Tanker Market Suddenly Turns Lower as Record VLCC Rates Start Falling
The first meaningful pullback has appeared in the extraordinary crude-tanker rally that pushed VLCC earnings above $1 million per day. Baltic Exchange…
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Iran Names 124 Ships It Could Detain or Seize in Hormuz
Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority has expanded its so-called Non-Compliance List to 124 vessels, with Lloyd’s List identifying 43 additions since the…
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Drewry WCI Rebounds 3% to $4,485 as Asia-Europe Rates End 13-Week Slide
Drewry’s World Container Index rose 3% to $4,485 per 40-foot container on Thursday, October 15, reversing three consecutive weekly declines as Asia-Europe…
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The Black Sea Safe Lane Is Starting to Disappear
ShipUniverse Black Sea Safety Stress Report At Least 30 Sailors Dead or Missing in 10 Days: Is the Black Sea Becoming Too…
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Iran Is Slipping LPG and Jet Fuel Cargoes Through the U.S. Naval Blockade
Iran has succeeded in moving at least eight LPG tanker cargoes totaling about 4.1 million barrels out of the Gulf of Oman…
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Top 10 Shipyard Robots You’ll Probably See Before 2030
Shipyard Robotics 2030 Deployment Board Ten machines moving into shipbuilding Welding robots are already moving through assembly halls. Magnetic crawlers are stripping…
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HMM Bets $1.62 Billion on 12 More Containerships as Global Capacity Keeps Growing
HMM’s board approved KRW2.1678 trillion ($1.617 billion) of additional containership investment on October 15, covering eight newly ordered 13,000-TEU vessels plus four…
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Beyond Maersk: A.P. Moller Capital Is Quietly Building a Global Port Portfolio
A.P. Moller Capital agreed on October 15 to acquire 100% of Singapore-based Portek International from Mitsui through its Emerging Markets Infrastructure Fund…
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Why Cruise Lines Are Building Resorts Instead of Just Ships
ShipUniverse Cruise Destination Economics Report Cruise Lines May Eventually Make More Money on Land Than at Sea A passenger steps off the…
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Marine Biofuel Sales Collapse 47% as Shipping Waits for IMO Rules
Marine biofuel demand has reversed sharply at the world’s largest bunkering hub. Singapore sold about 603,000 tonnes of marine biofuel from January…
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Which Navies Are Growing and Which Are Shrinking? The 2035 Global Fleet Outlook
ShipUniverse Naval Decision Report China Builds, Britain Shrinks, America Waits Every major navy can point to a new frigate, destroyer or submarine…
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UK Ring-Fences Critical Submarine Supplier in £225M U.S. Takeover
The UK government has approved Fairbanks Morse Defense’s acquisition of Truflo Marine under the National Security and Investment Act, but only subject…
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Drone War Reaches NATO Waters: Four Merchant Ships Targeted Overnight
Four merchant ships were targeted in the western Black Sea during the October 14-15 overnight period, including vessels inside the territorial waters…
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Airbus Is About to Move Aircraft Parts Across the Atlantic With Six Giant Sails
Airbus’s next-generation transatlantic cargo ship has completed installation of six 35-meter-high Norsepower rotor sails in Shanghai and is preparing for sea trials…
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The 10 Most Expensive Ways to Decarbonize a Ship
Maritime Decarbonization Capital Stress Test From $1 Million to $600 Million How Much Does Green Shipping Cost? LNG conversion, methanol, ammonia, batteries,…
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Seven Seafarers Missing After Two Tanker Fires Inside Romanian Waters Near Sulina
Two chemical tankers suffered fires overnight near the Romanian entrance to the Danube, placing a new maritime emergency directly inside the territorial…
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U.S. Proposes $200,000 Fees on Spanish Ships and Restrictions on $3.1B of Imports
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has formally proposed charging $200,000 each time a Spanish-flagged vessel enters a U.S. port from a foreign…
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Top 10 Most Expensive Commercial Ships Being Built Right Now
ShipUniverse Shipbuilding Cost Report From $333 Million Containerships to $4 Billion FPSOs A $333 million containership sounds expensive until it is parked…
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UN Warns Hormuz Shipping Breakdown Could Trigger Food Crisis as Fertilizer Flows Remain Near Zero
A United Nations plan to create a protected fertilizer corridor through the Strait of Hormuz remains stalled as the next major planting…
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The Biggest Bets Cruise Lines Are Making With Billions of Dollars
ShipUniverse Cruise Capital Allocation Report Why Cruise Lines Are Buying Islands Terminals Resorts and More Ships Cruise companies are no longer betting…
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