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...
Older Hulls, New Pressure as Aging Fleets Force Hard Choices for Shipowners
Global fleets are getting older just as ordering picks up and new recycling rules bite. Recent analysis shows container, tanker and bulk segments all carrying a heavy share of mid-life and elderly ships, while...
Biofouling Detection Sensors Made Simple: 2026 Update
Biofouling detection sensors are the early-warning system for slime and barnacles. Instead of waiting until fuel bills creep up or a sea chest chokes, they watch for the first signs of biofilm on hull...
UK locks in 78% North Sea tax as Industry Warns of 66 Billion Dollar Investment Hole
The UK government has confirmed that the Energy Profits Levy will stay in place until March 2030, keeping the headline tax rate on North Sea oil and gas profits at around 78 percent. Industry...
Marseille-Fos Triples Its Bet: €1.3bn Plan To Be South Europe’s Main Gate
The port of Marseille-Fos has signed off on a strategic plan for 2025 to 2029 that authorizes up to €1.3 billion in investments, about three times what it spent in the previous five years....
Oxford Maps a $14bn Chokepoint Bill as Narrow Sea Lanes Reshape Trade Risk
A new Oxford University study in Nature Communications puts concrete numbers on something shipowners already feel: disruptions at key maritime chokepoints affect around $192 billion of seaborne trade each year, resulting in roughly $14...
AI Voyage Optimization & Weather Routing Made Simple: 2026 Update
AI voyage optimisation is basically the “co-pilot” sitting on top of weather routing, noon reports, and charter constraints. The latest platforms take high-frequency vessel data, weather and currents, fuel and carbon prices, CII/ETS exposure...
Shadow Fleet Growth Meets Indian Gatekeeping: Dark Tankers Face Tougher Insurance Checks off Paradip
The global “shadow fleet” that moves sanctioned crude has expanded into a parallel system of older, lightly regulated tankers, with estimates suggesting that roughly 16 percent of the crude fleet tied to sanctioned trades...
Azane Fuel Solutions Review: How to Bunker Ammonia
Azane Fuel Solutions sits in the middle of the “how do we actually bunker ammonia?” question. From its base in Norway, the joint venture between Amon Maritime and ECONNECT Energy is developing turnkey shore-based...
China’s LNG Buying Slump Hits 13 months as Tonne-mile Engine Cools
China’s seaborne LNG imports are set to fall year on year for the 13th straight month in November, with Kpler data (via Bloomberg and other outlets) pointing to about 5.81 million tons of arrivals,...
3d Printing on Ships Made Simple: 2026 Update
3D printing at sea is shifting from demo pieces to real downtime savers. By 2025–26, you’ve got naval ships and early commercial trials printing repair parts on board, while joint ventures like Pelagus 3D...
MSC Moves Inland in Bangladesh with Pangaon Play
Reports indicate MSC has secured a concession to operate an inland container terminal in Bangladesh, widely described as the Pangaon facility near Dhaka. The move links the country’s main seaport flows to a river-barge...
The 25 Most Overlooked Cost Levers in Ship Operations (That Aren’t Fuel or Crew)
Most owners spend their time on day rates, bunker costs, and crew budgets, yet a lot of quiet money moves through operational decisions that rarely make it into board packs. The 25 levers below...
Belgium’s Three-day Strike Chokes Antwerp-Bruges as pilotage paused, queues build, diversions rise
Belgium’s nationwide strike (Nov 24–26) has disrupted pilotage and traffic control on the North Sea coast, halting or severely restricting ship movements at Antwerp-Bruges and nearby gateways, while road, rail, and air transport are...