UK P&I and TT Club explore Giant Transport Mutual: cover, deductibles and renewal leverage in play
UK P&I Club and TT Club have confirmed that their boards are in early talks on a potential merger that would combine one of the largest ship liability mutuals with a major port and...
Maersk Stays Cautious on Suez Return as Red Sea Risks Linger
Maersk says it will resume using the Red Sea and Suez route only when conditions allow and has not set a firm date, despite signals from Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority about an early-December partial...
Anemoi Marine Technologies Review: Rotor Sails With Real-World Numbers
Wind is finally turning into a real line item on the bunker bill, and Anemoi Marine Technologies is one of the firms turning that wind into propulsion hardware shipowners can actually deploy. From its...
Maran Tankers Books Four VLCCs at Hanwha Ocean As Orders Keep Flowing
Maran Tankers has moved for four very large crude carriers at Hanwha Ocean. Hanwha’s exchange filing confirms a KRW 757.7 billion contract for four VLCCs with deliveries by November 2028, while trade press attributes...
Methanol as Fuel for Ships Made Simple: 2026 Update
Methanol is moving from conference slide to real bunker choice, especially in the container segment. Driven by the IMO 2023 greenhouse gas strategy and expected fuel standards, owners are ordering dual fuel ships that...
Breakbulk Middle east 2026 Dates: Get Ready for Breakbulk Week Dubai
Dubai’s project-cargo marketplace returns early 2026. Across two packed days, EPCs, shippers, forwarders, carriers, ports, and heavy-lift specialists meet in one hall to compare routes, capacity, risk, and 2026–27 bid calendars, where Middle East...
Coal Shipments Hit a 23-Year Low as Steel Output Slips
Coal cargoes into advanced economies are set to fall about 2% year over year in 2025 to a 23-year low, according to BIMCO. Weaker coking-coal demand from softer steel production and more power from...
Iran’s offshore barrel build: Floating Iranian oil hits highest since 2023
Iranian “oil on water” has surged to roughly 52 million barrels, the most since May 2023, with about half of those barrels parked off Malaysia. Tracker data links the jump to softer Chinese intake...
Singapore Locks Methanol Supply for 2026 with Clearer Fuel Path at the World’s Top Bunkering Hub
Singapore has appointed three licensed suppliers to start marine methanol bunkering from January 1, 2026, setting a firmer foundation for dual-fuel ships to lift in the world’s busiest refuelling port. The move follows successful...
2026 Port Cost Benchmark Book: What a “Normal” PDA Looks Like by Vessel Type and Region
Port costs are one of the last big spend areas in shipping that still get approved with too little context. In 2026, with freight margins more sensitive to carbon, fuel spreads, and schedule pressure,...
Macquarie moves on Qube in a $11.6B play that could reshape Australia’s logistics map
Macquarie Asset Management has lobbed a conditional, non-binding cash proposal to acquire Qube at A$5.20 per share, valuing the integrated ports and intermodal operator at an enterprise value of about A$11.6 billion. Qube has...
LA Gateway Jolt: ONE ‘Henry Hudson’ Fire Disrupts, Then Eases as Vessel Is Towed Offshore
A container fire aboard the ONE Henry Hudson triggered an overnight hazmat response at the Port of Los Angeles, with shelter-in-place orders for San Pedro and Wilmington and partial terminal slowdowns. By the next...
HMM locks in eight 13,400-TEU LNG dual-fuel boxships at HD Hyundai for ~$1.46B
HMM has ordered eight 13,400-TEU LNG dual-fuel containerships from HD Hyundai yards in Korea, a deal valued around $1.46 billion. Public details indicate the ships are LNG dual-fuel, split across HD Hyundai yards, with...
U.S. Port Outlook Darkens for 2026 on Tariffs and Policy Risks
Moody’s says the U.S. ports sector is heading into a tougher 2026 as tariff uncertainty and softer macro growth weigh on import demand and planning. A one-year U.S.–China fee pause offers only temporary relief;...
The 2026 Green Premium: Who Pays and Who Gets Paid For Cleaner Ships – And Why
By 2026 the green premium in shipping has turned into a real cost line that someone has to absorb. On one side, large cargo and passenger ships trading with Europe are pulled into the...
Registry Shake-Up as Owners Migrate from Hong Kong to Singapore
A growing number of owners are shifting away from Hong Kong registration and toward Singapore, citing policy and cost uncertainty tied to recent U.S.–China trade frictions and port-fee risks. Singapore’s registry has logged a...
Shadow Fleet Squeeze as U.S. expands Iran oil sanctions
U.S. Treasury announced a new sanctions package targeting Sepehr Energy Jahan’s export network, with entities across the UAE, Panama, Liberia, India, Germany, and Greece, and identified six more tankers as blocked property. Officials say...
10 Port Call Bottlenecks That Quietly Destroy TCE (And How Operators Fix Them)
When a ship misses its ideal berth window because a document was not ready or a surveyor did not get clear instructions, nobody sees a dramatic headline in the log. It just appears later...
Deeply Discounted Russian LNG Floods China with more liftings, more paperwork
China is snapping up sanctioned Russian LNG at heavy discounts, ending months of commercial limbo for Arctic LNG 2 and re-wiring trade and compliance patterns. Since August, Novatek has moved 14 cargoes to China...
Talara Released in Hormuz as IRGC Lets Crew Go, Cargo Reported Offloaded
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard seized the Marshall Islands–flagged products tanker Talara on November 14 in the Strait of Hormuz, then released the vessel and all 21 crew five days later. The manager said the ship...
Gulf Momentum: BOEM Moves a Second Lease Sale Toward the Calendar
The U.S. Interior’s offshore regulator has advanced a second Gulf of Mexico lease sale, signaling more acreage and multi-year project visibility for operators. For maritime stakeholders, this extends the upstream cycle: drillship demand, subsea...
Top KPIs your Fleet and Chartering Teams should be Showing you in 2026
C suites are no longer satisfied with generic “utilization is good” and “markets are volatile” updates. They want a short list of hard KPIs that show whether fleet and chartering teams are actually turning...
Tanker Newbuild Wave Looms: Orderbook at a 9-Year High
BIMCO reports the global tanker orderbook has climbed to a nine-year high by share of the fleet, signaling a multi-year supply wave. Deliveries are likely to bunch in the late-decade window, putting a ceiling...
Jetty Damage at Novorossiysk Slows Loadings and Tightens Black Sea Supply
A strike on Nov 14 damaged key berths at Novorossiysk’s Sheskharis oil harbor. Exports resumed on Nov 16, but capacity is constrained and crude loadings are now running about 2–3 days behind schedule while...
Hudong Win: Nigeria LNG’s shipping arm lines up a fresh batch of LNG carriers
Trade reporting in mid-November 2025 indicates Nigeria LNG’s shipping unit has selected China’s Hudong-Zhonghua for a new multi-ship LNG carrier program. While final ship count, specs, and delivery windows were not publicly detailed at...
15 Real AI Use Cases Ship Operators Will Pay For In 2026
AI in shipping has quietly moved from slides and pilots to real line items in OPEX and capex: owners are now paying for specific tools that shave fuel, tighten EU ETS exposure, reduce off-hire,...
LNG Shipping: New Orders, New Rules, and a Record Export Month
Near-term signals point both to tighter premium yard slots (new LNGC orders) and shifting trade flows (record U.S. exports, fresh sanctions constraints). India’s long-term procurement and UK restrictions on Russian LNG services could reshape...
Suez Signals Green Light: Canal Authority urges carriers back through the Red Sea
With security conditions improving, the Suez Canal Authority is encouraging carriers to restart Red Sea transits. A measured return would reduce Cape of Good Hope detours, shorten voyages by roughly one to two weeks...
Russian Oil Slumps as Sanctions Countdown Hits Buyer Nerves
Russia’s flagship Urals price slid to multi-year lows as refiners in India and China stepped back ahead of a November 21 U.S. deadline to wind down dealings with Rosneft and Lukoil. The drop reflects...
Dry Bulk After Geneva: How 2026 Trade Flows Could Shift for Coal, Iron Ore and Agri
Geneva Dry made one thing clear. Dry bulk is drifting into a transition phase where the three core pillars of demand will not move in lockstep. Coal looks set to give back volumes in...