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Crisis? What crisis? Shipping sails smoothly on amid world turmoil

Experts point to high level of demoralisation for cruise staff

Wavelength

Jakarta’s protectionism raises alarm for free and fair shipping

Profile

Hamburg hosts global court for settlement of maritime disputes

Profile

ITLOS decisions are final and binding, but cases can often take years to resolve

‘Go-getter’ Pilides helping to sell Cyprus as hub for global shipping

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Flag state can pursue ITLOS claim on behalf of itself, owners and crew

CSL’s European joint venture makes it a pair at Chengxi

Just when you thought it was safe, downturn alarms flash red

Sweet Chinese crude could make scrubber retrofits a money loser

Pathy likes his assets heavy as Fednav rivals travel light

Boxships

LNG as a fuel not a 'dead-end' option despite slow uptake

CMB ramps up investment in hydrogen-fuelling projects

Interview

Clarksons and Enerjen Capital aim to put power back in the hands of bunker buyers

Interim boss Ron Series seeks to set Braemar up for the long run

Ardmore explains rare step of revealing net asset value

Case rules out newbuild 'shock wave' and eyes capital markets 'game changer'

Stevenson signals Diamond S Shipping set to renew its MR fleet

Market analysis

Naphtha matters more to LR product tankers than IMO 2020

Cruise And Ferry

Star Clippers and Brodosplit fight over sail-powered cruise newbuilding

Renamed Grace 1 sails from Gibraltar after last ditch US arrest effort

OCIMF ‘unlawfully’ stripped surveyor of accreditation over false logbook claims

Blaze hits Avenir LNG newbuilding in China

Boxships

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Maersk Line ramps up charters ahead of 2020

Boxship fires top of agenda for industry group CSSF

Chinese lessors own very largest boxships but sizes still unclear

Contchart boss John Freydag holds out hope for small boxships rise

Ship Finance International seals scrubber deal for seven boxships

Panamax boxship rates and charter periods on the rise

US seizes MSC Gayane after $1.3bn drugs bust

Okee Maritime closes in on fifth boxship purchase

Nordic Hamburg takes another Schepers vessel

Maersk Line launches bid for share of digital bookings

Boxship demolitions on course to double as feeders head to beaches

Market analysis

Greeks show boxship S&P zeal

Maersk eyes Arctic route tie-up with Atomflot

Two biggest investors build Hapag-Lloyd stakes

Atlantica Shipping boosts fleet with boxship buy

Evergreen seeks offers on nine giant, scrubber-fitted boxships

Cosco leasing unit to borrow $149m from China Minmetals

Trada scraps LR1 as it gets out of large tanker sector

Centrofin poised to exit VLCC segment with sale of duo

First time lucky at auction for small chemical tanker

NGM Energy sells second VLCC to Dubai-based operator

Braemar revives Wavespec name to rebrand engineering arm

NOCC charters out entire fleet but avoids long-term contracts

LNG

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Shell confirms tie-up with Sinokor on LNG-fuelled aframax tanker haul

ExxonMobil charters Singapore’s first LNG-fuelled bunker tanker

Floating LNG storage hype continues but ships not 'idle'

NYK Line behind Samsung Heavy Industries' latest LNG order

Ship Management

German owners call for fighting West Africa piracy

Navios Acquisition unveils sale-and-leaseback deals for 10 ships

Skuld teams up with Concirrus on insurtech data venture

Cefor signals return of high-cost losses for Nordic insurers

Siem Industries earmarks Subsea 7 share options

Sveaas-owned Kistefos taps bond market for $27.8m