargo Ship

The U.S. Coast Guard and a local Delaware fire department are reporting that they were called out on Christmas afternoon...
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European Investment Bank Sees Massive Green H2 Potential in Africa

European Investment Bank Sees Massive Green H2 Potential in Africa

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has called on Africa to harness its massive solar energy resource to produce cheap and...
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USCG Receives Authorization for New Great Lakes Heavy Icebreaker

USCG Receives Authorization for New Great Lakes Heavy Icebreaker

Contained within the massive new National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 is the start of a program to...
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Head of Russia’s Admiralty Shipyards Dies Suddenly

Head of Russia’s Admiralty Shipyards Dies Suddenly

Russia’s Admiralty Shipyards has announced the “sudden” death of its director general, Alexander Buzakov, a day after he presided over...
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Nordic Shipholding Plans to Liquidate in 2023

Nordic Shipholding Plans to Liquidate in 2023

After failing to secure a merger partner and facing deepening losses, Danish shipping company Nordic Shipholding is set to liquidate...
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Livestock Carrier Ordered Auctioned as Owner Abandons Ship and Crew

Livestock Carrier Ordered Auctioned as Owner Abandons Ship and Crew

The Australian Federal Court is preparing to auction off the livestock carrier Yangtze Fortune which it believes has been abandoned by its...
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IMO-ILO Call for New Protocols to Address Rise in Abandoned Seafarers

IMO-ILO Call for New Protocols to Address Rise in Abandoned Seafarers

Faced with a dramatic rise of crewmembers being abandoned over the past few years, the International Maritime Organization working with...
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Russia Invests in Volga-Don Canal as Trade With Iran Booms

Russia Invests in Volga-Don Canal as Trade With Iran Booms

Russia and Iran are working on an infrastructure expansion program that would vastly increase their inland trade ties, including a...
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MSC Containership Held Offshore After Belgium Receives Bomb Threat

MSC Containership Held Offshore After Belgium Receives Bomb Threat

An MSC containership is being held offshore while the Belgian authorities investigate a bomb threat made against the vessel shortly...
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Sea-Intelligence: Overcapacity Could Trigger Container Price War

Sea-Intelligence: Overcapacity Could Trigger Container Price War

During the surge in container shipments, the carriers had every possible vessel sailing to maximize capacity on their routes. Now...
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Russian Oil Exports Slow as Tanker Market Sorts Out Sanctions Impact

Russian Oil Exports Slow as Tanker Market Sorts Out Sanctions Impact

Russia's seaborne oil exports appear to be taking a hit as the tanker market sorts out the implications of new...
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Engine Room Fire Causes Evacuation of 868 Passengers from Ferry in NYC

Engine Room Fire Causes Evacuation of 868 Passengers from Ferry in NYC

An engine room fire aboard one of the newly commissioned Staten Island Ferries in New York City caused a mid-harbor...
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EU Grant for Demonstration of Hydrogen Fuel Cell on Product Tanker

EU Grant for Demonstration of Hydrogen Fuel Cell on Product Tanker

The European Union has agreed to provide a €5 million ($5.3 million) grant to a unique project that seeks to...
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India sees global economic developments complicating its outlook

India sees global economic developments complicating its outlook

Global economic developments are expected to complicate India’s outlook further, the finance ministry said in a monthly review on Friday,...
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U.S. oil imports down, exports up

U.S. oil imports down, exports up

U.S. crude oil imports decreased and exports increased during the week ending Dec. 16, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said...
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Freeport LNG delays Texas export plant restart to second half January

Freeport LNG delays Texas export plant restart to second half January

Freeport LNG said on Friday it was again delaying the restart of its long-shut liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant...
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