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#Ports&Shipping –The latest IMDO Weekly Shipping Market Review includes the following stories as detailed below. Irish Economy: Exports could fall 2.8bn - The value of exports from the Republic could fall by €2.8 billion this year as earnings from pharmaceutical…

#ArdmoreGroup – As previously reported, Ardmore Shipping Group has purchased two 50,300 dwt IMO 3 class eco-product tankers worth $68m / €50m from South Korean shipbuilders, SSP, writes Jehan Ashmore. Ardmore Shipping eventually intend to control a 24-strong fleet and…

#ShippingReview: Over the last fortnight Jehan Ashmore has reported from the shipping scene where the Isle of Man based Ramsey Steamship Company could face closure in its centenary year. Funding for a £81m renewable energy plant is to be built…

#IslandShipping- Wicklow based Island Shipping has become a Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) accredited course provider. Island Shipping is to deliver the highest levels of service, safety and efficiency in response to the needs of the evolving work-boat and crew-boat…

#ArdmoreExpansion – Cork based Ardmore Shipping say they have begun the execution of their product and chemical tankship fleet explansion plan, according to MarineLink.com The company has put the plan into effect by exercising options on a further two 50,300-dwt…

#Ports - Ireland's port companies will be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act under amendments contained in a new bill put forward by Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. Last week the minister announced the publication of the FOI…

#Ports&Shipping –The latest IMDO Weekly Shipping Market Review includes the following stories as detailed below. Irish Economy: Surge in Manufacturing - New export orders for Irish manufacturing companies grew in July for the first time in five months. The Investec…

#IOMregistry - Registry of vessels on the Isle of Man Ship Registry has increased following an announcement by the authority that it has registered 'Hanjin Blue Ocean' who are completing a series of nine 13,000 TEU container vessels to register…

#EnergyPort - Funding for a renewable energy  plant costing £81m is to be built at Londonderry Harbour Commissioners lands at Lisahally. Northern Ireland-based Evermore Renewable Energy will build the flagship biomass CHP plant, which is the first of its kind…

#ManxCargo - Ramsey Steamship Company's chairman has expressed his sadness that the historical business could face closure in its centenary year. The 100-year-old freight, engineering and agency company faces going into liquidation due to its share of a multibillion pound…

#Ports&Shipping –The latest IMDO Weekly Shipping Market Review includes the following stories as detailed below. Irish Economy: BRIC potential - Some 40% of Enterprise Ireland's overseas offices are now in the so-called BRIC nations of Brazil,Russia, India and China or…

#ShippingReview: Over the last fortnight Jehan Ashmore has reported from the shipping scene where the former detained 19,354 tonnes bulk-carrier Clipper Faith which was sold last month for €4.5m has been renamed Island Mariner. A 4% drop in Irish exports…

#FlagshipIreland – Flagship Management, a US Maritime Consultancy and Recruitment firm has announced that it is locating its European, Middle East and African (EMEA) Headquarters to Kinvara, Co Galway, creating 15 new jobs over the next three years. The EMEA…

#Ports&Shipping –The latest IMDO Weekly Shipping Market Review includes the following stories as detailed below. Freight Forwarders: Growth in global freight- forwarding market in 2012 was entirely down to the strong performance of seafreight as airfreight volumes continue to decline,…

#PortTraining – UNCTAD's TrainForTrade Port Training Programme have agreed to implement a third cycle of the course following a conference held in Belfast earlier this month. Forty-three representatives from UNCTAD, the Irish Government, and the Irish port partners - Dublin…

#SoldShipSails – Island Mariner, the recently renamed former detained bulk-carrier Clipper Faith, departed Dublin Port for the first time yesterday since her arrival more than four months ago,writes Jehan Ashmore. The 29,501dwt bulker had loaded a cargo of animal products…