4 September 2026
‘Ignore them at your peril’: Business war-games the rise of One Nation AFR
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4 September 2026
Monaco-based Scorpio Tankers has put three product tankers on three-year charters carrying more than $110m in aggregate gross revenue at the disclosed headline rates. The Emanuele Lauro-led owner has fixed LR2s STI Gladiator and STI Jermyn at $40,188 and $42,500 per day, respectively, with both charters starting this month. MR tanker STI Pontiac has been …
4 September 2026
Singapore-listed Yangzijiang Maritime Development has signed up for up to 12 more newbuildings at two Chinese yards, extending an ordering run that has spread across dry bulk, product and chemical tankers. The Ren Yuanlin-led company has signed for six firm plus four optional 64,500 dwt ultramax bulkers at Jingjiang Nanyang Shipbuilding. A separate deal covers …
4 September 2026
Jenifer Chatting and her husband, Luke, at home. Jenifer was diagnosed with liver damage after taking marijuana-based sleep pills. Stephen Swofford/The Denver Gazette In March 2022, Colorado public health officials started getting startling reports of liver damage tied to a new marijuana-based sleep aid that had quickly become a top seller in the state. But it wasn’t until June 2023, nearly 15 months later, that the state’s Marijuana Enforcement Division would warn consumers that the danger had become so serious that the manufacturer had halted production of the sleep pills, called 1906 Midnight Drops, after more reports of “acute liver injury.” The delay highlights a slew of weaknesses in the system for protecting consumers from hazardous products in the nation’s first regulated recreational marijuana market.
4 September 2026
Seko Logistics global chief commercial officer Brian Bourke is leaving the company after more than 14 years, and is set to launch his own consultancy. Mr Bourke announced that today would be his final day at the US-headquartered forwarder, describing the decision to leave as a difficult one. “It has been quite a ride,” he said. “With all of the ups and downs and Covid in between, we had grown a lot as an organisation and we truly did ... The post Seko commercial chief Brian Bourke departs after 14 years appeared first on The Loadstar .
4 September 2026
A piece of legislation working its way through the House of Lords right now could hand British ministers the authority to order transport and logistics operators to remove technology from vendors deemed a national security risk. Most of those operators, if pressed, probably could not tell you exactly whose kit is sitting inside their operational technology stack. The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill completed its passage through the Commons on June ... The post New UK cyber bill to force logistics operators to rip out their tech? appeared first on The Loadstar .
4 September 2026
Chinese chemical tanker owner Nanjing Shenghang Shipping is scaling up its fleet renewal programme with plans to spend CNY994. 8m ($148m) on six 13,500 dwt stainless-steel chemical and product tanker newbuildings. The Shenzhen-listed company has lined up China Merchants Shipbuilding Industry Group Nanjing Shipyard for the series, with each vessel priced at CNY165. 8m ($24. 7m), including tax.
4 September 2026
COSCO, the world’s largest shipowner by fleet size, has strongly rejected allegations that its commercial vessels are being used to collect military intelligence for Beijing. The Chinese state-controlled group issued a statement after Reuters reported that two senior US administration officials believe COSCO ships carry concealed signals-intelligence equipment capable of intercepting military communications near coastlines …
