China Container Volumes Reset the Bar as Shanghai and Ningbo-Zhoushan pass 90M TEU
Despite trade tensions and policy noise, China’s box volumes are still climbing. Shanghai has crossed the 50 million TEU mark for 2025 a month earlier than last year, while Ningbo-Zhoushan has passed 40 million...
Oceanology International 2026 (London) Review
London’s blue-tech community sets the table in March 2026. Oceanology International brings ocean scientists, subsea engineers, navies, energy developers, and autonomous systems builders into one hall to compare tools, share data, and plan real...
Ammonia for Ships Made Simple: 2026 Update
Ammonia has moved from whiteboard idea to real metal in the water. By early 2025 there were hundreds of ammonia-fuelled or “ammonia-ready” vessels in the orderbook, mostly carriers and bulkers, with the first deep-sea...
Capesize Earnings Break $45,000 As Year-End Tightness Bites
Capesize earnings have surged to their strongest levels in roughly two years, with the Baltic C5TC benchmark jumping around 16% in a single day to just under $45,000 per day and more than triple...
Alicia Bots Review: Clean Hull Guarantee
Biofouling eats fuel and CII headroom every day a hull sits even slightly dirty, and Alicia Bots is pitching something very specific into that gap: shipboard robots that groom the hull and cargo holds...
Zodiac Maritime lines up $1.6bn VLCC and Boxship Wave at Jiangsu New Hantong
Eyal Ofer’s Zodiac Maritime has committed to a multi segment newbuilding program of about $1.6 billion at China’s Jiangsu New Hantong Ship Heavy Industry, covering crude and container capacity for delivery from the second...
The New Chokepoint Map: 9 Flashpoints Every Shipowner Watches Before Fixing a Voyage
Moving in to 2026 the “chokepoint map” is no longer a theory exercise. Before every long-haul fixture, owners and chartering desks are weighing very real trade-offs between Red Sea transits, Cape detours, war-risk premiums,...
Pirates: LPG Crew Kidnapping off Equatorial Guinea revives Gulf of Guinea Piracy Risk
A Portugal-flagged LPG carrier, CGas Saturn, was boarded by armed pirates about 50 nautical miles west of Mbini, Equatorial Guinea, while sailing toward Malabo. Security reports indicate that most of the crew were taken...
Norsepower Review: Lower Fuel Bills and Emissions on the Same Routes
Norsepower is one of the more visible attempts to make wind-assist a normal line item on a fuel and emissions plan, not a nostalgia project. From its base in Helsinki, the company installs tall...
Black Sea Risk Escalates As Kremlin Floats Retaliation On Allied Shipping
Recent statements from Moscow have pushed Black Sea risk up a notch. The Kremlin has condemned a surge of attacks on Russian commercial vessels as “piracy” and warned it may consider retaliatory measures against...
Smart Shore Power Made Simple: 2026 Update
Smart shore power is the quiet part of the energy transition that sits between the ship and the city. Instead of running auxiliary engines in port, the vessel plugs into a high-capacity electrical connection....
Wind Sails to be Deployed on Supertankers in 2028: Idemitsu Bets On Norsepower VLCC Pair
Idemitsu Tanker has ordered two methanol ready VLCC newbuilds in Japan that will each carry a pair of Norsepower rotor sails from delivery at the end of 2028, marking the first time VLCCs will...
South Africa’s cartel case shakes Asia–Africa box trades as Eight Liner Giants Face GRI probe
South Africa’s Competition Commission has sent a decade-long price-fixing case to the Competition Tribunal that targets the local units of eight major container lines. Regulators say the carriers coordinated general rate increases on routes...
Ship Finance Shifts as Leasing Multilaterals and Blue Bonds Rebalance Capital
Recent announcements from Chinese leasing houses, Indian policymakers, multilateral banks and bond markets all point in the same direction, capital is still available for shipping, but it is becoming more segmented and more demanding....
Ship Recycling Facing Weak Prices and Tough Rules
Ship recyclers are ending 2025 in a strange mix of tight supply and weak pricing. Subcontinent yards in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are struggling to keep offers near 400 dollars per LDT as steel...
Amogy Review: Turning Ammonia Into Clean Power
Amogy sits in the “fuel tank of the future” bucket: instead of asking shipowners to wait for green hydrogen or giant batteries, they use liquid ammonia, crack it into hydrogen on board, and feed...
Turkey’s Quiet Pivot On Russian Oil Shakes Up Med Crude Trades
Turkey has sharply cut its purchases of Russia’s flagship Urals crude in November, trimming volumes by around 100,000 barrels per day to about 200,000 bpd, according to Kpler and LSEG data. That is a...
Air Lubrication Systems Made Simple: 2026 Update
Air lubrication systems turn the flat bottom of a big ship into a moving carpet of bubbles. Instead of dragging steel through dense water, the hull rides on a thin air layer, which cuts...
Methanol’s Big Test: DNV Says The Fuel Is Ready, But The Numbers Still Hurt
DNV’s new white paper on methanol fuel makes a simple but important point for shipowners: technically, methanol is now a workable, scalable fuel for deep-sea ships, with engines and systems at high readiness and...
War Risk Insurance Surges For Black Sea Voyages
War risk insurance costs for Black Sea voyages have moved up again after Ukrainian naval drones hit the sanctioned tankers Kairos and Virat on their way to Novorossiysk. Brokers report per-voyage war premiums for...
IMO’s Updated Cyber Guidelines: 10 Practical Changes Shipping Companies Can’t Ignore in 2026
Most shipping companies now “tick the box” on cyber in their SMS, but the IMO’s updated Guidelines on Maritime Cyber Risk Management quietly raised the bar. The new version makes it much clearer that...
ZeroNorth Review: Reports into Day-to-Day Recommendations
ZeroNorth is one of the data engines sitting behind “how fast, on what route, and at what fuel price” for a lot of modern fleets. From its Copenhagen headquarters and regional hubs in Athens,...
MTB Marine Americas 2026: Fill Your Fleet Support Gaps
Two days, one room, and a calendar full of 20-minute meetings that actually matter. MTB Marine Americas 2026 brings fleet managers, superintendents, and senior buyers face to face with vetted suppliers in Rio, so...
Black Sea Risk Repriced: Ukraine’s Drone War Puts Shadow Fleet And CPC Exports In The Crosshairs
Ukraine has moved its Black Sea campaign into a new phase. Naval drones have now hit two sanctioned shadow fleet tankers heading to Novorossiysk and damaged key infrastructure at the Caspian Pipeline Consortium terminal...
Maritime OT Cybersecurity Made Simple: 2026 Update
Maritime OT cybersecurity is basically the safety net for the things that actually move the ship: ECDIS, DP, main engine controls, power management, cargo systems and all the gateway gear that connects them. As...
OPEC+ Holds The Line: Pause On 2026 Oil Hikes Keeps Bunkers In A Narrow Range
OPEC+ ministers met Sunday and chose to keep their existing production plan in place, confirming that there will be no fresh output increases in the first quarter of 2026. The group has already brought...
Green Corridors Multiply as Cost Wall Slows Real Zero Emission Routes
The latest progress report from the Getting to Zero Coalition and Global Maritime Forum shows green shipping corridors growing to 84 active initiatives worldwide, with 25 new routes launched this year and four now...
Signs of a Controlled to Suez / Red Sea
Improved security signals and a fragile Gaza ceasefire have eased Red Sea attack risk, and Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority is actively inviting carriers to move back from the Cape of Good Hope to the...
SteelCorr Review: The Digital Paint Report for Ships
SteelCorr sits right where paint maintenance, crew workload and ESG targets meet. Based in Dubai’s DMCC district, they combine an AI-powered “Digital Paint Report” app with non-sparking surface prep tools so ship managers can...
AI is Unlikely to Kill These 22 Maritime Jobs – It May Make Them Wildly More Valuable by 2030
In every serious scenario for “AI in shipping,” the same conclusion keeps coming back: the tech changes how people work, but it doesn’t remove the need for human judgment in high-risk, high-value parts of...