The International Shipsuppliers & Services Association (ISSA) has called on the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) member states to act over unfair port access practices levied…
Four container shipping giants, Maersk, MSC, Hapag-Lloyd and Ocean Network Express, have established the Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) on April 10, 2019 in Amsterdam,…
German bremenports has reached an agreement with Icelandic partners to form a company with an aim of establishing a port and industrial location at Finnafjord….
Container volumes at Port of Oakland continued rising in the first quarter of 2019 following shippers’ attempts to stay ahead of new tariffs affecting the…
Australian shipbuilder Austal held a steel-cutting ceremony to mark the start of construction on the second 118-meter trimaran ferries for Spanish shipping firm Fred. Olsen…
Rising project cargo traffic is set to push multipurpose and heavylift shipping rates up during 2019, but prospects thereafter are muted by an expected slowdown…
European shipbuilders are launching a new initiative to develop and demonstrate a connected vessel platform under a project named Code Kilo. The project is undertaken…
Seafarers employed on Tsakos-owned vessels operated under its management arrangement with Columbia Shipmanagement will now be paid electronically as opposed to by ‘Cash-by-Master’. Under an…
Golar LNG Limited has received a firm USD 700 million underwritten financing commitment for the conversion of the floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) vessel Gimi….
UAE-based Tristar Group has placed an order for six new oil and chemical tankers at South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Mipo Dockyard. The company said that…
Piracy and armed robbery against ships in Asia dropped by 52% to only 10 incidents in the first three months of 2019, according to the…
Italian PB Tankers said it “is shocked and concerned” by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control action to add the company to a current…
Unions from across Latin America have committed to jointly providing assistance and solidarity to seafarers in distress in Central and South American ports, the International…
A large drone will be powered in Denmark to check emissions from ships in its waters and to make sure they comply with the sulphur…
The decision to include an anti-corruption agenda came at the latest meeting of the IMO’s Facilitation Committee (FAL) in response to a submission from Liberia,…
According to the official data of U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), 4 shipping companies and 9 vessels operating in the…
South Korean liner shipping companies — Sinokor Merchant Marine and Heung-A Shipping will begin integrating their container shipping service businesses next week. With the combination…
ITF is launching an operation against German shipping company Johann M. K. Blumenthal, explaining that the company’s “continue to refuse to acknowledged seafarers’ welfare and…
Swiss-Swedish technology company ABB has been concluded to deliver power and propulsion systems for Seabourn’s two new expedition cruise ships. The Seattle-based Seabourne Cruise Line…
German shipbuilding company Meyer Werft has handed over Spectrum of the Seas, the first cruise ship in the Quantum-Ultra class, to cruise line Royal Caribbean…
