Логистика, транспорт и Транскаспийский маршрут из 44 международных источников. Каждую статью читает ИИ: переводит на русский и оценивает влияние на Средний коридор по шкале от 0 до 10.
Статья рассуждает о том, что рынок судоходства редко четко сигнализирует о своей вершине. Спор о достижении пика обычно начинается, когда ставки фрахта еще растут, а владельцы судов продолжают покупать их по высоким ценам.
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Новость носит общий обзорный характер о цикличности рынка судоходства и не привязана к конкретным узлам Среднего коридора. Прямого влияния на перевозки по маршруту она не оказывает, но может косвенно отражать ожидания по ставкам фрахта.
Связанные с Grace Energy Shipping (Дубай) структуры продали танкер-суэцмакс Vendavel 2011 года постройки за $94,5 млн, что почти вдвое выше цены покупки чуть более двух лет назад. Покупатель не раскрыт.
Splash247 MaritimeПорты и суда
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Новость касается рынка продажи танкеров и роста их стоимости, а не перевозок. Связи с Транскаспийским маршрутом в тексте нет, поэтому влияния на коридор не ожидается.
Россия усилила атаки на коммерческие суда и портовую инфраструктуру в Одесской области Украины. Минобороны РФ заявило об ударах по четырём сухогрузам в районе порта Черноморск, Бугского лимана и северо-западной части Чёрного моря.
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Новость касается ударов по судам и портам Одесского региона Украины, а не маршрутов Среднего коридора через Каспий. Прямого влияния на узлы Транскаспийского маршрута (Актау, Баку, Поти, Батуми) в тексте не указано; косвенно это повышает общий риск для судоходства в Чёрном море.
Китайский перевозчик Sea Legend объявил о восьми еженедельных рейсах между Китаем и Европой через российскую Арктику, начиная с августа.
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Новость касается арктического морского маршрута между Китаем и Европой, а не Среднего коридора. Прямой связи с узлами и участками Транскаспийского маршрута в тексте нет.
Macquarie has disclosed a $99m senior debt facility for George Youroukos-led Technomar covering the refinancing of seven containerships. The Australian financial group said the funding was provided to shipowning entities within the Athens-based Technomar Group, although it did not identify the seven vessels, disclose …
Greek tanker newcomer Akrotiri Tankers has returned to New Times Shipbuilding for a second suezmax, continuing a rapid expansion of its Chinese newbuilding programme. Shipbroking sources place the latest order at $84.4m for a 157,000 dwt crude tanker scheduled for delivery in June 2029. The contract takes Akrotiri’s s…
Harry Vafias-led Imperial Petroleum has reportedly sold its remaining suezmax, the 2008-built Suez Protopia, for $82m. VesselsValue identified Imperial Petroleum as the seller in its September 30 transaction data. The buyer has not been disclosed. VesselsValue estimates the Samsung Heavy Industries-built 160,391 dwt t…
The Premier Alliance is preparing to send one of its Asia-Europe strings back through the Suez Canal this month, adding fresh momentum to the container sector’s retreat from lengthy Cape of Good Hope diversions and sharpening concerns over how much vessel capacity a fuller Red Sea return could release back into the ma…
The tanker S&P market continues to deliver eye-catching prices. A sale has raised eyebrows among brokers who report a non-eco suezmax selling for $90m — a price difficult to imagine only weeks ago. The deal involves Greek shipping heavyweight George Procopiou’s Dynacom Tankers, selling the 150,000 dwt Karolos (bui…
COSCO (Guangdong) Shipyard has completed the first of at least two conversions turning supramax bulk carriers into containerships, according to Alphaliner. The 53,000 dwt Pu Tuo Hai, a 2007-built Diamond 53 bulker, entered the Guangzhou yard on June 10 and emerged a little over three months later as the 2,528 teu Sing…
India’s Great Eastern Shipping has contracted to acquire a 157,000 dwt newbuilding suezmax, adding a yard-built ship to a fleet renewal drive that has so far been dominated by secondhand transactions. The Mumbai-listed owner disclosed the deal late on Monday, saying the tanker will be constructed by an unnamed leading…
A potentially significant new capesize tradelane is taking shape in Central Africa, with plans to move as much as 100m tonnes of iron ore a year from landlocked Central African Republic through Cameroon’s deepwater port of Kribi. Drewry estimates that if the proposed CAR-Kribi corridor reaches anything close to its pl…
Thailand’s Regional Container Lines has returned to CSSC Huangpu Wenchong for another four containerships, adding a new 3,100 teu class to its rapidly expanding orderbook at the Guangzhou-based builder. RCL signed for four of Huangpu Wenchong’s in-house Honghu-series ships, taking its programme at the yard to 16 vesse…
Evangelos Marinakis-led Capital Group has emerged as the buyer of Exmar’s first suezmax newbuilding in a resale deal reported at more than $106m. Greek shipping and financial sources place Capital behind the 157,000 dwt hull HN5112, currently under construction at South Korea’s DH Shipbuilding for delivery in 2027. Th…
Rio Tinto has offloaded the final two ships from its eight-strong owned newcastlemax fleet, with Turkey’s Yasa Shipping taking the 2013-built RTM Drake and RTM Tasman. Yasa’s own fleet records now list the ships as the 205,437 dwt Yasa Drake and 205,432 dwt Yasa Pioneer, respectively. Both were built by Hanjin Heavy I…
Germany’s Offen Group is looking to return to containership newbuildings after more than a decade away, with the Hamburg tonnage provider linked to up to four ships at China’s Guangzhou Shipyard International. Shipbroking and market sources have Offen in discussions with the CSSC-controlled yard for two firm plus two …
Angeliki Frangou-led Navios Maritime Partners has been linked to another four containership newbuilds at South Korea’s HJ Shipbuilding & Construction (HJSC), in a deal worth around $500m. HJSC disclosed this week that it had signed up an unidentified Oceania-based owner for four containerships, with the contract w…
The troubled MSC Hermes III remains afloat and drifting unmanned in the South China Sea after all 25 crew abandoned the vessel yesterday. A fresh HYDROPAC navigational warning describes the 20-year-old containership as a “derelict” vessel adrift near 11°45’N 112°15’E, around 300 km east of Vietnam. The warning is curr…
Container shipping’s extraordinary newbuilding binge has reached a point where several carriers now have more ships on order than they have in their entire existing fleets. Shipping analyst Lars Jensen, who runs Vespucci Maritime, highlighted five operators in Alphaliner’s top 100 where the orderbook exceeds the curre…
Cruise and container giant Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) is in talks over a possible investment in German shipyard Meyer Werft. Bloomberg and multiple German media have reported MSC is negotiating for a possible acquisition of the 80% stake in Meyer Werft currently held by Germany’s federal government and the state …
Turkey has pushed back the planned departure of the Osman Gazi floating production platform from Filyos Port to late October, delaying its deployment to the Sakarya gas field in the Black Sea. Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar had previously said the unit would leave Filyos at the end of Septem…
Marseille-based liner Marfret has signed for two feeder containerships at China’s Hubei Guangji Green Energy Shipbuilding, handing the recently commissioned Yangtze yard another overseas order. The contract covers two 480 teu ships. Pricing and delivery dates have not been disclosed. Shanghai Merchant Ship Design and …
The world’s two great east-west container trades are moving in dramatically different directions, with the gap between transpacific and Asia-Europe spot rates widening to unprecedented levels. Clarksons Research said in its latest Shipping Intelligence Weekly that “geographic divergence” continued in the container fre…
Clarksons’ cross-sector ClarkSea Index continues to record new all-time highs as strong conditions spread across gas carriers, bulkers, containerships and car carriers to go alongside the extraordinary earnings seen in the crude tanker sector. The ClarkSea Index climbed another 14% on Friday to $64,569 a day, propelle…
Turkey has presented Russia and Ukraine with a draft proposal aimed at ending attacks on commercial vessels in the Black Sea, the latest attempt to contain a maritime conflict that is taking an increasingly heavy toll on merchant shipping. Ankara has shared the text of a memorandum with both Moscow and Kyiv designed t…
The most extraordinary numbers this week came from tankers, where the Baltic Exchange’s Middle East Gulf-China VLCC benchmark broke through the equivalent of $1m a day for the first time. VLCCs loading outside the Gulf are earning close to a million a day too, suezmax and aframax markets are flying and 10-year-old VLC…
Dutch chartering company Transito has launched a new service combining sea freight and inland shipping under one contract, as low water levels and other disruptions put more pressure on cargo movements between European seaports and the hinterland. The service, named Total Freight, covers the sea voyage, port handling,…
Geneva-based Advantage Tankers has been linked to another pair of suezmax newbuildings at Samsung Heavy Industries, doubling up at the South Korean yard as its tanker ordering spree continues. Shipbroking sources have placed the Tugrul Tokgoz-led owner behind two crude tankers Samsung disclosed this week as part of a …
South Korea is reviving subsidies for long-haul crude imports from outside the Middle East, a move that could provide another boost to tanker tonne-mile demand as Seoul seeks to lock in the diversification achieved since the Iran war began. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said it will expand support for the…
Bulk carriers are spending dramatically longer – nearly 20% – at sea than at the start of the decade while also travelling more slowly, quietly removing effective capacity from the fleet just as freight rates surge to multi-year highs. The global dry bulk fleet may be getting bigger, but new research publi…