‘Shipshape 10 List’, a list of news and articles published in the current week that a senior executive in shipping, shipping finance, commodities, energy, supply chain and infrastructure should had noticed; news and articles that are shaping the agenda and the course of the maritime industry.

Sometimes seemingly tangential, periodically humorous, occasionally sarcastic, sporadically artistic, inferentially erotic, but always insightful and topical.

And, this week’s ‘Shipshape 10’:

Talking about destruction of value for the sellers…
1. Borr Drilling to buy Transocean’s jack-up rig fleet for $1.35bn (Seatrade Maritime)

and, the riskiness of the offshore drilling markets…
2. Shell’s Titanic Bet: Can Deep-Water Drilling Be Done on the Cheap? (The Wall Street Journal)

when, oil majors start thinking beyond oil…
3. Big Oil Replaces Rigs With Wind Turbines (Bloomberg)

But, some shipowners too think cleaner energy
4a. World’s First LNG-Fuelled Aframax Tankers Ordered (The Maritime Executive)

4b. Crowley Launches LNG-Powered Con/Ro for Jones Act Trade (The Maritime Executive)

But, in the mainstream shipping world, another week, another bailout or blowout …
5a. Korean Shipbuilder Seeks Another Bailout (The Wall Street Journal)

5b. Daewoo Shipbuilding: deep water (Financial Times)

or a dugout…
6. Maersk Line, Hapag-Lloyd Among Carriers Subpoenaed in U.S. Price-Fixing Probe (The Wall Street Journal)

But, some publicly listed companies going long the market, but paying in paper mostly, no hard cash…
7a. BW Sells All Its VLCCs to DHT Holdings (Splash 24/7)

7b. Golden Ocean Inks Agreements to Buy Quintana Shipping’s Entire Fleet (Seatrade Maritime)

A highly recommended private equity fund implodes; only noteworthy to shipping since they were the first to enter shipping in JV-style post financial crisis looking for distressed value; Euromar platform with publicly listed Euroseas (Ticker: ESEAS)
8. Eton Park to Shut Down as $3 Trillion Hedge Fund Industry Faces Turmoil (The New York Times)

Looking for maritime college education, look no further than the State University of New York Maritime College at Fort Schuyler, just outside New York City.
9. The Young Mariners of Throgs Neck (The New York Times)

And, finally, a story when passion and avocation turn into a (profitable) vocation. We could not argue against seafood and especially New England lobster!
10. A Restaurant’s Sales Pitch: Know Your Lobster (The New York Times)

Sovcomflot’s Products Tanker MT ‘Anichkov Bridge’ entering the Upper New York Harbor with the Manhattan skyline in the background. Image credit: Karatzas Images.

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