13/06/2014at 14:54

This week's top stories on ShippingWatch

This week ShippingWatch reported on a new shipping Bachelor and Monjasa's growth focus following a good year, and brought a big interview with the CEO of Maersk Supply Service.

BY LOUISE VOGDRUP-SCHMIDT

The slightly shorter week on ShippingWatch following Pentecost did not bring a shortage of good stories.

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Weco Shipping is active within dry bulk through Weco Bulk and within oil freight through Weco Tankers. | Foto: Weco Bulk

Carriers

Weco Shipping doubles its profit and sets new company record

”It has been a great year,” says owner Johan Wedell-Wedellsborg after the group has managed to double its bottom line in the course of one year.

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Logistics

Maersk chair on investor criticism: "I get the feeling that ATP also will ask about it next year"

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Foto: Marvin Ibo G'ng'r/AP/Ritzau Scanpix

Logistics

Media: Divestment of DB Schenker unlikely to finish before 2024

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Archival image. Does not show the ships in question. | Foto: Euronav

Tanker

Euronav vessel accused of loading Iranian oil

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Tanker

Major stakeholder sells off Torm shares after share rally

A new political intervention against low pay on ferries on the English Channel could inspire other countries to instate their own demands to carriers, says Danish Shipping. | Foto: John Sibley/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix

Regulation

Shipowners fear wide-ranging consequences of law against low wages

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Major shareholder got his new Maersk board in place despite criticism

Former CEO of Adidas Kasper Rørsted was elected for Maersk’s board despite criticism of an ”error” on his resumé. Chair Robert Mærsk Uggla is certain of the decision.

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Regulation

Shipowners fear wide-ranging consequences of law against low wages

Danish Shipping and ECSA both worry about the tendency of local demands to carriers. DFDS agrees cautiously but is happy to see British intervention.

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Vincent Clerc (left), CEO of Maersk, and Chairman Robert Mærsk Uggla during Maersk's digital general assembly. | Foto: Pr-foto

Offshore

Clerc considered other solutions than selling Maersk Supply Service to main shareholder

Maersk Chair Robert Mærsk Uggla confirms that he was not involved in Maersk’s divestment of Maersk Supply Service to the Maersk family’s holding company, A.P. Moller Holding.

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