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Nasdaq-listed Greek tanker owner Performance Shipping has extended the charter of its aframax Blue Moon with MISC Group’s tanker arm AET for another two years. The 2011-built, 104,623 dwt vessel will earn $43,000 per day during the first year and $38,000 per day in the second, giving an average rate of $40,500 per day. The …

Ship operators are increasingly being caught out by bunkers that sail through ISO 8217 testing only to wreak havoc once onboard, according to Lloyd’s Register’s latest fuel quality report. While off-specification fuels remain a persistent headache, some of the most disruptive cases investigated by the classification society’s Fuel Oil Bunker Analysis and Advisory Service (FOB...

Reported incidents of piracy and armed robbery against ships in Asia have fallen to their lowest first-half tally in seven years, as a concerted crackdown in the Singapore Strait reversed last year’s alarming surge. The ReCAAP Information Sharing Centre logged 35 incidents across the region between January and June, down 64% on the 96 recorded …

New York-listed VLCC owner DHT Holdings has fixed one of its ships on a three-year time charter as it continues to build forward cover at firm levels. The Svein Moxnes Harfjeld-led company has signed a deal for the 2015-built DHT Jaguar with an unnamed global energy company. The contract is set at $75,000 per day …

Malaysia’s Velesto Energy has terminated the sale of one of its jackups to PT Indonesia Drilling Energy. The deal for the sale of the 2010-built Naga 3 jackup was agreed in mid-December 2025 for a cash consideration of $63m. Velesto said at the time that the sale was in line with the company’s ongoing fleet …