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Marinakis group diversifies into offshore support vessels
En bloc purchases reaching $106.2m may not be the last in the sector as Greek owner is expected to hunt for more offshore vessels

Oaktree offloads $84.6m of Torm shares
US private equity giant Oaktree Capital Management has sold 2.8m of Torm shares for about $84.6m, over eight months after it abandoned a planned market sale of 5m shares when the stock tanked

Otto Schacht and Kirsi Tikka join Lloyd’s List advisory panel
The Editorial Advisory Board was established in 2018 to ensure that Lloyd’s List maintains the highest standard of journalism and is the most trusted provider of shipping news and analysis

Genco agrees $500m RCF
Genco Shipping has closed on a $500m revolving credit facility, expanding its borrowing capacity by 46% from $156m. The facility includes a sustainability-linked feature, with interest rates rising or falling by a margin of 0.05% based on fleetwide carbon emissions targets

Carriers box themselves in with lower charter ratios
Container lines bought up swathes of tonnage during the boom years. Now the market has turned, lower charter capacity will make it harder to cut their cloth to fit

AET secures $100m sustainability-linked loan
The loan will be used to reduce the greenhouse gas emission intensity of AET’s fleet by 40% in 2030 from a 2008 baseline. The company is aiming to achieve net-zero GHG emissions by 2050

Capesize spot rates surge to two-year high as Atlantic trade booms
A tighter-than-expected supply and demand balance points to higher average rate levels for the coming year, Jefferies says

Climate risk is changing shipping bankers’ behaviour but spooking investors
While shipping lenders have taken early steps through their Poseidon Principles, aligning portfolios to decreasing CO2 trajectories in line with global targets, this is at times at odds with their beliefs and behaviours in what they are financing, according to a new academic study

Frontline takes hit as Russian crude tops price cap but says it is time for VLCCs to shine
Frontline says future tanker capacity is not reflecting projected trade but the addition of 24 Euronav crude carriers will double Frontline’s VLCC position from the first quarter of next year

Euronav plans ‘more equal balance’ of shareholder cash and energy transition
Belgian tanker giant says it will diversify, decarbonise and optimise its fleet, after its $2.4bn deal to end the battle for control with Norway’s Frontline

Pyxis Tankers makes another bulker move with kamsarmax acquisition from Safe Bulkers
Pyxis Tankers has agreed to acquire a 2015-built kamsarmax from Safe Bulkers. It is the tanker owner’ second dry bulk move since announcing a joint venture with an entity controlled by chief executive Valentios Valentis in September

Maersk sells entire Höegh Autoliners shareholding at height of vehicle carrier market
Exit from Höegh Autoliners comes 15 years after Maersk transferred its 12-strong vehicle carrier fleet to Oslo-based pure car and truck carrier operator in exchange for shareholding
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