Dry Cargo Vessel News Roundup | January 6 – German multi-purpose ship construction plus bulker and car carrier orders
Japan’s First Floating Wind Farm Starts Commercial Ops Using Hybrid Design
Singapore Cites Fatigue, Manning and Safety Culture in Fatal 2024 Accident
Saudi Arabia continues price cuts on Arab Light crude to Asia
US Coast Guard and MARAD conclude transition of deepwater port licensing duties
Finland Identifies Anchor Dragline in Investigation into Cable Damage
Latvia Investigates New Cable Damage Incident in the Baltic
Turkey to stress Black Sea security as "strategic priority" at Ukraine summit
Latvia finds no link between docked ship and subsea cable damage
Daily Briefing 6 January 2026
Venezuela risk accelerates Russian intake of shadow fleet vessels
- Iranian aframax and vintage bulkers consigned to shipbreaker’s torch
- Vessel cleared of Latvian undersea cable damage
- The week in newbuildings: Orders valued at $5.6bn confirmed
- Venezuela exports slump as Maduro capture set to alter tanker patterns
- South Korea’s shipbuilding giants vow to stay ahead as China closes the gap
- LC Logistics Resells 14,000 teu newbuilding to MSC for $170m
- Aging Freighter Goes Aground in Sea of Marmara
- Offshore wind suppliers ProCon and Hyndla to merge
- Kosmos Energy receives offshore licence extensions in Ghana, to acquire FPSO
- California's Mare Island Dry Dock to close permanently

