Northern Sea Route 2025: More Voyages, Same Hard Limits
Arctic shipping activity along Russia’s Northern Sea Route (NSR) edged higher in 2025, with more transits, more cargo, and a noticeable rise…
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Tariff Whiplash Hits LA: Strong 2025 Finish, Softer 2026 Forecast
Trade at the Port of Los Angeles is still on pace for one of its biggest years, but the month-to-month pattern has…
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Panama Canal Turns the Corner: FY2025 Transits and Revenue Rebound After Drought
After the 2023 to 2024 drought disrupted schedules and forced operating limits, the Panama Canal closed fiscal year 2025 with a clear…
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U.S. “Sanctioned Tanker” Blockade Tightens as Venezuela Sends Naval Escorts
The U.S. has escalated pressure on Venezuela’s oil trade by ordering a blockade focused on oil tankers already under U.S. sanctions moving…
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Tanker Market Shock as U.S. Targets Sanctioned Ships in Venezuela Trade
Trump’s new Venezuela move is not a broad embargo on every ship. It is a stated order to block oil tankers that…
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Crude Slips Under $60 as Peace-Talk Optimism Reprices 2026 Fuel Risk
Oil prices fell to their lowest levels since May after markets priced in a higher chance of a Russia–Ukraine peace deal. The…
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Fincantieri’s 2030 playbook: Bigger, higher-margin, and more defense-heavy
Fincantieri has approved a new 2026–2030 business plan (“F4”) targeting roughly 40% revenue growth by 2030 vs 2025, with a much bigger…
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Hapag-Lloyd Bets $500m on New Wave of Methanol Boxships
Hapag-Lloyd has signed a contract with Chinese yard CIMC Raffles for eight 4,500 TEU dual-fuel methanol container ships, a fleet renewal move…
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Containership Ordering Binge rewrites the next cycle as 2025 hits record 5.08m teu
Containership contracting in 2025 has surged to a fresh all time high, with around 633 ships totaling about 5.08m teu ordered so…
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Russia Puts Full Nuclear Icebreaker Fleet On The Line For Arctic Exports
Russia’s state operator Atomflot has confirmed that all eight of its nuclear-powered icebreakers are being deployed on Northern Sea Route lines for…
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Tankers Reverse Course After U.S. Grabs Venezuelan Cargo
A U.S. seizure of a Venezuelan crude cargo has sent an immediate chill through trades linked to Caracas. One tanker carrying Russian…
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MOL, Sinopec and Marubeni line up China Biodiesel Bunkering Push
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines has signed a memorandum of understanding with Sinopec Zhejiang Zhoushan Petroleum and Marubeni to build a long term marine…
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Third Shadow Fleet Tanker hit as Ukraine’s Drones disable Suezmax in Black Sea
‘Ukraine has confirmed a new sea-drone strike on the Comoros-flagged suezmax tanker Dashan in the Black Sea, the third attack on a…
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Poseidon Principles Invite Private Capital Into The Climate-Scored Deal Room
The Poseidon Principles are moving beyond traditional ship lenders to bring in private equity funds, hedge funds and capital markets underwriters as…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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