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Navios Maritime Partners has agreed to buy seven newbuildings for $703.2m: four 10,100 TEU boxships, a VLCC and two MR2 tankers, due 2028-29.

Turkey's energy ministry has picked DenAr Ocean Engineering to survey two Sea of Marmara areas for the country's first offshore wind programme.

HII's Ingalls has picked Florida's Eastern Shipbuilding to build six structural units for the future USS Philadelphia (LPD 32), due in 2027.

Two new ship-to-shore cranes at Hutchison Ports Sydney can work vessels of over 15,000 TEU, far bigger than the 9,000 TEU ships now serving Australia.

China's Ningbo-Zhoushan Port is bidding at least $157m for a 10.73% stake in TCP, the main container terminal at Brazil's Port of Paranaguá.

The Bangkok-listed dry bulk owner's leadership change takes effect on 1 January 2027, after more than three decades with Hashim at the helm.

About nine merchant ships were hit off Romania and Bulgaria in October, with around 34 seafarers dead or missing. The French aircraft can spot sea drones but cannot stop them.

Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding delivered the 141,900 gt ship to Adora Cruises on 6 November. Design work on a third Chinese-built cruise ship has already begun.