The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) invited Danish shipping giant Maersk to work with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in addressing the financial…
Athens-based tanker owner and operator TOP Ships has reached a time charter agreement with Shell Tankers Singapore Private Limited for one of its product/chemical tankers….
Philadelphia-based Philly Shipyard (PSI) delivered the second of two Aloha-class containerships to Hawaii-based Matson Navigation Company in a ceremony on March 28. Matson received the…
Norway-based bulk ship operator Belships has concluded a contract for a 58,700 dwt bulk carrier from Wenaas Shipping AS. The Supramax bulker was built at…
The Hapag-Lloyd container ship Dublin Express, that spilled a fuel oil in a New York container terminal, suffered a hole in its hull. During the…
Three tons of drugs were seized over from a panga-style vessel by the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO). A…
Dutch company Visser Shipping has signed a contract with Value Maritime to outfit its three 9.0 MW containerships with hybrid-ready scrubber systems. The contract also…
Euronav, Belgian tanker owner, has selected a new CEO following a search and assessment process. The current CFO Hugo De Stoop would succeed Paddy Rodgers…
The UK-registered RoRo passenger ferry Red Falcon collided with a privately-owned motor cruiser off Southampton, England, due to poor navigational watchkeeping practic. On September 29,…
GasLog, Monaco-based LNG carrier owner and operator, has entered into a 12-year fixed-term charter with Japan’s JERA for a newbuild LNG carrier on the basis…
Financial performance of Norwegian shipping company Torvald Klaveness was improved after consolidating its combination carrier activities in 2018. Klaveness delivered a profit before tax (EBT) of…
Aurora Spirit was launched by Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI). This is the first of four shuttle tankers which are building for Bermuda-based Teekay Offshore Partners….
Cruise line Princess Cruises and shipbuilder Fincantieri has concluded today final contracts for the construction of two next-generation 175,000-ton cruise ships. The newbuilds would be…
Italian Port of Trieste and China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) have signed an agreement that will enable Italian products of small and medium companies to…
APL, Singapore-based shipping company, has decided to provide free shipping to The Ocean Cleanup, a non-government, non-profit organization working to develop advanced technologies to rid…
Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co. has concluded an agreement with ABB on suppling of power and propulsion package for the Asian country’s first domestically-built cruise ship….
The US Treasury has imposed sanctions two Chinese shipping companies, Dalian Haibo, International Freight Co and Liaoning Danxing International Forwarding Co, over claims they helped…
A 147-meter Ro-Ro ship was ordered by the Italian Railway Network from a temporary joint venture composed of Officine Meccaniche Navali, T. Mariotti, and Fonderie…
A number of companies have recently joined The Clean Shipping Alliance 2020 (CSA 2020), increasing the organisation’s membership to 35 shipowners operating a combined fleet…
In Australia, a new Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) and CSIRO collaborative study has found that balloons are the highest-risk plastic debris item for…
