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Classification society American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has joined forces with Google Cloud and SoftServe to bring AI-enabled corrosion detection to the offshore and maritime industries. The three sides recently...

Six crew members of a Palau-flagged tanker were kidnapped by pirates off Nigeria last week.  The incident occurred at the Bonny Outer Anchorage on April 19, 2019, the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre said. Identified as the 3...

ADNOC Logistics & Services-chartered cargo ship Lucky Ocho is en route to Yantai, China, with a maiden load of 10,500 tons of UAE-produced calcined coke. The first shipment was loaded by ADNOC Refining, a subsidiary of...

Norwegian shipping company Klaveness Combination Carriers has signed a Contract of Affreightment (COA) for its new generation of combination carriers, the CLEANBUs. The deal was signed between a Klaveness subsidiary and...

A Chilean car shipping company has been referred to the Competition Tribunal of South Africa for prosecution for collusive tendering, price fixing and market division. Compania Sud Americana De Vapores S.A (CSAV) has...

Owner and operator of LNG carriers Teekay LNG Partners has secured a new charter contract for its LNG carrier, the 2009-built Magellan Spirit. The 3-year fixed-rate contract, secured with an integrated oil and gas...

Ocean Network Express (ONE) expanded its fleet with the latest containership newbuilding, the ONE Apus, on April 24. The 14,000 TEU boxship was delivered at Kure Shipyard of Japan Marine United Corporation. The sublet...

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has taken delivery of the very large crude carrier (VLCC) Phoenix Jamnagar on April 24. Delivered from Japan Marine United Corporation, the 311,798 dwt vessel will be placed under control of MOL...

Wes Amelie, the world’s first containership retrofitted with a liquefied natural gas (LNG) engine, has received LNG in a ship-to-ship (STS) operation from the world’s largest LNG bunker supply vessel Kairos. The operation...

Manager, owner and the Chief Engineer of the cargo vessel Nederland Reefer have been indicted for falsification of pollution records, obstruction of justice and witness tampering. A federal grand jury in Wilmington,...