Golden Ocean buys two

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013 — John Fredriksen’s Golden Ocean Group Limited reports that it has acquired one 2010 Korean built 181,000 dwt Capesize bulk carrier and one 2010 China built 29,200 dwt Handysize

Detention of bulker: “arbitrary and capricious”

MAY 10, 2013 — The Antonis G. Pappadakis, a 73,538 dwt Maltese-flag bulk carrier detained by the Coast Guard in Portsmouth, Va. after pollution allegations, could soon be released. When the Coast

Breathalyzed bulker captain enters guilty plea

APRIL 11, 2013 —  Valeriy Sharykin, 62, a Russian citizen, and captain of the 36,941 dwt, 24,167 grt, Maltese-flag bulker Adfines East, yesterday pleaded guilty to operating a commercial vessel under the

SDARI unveils handy size bulker concept design

JUNE 5, 2012 — A new Handysize bulk carrier concept design – the Green Dolphin – uses existing technologies to meet owners’ needs for fuel efficiency and operational flexibility while also being

Paragon Shipping terminates Supramax charter

Athens-headquartered Paragon Shipping Inc. (NYSE: PRGN) says that Deiulemar Compagnia di Navigazione SpA, the charterer of the M/V Friendly Seas, a 2008-built 58,779 dwt Supramax bulk carrier has continued to fail to

Rand Logistics buys U.S.-flag bulker and reflags it Canadian

Great Lakes bulker operator Rand Logistics, Inc. (Nasdaq:RLOG) says that its  Canadian operating subsidiary Lower Lakes Towing Ltd., Rand’s Canadian operating subsidiary, completed the previously announced acquisition of a U.S. flagged bulk