India has officially announced its first national container shipping line — Bharat Container Shipping Line (BCSL) — marking a major step in the country’s plan to reduce dependence on foreign carriers ...

Shipping is still very cautious about a wholesale fleet pivot back to the Suez Canal, but ship trackers are keeping a firm eye on a couple of vessels tiptoeing back to a region that has been off ...

Singapore-based dry bulk operator SeaTrek has entered a strategic partnership with Legasea, a fellow freight player backed by a private investment fund, to strengthen their position in the global dry ...

The opening Big Issues session of the Maritime CEO Forum yesterday at the Monaco Yacht Club provided a revealing snapshot of where shipping stands today: navigating an era of unprecedented volatility, ...

VLCCs roared well into six-digit territory yesterday, lending credence to projections by sister title Splash Extra that suggest 2025 is on track to be the best year for overall tanker earnings for a ...

Offshore drilling giant Noble Corporation has announced several new rig deals in its latest fleet status report, and one rig sale. The driller stated that three of its jackup rigs won more work with ...

Singapore’s Yinson Production has quietly extended its footprint into the VLCC segment, sealing a deal with Greek powerhouse Angelicoussis Group for the 317,100 dwt Maran Antares (built 2012, Daewoo).

Chinese dry bulk heavyweight Agricore is listed as buyer of the 178,100 dwt Cape Aqua (built 2009, Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding), confirming reports from last week that Primebulk had offloaded the ...

CNOOC subsidiary, China Offshore Oil Engineering Co (COOEC), has signed a contract for the construction of a wellhead platform and subsea pipelines for Thailand’s PTTEP. The contract, worth ...

Shipyard diplomacy is to the fore this week as Donald Trump tours Asia, with news of a significant Korean-US tie-up and more to follow from Tokyo where the US president is due to hold talks with new ...

Taiwan’s U-Ming Marine Offshore and Singapore-headquartered offshore energy maritime services firm Purus have formed a new joint venture aimed at expanding offshore wind operations in Taiwan and the ...

Philippos Ioulianou, managing director of EmissionLink, writes for Splash today. The decision by the International Maritime Organization to delay the Net-Zero Framework by a year has exposed deep ...