With only a few years in shipowning, Dubai-based SPM Shipping has now added its first VLGC after moving into both the capesize and VLCC segments. The company has been named as the buyer of Dorian…
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The Strait of Hormuz disruption is exposing the vulnerability of concentrated global trade routes, with shipping traffic collapsing, oil prices rising and freight costs increasing. Australia is…
Shipping is betting on more ships thanks, in no small part, to the disruption created by fewer reliable routes. That contradiction ran through much of Splash’s coverage this week. Panama, Hormuz, the…
A US-sanctioned product tanker has been hijacked in the Gulf of Aden and forced towards Somalia, the second reported vessel seizure in the region this week as Somali piracy gathers renewed momentum.…
A new independent report has called for urgent international intervention in the case of two senior seafarers convicted of drug trafficking in Türkiye, arguing that serious gaps in the evidence raise…
Crowley has announced a new weekly container service connecting Port Houston to Santo Tomás de Castilla in Guatemala and Puerto Cortés in Honduras, two of Central America’s largest and…
In six months of on-again, off-again fighting with Iran, the United States has effectively exhausted its supply of heavy air defence interceptors. The...
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