Asia Europe Spot Rebound Lifts Global Container Index
Drewry’s World Container Index has inched up for a second week, rising about 2 percent to 1,957 dollars per 40 foot box as stronger Asia Europe spot rates offset renewed weakness on the Transpacific....
Gemini Cooperation Explained: What the New Container Network Means for Reliability and Ports
For years, shippers and ports have planned around unpredictable container schedules. Gemini (Maersk + Hapag-Lloyd) is one of the biggest attempts to change that, not by adding more strings, but by redesigning how cargo...
VLCC Shortage Sends Newbuild Supertankers Sprinting Empty for Crude
Refinery-fresh VLCCs that would normally start life carrying refined products out of Asia are now sailing in ballast straight to crude loading areas, as owners chase tight slots in an overheated crude market. The...
Just-in-Time Port Calls Made Simple: 2025 Update
For many ships, “port time” really starts days before arrival, drifting in approach lanes and burning fuel while waiting for a berth. Just-in-Time (JIT) port calls flip that model: ports and ships share better...
Marine Link Review: Turning Maritime Headlines into Working Insight
Marine Link is one of the leading places the industry goes to check the pulse of shipping each day: freight, newbuilds, casualties, war risk, energy, ports and policy all run through the same front...
BIMCO hard wires FuelEU and ETS risk into ship sale deals
BIMCO has adopted new FuelEU Maritime and EU ETS clauses for ship sale and purchase Memoranda of Agreement, spelling out exactly how emissions compliance obligations, costs and data are split between seller and buyer....
Thetius Review: Turning Maritime Tech Noise into Clear Decisions
Thetius sits in the “thinking layer” of maritime tech. Founded by former navigator Nick Chubb, it runs research, data tools and workshops that help owners, managers and investors decide which digital and decarbonisation projects...
Top 10 U.S. Policy Missteps that Shook Global Shipping in 2025
When shipowners talk about “policy risk” they usually mean sanctions or a warzone closing for a few weeks. In 2025 the United States added a new kind of risk to the mix with USTR...
Seized VLCC off Venezuela puts hard edge on sanctions risk for tankers
U.S. forces have boarded and seized the VLCC Skipper in international waters off Venezuela, taking control of a tanker carrying sanctioned crude after a helicopter-led operation from the carrier USS Gerald R. Ford. The...
Third Shadow Fleet Tanker Hit: Drone War Rewrites Black Sea Risk
Ukrainian sea drones have now disabled a third Russia-linked “shadow fleet” tanker in the Black Sea, following earlier strikes on the sanctioned tankers Kairos and Virat near Turkey and the latest hit on the...
AI-Powered Predictive Maintenance Systems Made Simple: 2026 Update
AI-powered predictive maintenance is the quiet glue behind a lot of “smart ship” slides right now: instead of reacting to alarms, owners are starting to stream vibration, pressure, temperature and control-system data into models...
Brussels tests how much terminal power MSC and BlackRock can hold in Barcelona
EU regulators have opened a full antitrust investigation into MSC’s terminal arm and BlackRock taking joint control of CK Hutchison’s deep sea container terminal in Barcelona. The Commission is worried the deal could push...
EU ETS Voyage Cost Lab: What Each Route Really Costs You in 2026
When shipowners talk about EU ETS costs, the conversation often stops at “X tonnes times carbon price.” In reality, the bill changes sharply by route, charterparty, and how much of a voyage is inside...
Global Trade Passes the 35 trillion dollar mark, with most of the value still moving by sea
Global trade in goods and services is on track to exceed 35 trillion dollars in 2025, around 7 percent higher than 2024 according to UNCTAD’s latest Global Trade Update. This new high comes even...
Crewdentials Review: Simplifying Crew Administration
Crewdentials is basically a digital wallet and compliance engine for crew data. Instead of certificates, IDs and sea service being scattered across inboxes and spreadsheets, it pulls everything into one structured profile for seafarers...
Autonomous Hull Cleaning Made Simple: 2026 Update
Frequent, autonomous hull cleaning is quietly becoming one of the most powerful fuel-saving tools in shipping. Small robots and robotic “skaters” are now grooming hulls in water, keeping biofouling at “just cleaned” levels and...
Ammonia Gets Bigger Tanks: China’s Gas Owners Line Up VLAC-Scale Bets
Chinese gas owner Tianjin Southwest Maritime is moving deeper into ammonia transportation with ammonia dual-fuel LPG carriers on order and a new cooperation on very large ammonia carrier designs, while Jiangnan Shipyard builds 90k-class...
Mare Safety Review: Keeping the Crew Safe and Vessels Compliant
Mare Safety sits in that tight space where “small craft” decisions quietly dictate the safety and uptime of much bigger assets. Their focus is fast rescue boats, MOB boats, daughter craft and workboats for...
CMA Shipping 2026 Review
North America’s shipping community sets its calendar in Stamford every March. CMA Shipping 2026 brings owners, charterers, financiers, class, brokers, and technology providers together for three focused days of market signals, practical sessions, the...
Canada’s Pacific LNG Era Locks In With Kitimat Phase One Complete
LNG Canada’s first phase at Kitimat has now reached full construction handover, with both liquefaction trains delivered and the plant already exporting cargoes from Canada’s west coast. That makes Canada a long term LNG...
Waste Heat Recovery System (WHRS / WHR) Made Simple: 2026 Update
Waste heat recovery is one of those unglamorous upgrades that quietly moves the needle. Big two-stroke engines still dump well over half of their fuel energy out of the funnel or into cooling water,...
China One Trillion Dollar Trade Surplus Reshapes Global Container Flows
China’s trade surplus hitting the one trillion dollar mark in 2025 is not just a macro headline. It reflects a shift in where Chinese exports are going, with softer volumes to the United States...
COSCO’s $7bn, 87-ship Megaprogram Rewires Future Capacity across Tankers, Bulk and Boxes
China COSCO Shipping has signed a framework with China State Shipbuilding Corp (CSSC) for 87 new vessels worth more than RMB 50 billion, or a little over $7 billion. The program spans ultra large...
From Carbon to Chokepoints. Here are 17 Hidden Costs Shipowners are Mispricing in 2026 Budgets
Most 2026 fleet budgets are built around fuel curves, TCE targets and OPEX lines that feel familiar, while the real risk sits in a new layer of carbon costs, chokepoint detours and compliance traps...
e1 Marine Review: Hydrogen Power at Scale
e1 Marine is trying to sidestep one of the messiest parts of the hydrogen story: how you actually get fuel-cell grade hydrogen to a working vessel. Their pitch is to reform methanol and water...
Red Sea Lane Back In Play as CMA CGM Tests Suez Return
After almost a year of widespread container diversions around the Cape of Good Hope, CMA CGM is starting to route its INDAMEX service back through the Red Sea and Suez Canal on both headhaul...
Digital Twins Made Simple: 2026 Update
Digital twins have moved from buzzword to working tool on real ships and in real ports. Into 2026, owners are using “performance twins” of hull and machinery to trim fuel use and monitor fouling,...
FSB Security Checks and Hull Dives Slow Foreign calls at Russian Ports
Russia has tightened control of foreign ships calling at its ports, with new rules that require Federal Security Service (FSB) clearance for every arrival from a foreign port and allow for mandatory underwater hull...
HD Hyundai’s $2bn India Mega-Yard Aims to Reset Global Newbuild Map
HD Hyundai is reported to be preparing a multibillion-dollar greenfield shipyard project in southern India, with planned investment around $2bn. For owners and financiers, the significance is less about one site and more about...
VLCC, Capesize, Container: Which Segments Are Really Under-Ordered Going Into 2027?
Orderbook charts in 2025 tell three different stories: VLCCs are finally rebuilding after years of near zero fleet growth, dry bulk (including Capesize) is still relatively disciplined, and container owners are sitting on a...