Diana Shipping Inc. announced on November 21, that, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, it has entered into a time charter contract with BG Shipping Co., Limited, Hong Kong, for one of its Post-Panamax dry bulk vessels, the m/v Alcmene.

thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions, a leading partner for the engineering, construction and service of industrial plants and systems, has signed a contract to supply a large-scale continuous mining system to Italian-Thai Development PLC (ITD).

Genma has secured the supplying of two units of the GHC150 mobile harbor crane to the Port of Acajutla, in El Salvador.

UK-based Datum Electronics has been awarded a contract from Oldendorff Carriers, to supply the company's fleet with Datum Shaft Power Meter systems, to seamlessly integrate with various existing ship performance monitoring systems.

In the week from September 7 to 14, all the major shipping indices continued to slip compared to the previous week.

Between August 24 and 31, the Baltic Dry Index fell even further than in the previous week, slipping seven percent to 1,579 points.

Recently, a 4000TPH Genma shiploader was delivered to Indonesia's largest coal terminal, Balikpapan Coal Terminal (BCT).