Last week's top stories on ShippingWatch
Equity funds enter the North Sea
While the oil crisis has prompted several trend-setting oil companies such as Shell and ExxonMobil to scale down their North Sea activities, major international equity funds are increasingly setting their sights on the region, and they have in recent years invested billions of dollars in projects and acquisitions of medium-sized companies operating in the North Sea.
Equity funds enter North Sea with billion-dollar investments
Dong in a strong offshore position
OPEC boosts oil-demand outlook while its production rises
SBM Offshore: Oil companies still hesitating
Maersk lobbyists hard at work in the US
Following strong criticism in 2014, Maersk Line had its lobbyists stop work against reforms of US food aid in efforts to safeguard its own bottom line. But a review shows that Maersk is still spending money on lobbyism aimed at food aid.
Maersk still spending lobby money on controversial food aid
This is what Maersk spends its lobbying dollars on in Washington
Maersk and the US shipping lobby under pressure
Maersk figures head new investment fund
APM Holding joins forces with Danish pension funds PKA, Pension Danmark, and Lægernes Pension to establish a fund for investing in Africa totaling USD 550 million under the name Afrika Infrastruktur Fond. Well-known Maersk executives will head the project.
APM Holding behind new USD 550 million Africa fund
Fejfer back in key role for Maersk investments
Bulk carriers improving across the board
Several major dry bulk carriers documented this week that the growth in the suffering sector is real, when they released quarterly and half yearly reports with positive figures.
Star Bulk cements progress in bulk
Genco's results reflect stronger bulk market
Eagle Bulk reduced its losses in Q2
Songa Bulk continues dry bulk acquisitions
English Edit: Gretchen Deverell Pedersen
Moody's has renewed faith in the shipping industry
Crude oil tanker rates circling three-year low
