$2B Venezuela Crude Pivot Talk: U.S. Ports Back in the Picture
A proposed U.S.-bound lane for Venezuelan crude is already forcing a re-think of Atlantic positioning and compliance throughput. The key shipping question…
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Marinera Escort Escalation Puts Shadow Fleet Risk Back on the Radar
The pursuit of the tanker Marinera has escalated from an enforcement chase into a state-signaling episode after reporting said Russia dispatched naval…
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MSC keeps buying as secondhand spree tightens charter supply while rates cool
Fresh market reporting continues to link MSC to steady secondhand acquisitions across sizes, including mid-size ships that matter for weekly network coverage.…
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V.Group Absorbs Njord to Scale Fuel-Saving Tech Across Managed Fleets
Ship management is becoming a bigger lever in decarbonization because it sits where day-to-day operating decisions get made. V.Group has now bought…
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Venezuela’s Tanker Trade Splits in Two Lanes
Venezuela’s seaborne oil picture is now running in two parallel lanes: a narrow, U.S.-authorized flow where a Chevron-chartered cargo has resumed loading…
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Busan to Rotterdam on the Northern Sea Route Goes from Talk to Trial
South Korea is keeping the Northern Sea Route container conversation alive with a state-backed trial voyage plan that would run a 3,000…
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Russia’s Arctic LNG Winter Problem as Too Few Ice-Capable Carriers to Keep Cadence
Recent reporting on Russia’s sanctioned Arctic LNG logistics highlights a hard winter constraint: ice-class LNG carriers are limited, and when that capacity…
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Scorpio Locks In Five Years of LR2 Cover at $29,000 a Day
Scorpio Tankers has agreed to time charter-out two of its LR2 product tankers, STI Rose and STI Alexis (both 2015-built), on five-year…
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Venezuela’s “Dark Mode” Tanker Departures Put Caribbean Trading Back on Edge
A fresh disruption is rippling through Caribbean tanker routing and compliance: after days of exports slowing to a crawl amid U.S. pressure,…
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Aground After a Drone Hit: Shadow-Fleet Tanker Qendil Tests Turkey’s Response Playbook
The sanctioned, Oman-flagged tanker Qendil ran aground off Turkey near Bozcaada after drifting from an anchorage, weeks after being reported as damaged…
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Baltic subsea cable hits are reshaping the operating rules in the region
A fresh run of Baltic Sea undersea cable incidents is pushing the conversation from “repairs and resilience” to “movement scrutiny and attribution.”…
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Skandi Commander Lands Four-Year Petrobras Award as DOF Adds Another $150m Slice of Brazil Backlog
DOF has locked in a fresh long-term win in Brazil: a four-year Petrobras charter for the ROV support vessel Skandi Commander, valued…
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Jinjiang Shipping lines up a 4 + 4 feeder newbuild program
Jinjiang Shipping has signaled a measured expansion plan, seeking to order four 1,800 TEU “Bangkokmax” boxships with options for four more, backed…
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COSCO’s next heavylift bet: Four 40,000 dwt MPP newbuilds locked in at Chengxi
COSCO Shipping Specialized Carriers (SSE: 600428) is pushing further into the project-cargo and wind-energy logistics lane, approving four 40,000 dwt multi-purpose heavy-lift…
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Painted Flag, Real Consequences: the Tanker Chase now has a Diplomatic edge
For nearly two weeks, a rust-streaked tanker chased across the Caribbean and into the open Atlantic has turned into a floating test…
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Jinjiang’s Bangkokmax plan: a new intra-Asia capacity block on the drawing board
Jinjiang Shipping has put a fresh fleet expansion on the table: a board-approved plan to build four 1,800 TEU “Bangkokmax” containerships, with…
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Russia Strikes Ukraine’s Black Sea Gateways with Reports of Hitting Wheat Ships as They Enter Port
Russia launched waves of drones against Ukraine’s Odesa-region port infrastructure, with officials saying the Black Sea ports of Pivdennyi and Chornomorsk were…
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Six Ultramax, One Financing Play as Seacon Rewrites Its 2027 Bulk Pipeline
Seacon Shipping is taking over six ultramax newbuilding contracts and pairing them with long-term leaseback financing, effectively locking in a 2027 delivery…
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DHT trims older VLCC tonnage with sale of two 2007-built giants
DHT Holdings has agreed to sell two 2007-built VLCCs, DHT China and DHT Europe, for a combined 101.6 million dollars, crystallising a…
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LNG Trade Just Stepped Up: 2025’s Biggest Export Jump in Three Years
Global LNG exports in 2025 grew at their fastest pace in about three years, driven mainly by new North American supply ramping…
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