9 Combatant Boat Handling Upgrades That Can Sharpen Boarding Missions
Boarding and interdiction missions are increasingly exposing a simple truth about warship small boats: the limiting factor is often not the RHIB itself, but how quickly and safely the mother ship can launch, recover,...
Executive Maritime Reputation Management: Protecting Trust, Search Results, and Deal Confidence
Maritime executives are no longer judged only by fleet performance, chartering relationships, safety records, and dealmaking. They are judged across search results, sanctions chatter, port incidents, crew complaints, cyber events, litigation filings, ESG pressure,...
Technip Energies Lands Key Mozambique FLNG Scope as Coral Norte Moves Closer to Full Buildout
Technip Energies has secured a major role on Mozambique’s Coral Norte floating LNG project, winning a significant EPCIC contract together with JGC and Samsung Heavy Industries from Mozambique Rovuma Venture, the Eni-led joint venture...
8 Reefer Readiness Upgrades Container Ship Owners Should Price Before Chasing Premium Cold Chain Cargo
Cold-chain demand can look attractive from the outside, but reefer revenue is only as strong as the vessel’s weakest supporting system. The commercial trap for container ship owners is assuming reefer opportunity begins and...
Bunker Proof 9 Sampling and Custody Tools Owners Need Before Fuel Disputes Turn Costly
Marine fuel disputes usually become expensive not only because the fuel may be off specification, contaminated, unstable, or poorly compatible, but because the evidence chain is weak by the time the argument starts. The...
Houthi Threats Reignite Red Sea Shipping Risk as Israel and Iran Exchange Missiles
The Houthis have moved back toward active involvement in the regional confrontation as Israel and Iran trade direct missile fire, adding a renewed Red Sea shipping risk to an already volatile Middle East security...
Cruise Queue Tech That Can Lift Spend Without More Headcount
Cruise queue-management technology is becoming a real revenue lever because waiting time is not just a guest-satisfaction problem. It is also a spend problem. If the line can shorten or smooth dining waits, excursion...
Panama Canal Draft Cut for July Rekindles Drought Fears as Traffic Runs Near Full Use
The Panama Canal has moved back into drought-watch mode after announcing that the maximum authorized draft for Neopanamax vessels will be reduced from 50.0 feet to 49.5 feet tropical fresh water starting July 3,...
Iran Says Strait Stays Open, but New Fee Plan Leaves Owners Facing Fresh Uncertainty
Iran’s latest public position is that the Strait of Hormuz will remain open to navigation, but under new conditions that would include transit fees set under a joint Iran-Oman framework. That is the headline...
Warship Freshwater and Reverse Osmosis Upgrades That Pay Off on Long Deployments
Longer deployments make shipboard water systems feel less like background utilities and more like operational endurance equipment. Official Navy health guidance says most U.S. Navy combatants and submarines use reverse-osmosis water production plants, and...
Shipping’s 2008 Echo and 7 Signs Confidence Could Push Ordering Too Far
Shipping does not need a replay of the last great ordering trap to feel familiar. The current setup already has some of the same emotional ingredients: strong pockets of earnings, long shipyard lead times,...
Maritime AI Moves Into Daily Operations Across Fleets Claims Crews Routes and the Bridge
Maritime AI is starting to matter less as a buzzword and more as an operating layer. The clearest sign is that vendors and operators are no longer talking only about generic copilots. They are...
Drewry’s Latest Container Index Jumps as Peak Season Demand Hits Earlier and Harder
Drewry’s latest weekly World Container Index, posted on 4 June 2026, showed a sharp acceleration in container freight pricing, with the composite benchmark surging 23% week on week to $3,433 per 40ft container. Drewry...
Ship Scrapping is Turning Into a Story of Tight Supply, Tougher Rules, and a Growing Shadow-Fleet Debate
The current ship scrapping picture is not being driven by a flood of end-of-life tonnage. It is being shaped by a shortage of willing candidates, firmer operating markets in several shipping segments, and a...
Hormuz Shortages Rundown: LPG, Plastics, Aid Cargo and Fuel Costs Tighten While Europe Says Jet Fuel Is Still Available
The latest Hormuz supply picture is no longer a single crude-oil story. As the Strait of Hormuz remains heavily disrupted, shortages and near-shortages are showing up unevenly across the global economy. The most visible...
AD Ports’ $835 Million Brazil Buy Opens a New South America Grain Corridor for Abu Dhabi
AD Ports Group has agreed its largest acquisition to date by striking an $835 million deal to buy Corredor Logística e Infraestrutura, or CLI, a Brazilian agri-bulk terminal operator with major assets at Santos...
Sensor Calibration Mistakes That Can Destroy Maritime Fuel Savings Claims
Fuel savings claims are only as strong as the measurements behind them. A vessel owner may install air lubrication, premium hull coatings, propeller upgrades, shaft-power meters, fuel-flow meters, voyage optimization software, wind-assist systems, trim...
9 Electronic Bill of Lading Adoption Traps Maritime Trade Teams Should Fix Before Scale-Up
Electronic bills of lading are moving from pilot-stage ambition into real operational rollout, but adoption is still far from frictionless. DCSA says about 11% of bills of lading were issued electronically in 2025, which...
COSCO Expands LNG Shipping With a $953 Million Jiangnan Order Backed by Shell Charters
COSCO Shipping Energy Transportation has moved ahead with a new LNG carrier investment worth about RMB 6.445 billion, or roughly $953 million, ordering four 175,000 cubic meter LNG carriers at Jiangnan Shipyard through its...
Cruise Guest Tech Profit Drivers or Cyber Liability Trap
Cruise guest technology is now sitting in one of the most sensitive parts of the business because the same systems that drive onboard spending also collect, route, and depend on some of the most...
Kpler’s $1 Billion Plus Funding Deal Signals a Bigger Push Into Maritime Intelligence, Risk, and Trade Analytics
Kpler has secured a new minority strategic growth equity investment of more than $1 billion from Sixth Street, marking one of the largest recent capital moves in the maritime and commodity-data space. The company...
Hormuz Oil Flows Edge Higher as “Dark Mode” Shipping Blurs the Real Supply Picture
More oil is getting out of the Strait of Hormuz again, but the market is becoming harder to read at the same time. New reporting says exports through the chokepoint have picked up modestly...
9 Port Security Layers Against Drone Boats and Underwater Drones
Port security planning is being pushed into a new phase because the threat set is no longer limited to conventional intruders, divers, or standoff sabotage. Current signals point toward a layered defense model that...
Delfin LNG Wins Final Investment Approval, Moving Louisiana Toward the First U.S. Floating LNG Export Project
Delfin Midstream has approved the final investment decision for Delfin FLNG 1, the first floating LNG export facility to move ahead in U.S. waters, marking a new phase for offshore gas exports off Louisiana....
9 Hidden Biofouling Hotspots Shipowners Should Fix Before Small Growth Turns Into Bigger Cost
Biofouling is getting more expensive because the real drag and compliance pain often sit in niche areas, not just across the broad hull. The IMO’s 2023 biofouling guidelines say niche areas can be more...
Remote OEM Access Risks Inside Smart Ship Service Agreements
Remote diagnostics can be one of the most useful upgrades on a modern vessel. An engine maker, automation supplier, scrubber vendor, ballast system specialist, DP integrator, or bridge equipment provider may be able to...
Rising Container Rates, Gulf Disruption and Early Peak Season Pressure Reshape Shipping
Maritime logistics has tightened again over the past several days, with the latest market picture showing stress building from more than one direction at once. Drewry’s newest container data shows the World Container Index...
Ichthys LNG Strike Delays Australian Cargo Loadings as Labor Dispute Reopens Supply Risk
Loadings at Australia’s Ichthys LNG project were delayed after strike action by workers disrupted terminal operations and caused at least one scheduled cargo to miss its departure window. The most visible impact was on...
8 Cruise Food Waste Technologies That Could Quietly Save Millions
Cruise food-waste reduction is turning into one of the clearest procurement stories in the sector because the gains are now measurable, operational, and increasingly proven at fleet scale. Carnival Corporation said it achieved a...
MSC Ship Hit Off Iraq Raises New Security Questions Around Umm Qasr and Northern Gulf Trade
MSC says its MSC Sariska V was struck by two projectiles while departing Iraq’s Umm Qasr on June 1, with the first hit occurring while the pilot was still onboard and the second striking...