Trelleborg Marine & Infrastructure Review: Quiet hardware that protects ships and berths
Trelleborg Marine & Infrastructure sits at the “hardware that quietly keeps ports running” layer of shipping. From its Dubai headquarters, it designs and supplies fenders, docking and mooring systems, navigation aids, buoyancy and sealing...
Yangzijiang Maritime Loads Up on Forward Tonnage With a 16 Ship Newbuild Slate
Yangzijiang Maritime is scaling its asset-accumulation play with up to 16 newbuilds across bulk and tanker segments, using a mix of firm orders and options at multiple Chinese yards. The headline for the market...
TOC Americas 2026
TOC Americas 2026 shifts the conversation to the Caribbean gateway of Cartagena. If you work in ports, terminals, or the container supply chain, this is the kind of event where practical operator pain points...
Iran Port Approaches Go Cautious: Offshore Holding Builds as Navigation Interference Spikes
A cluster of commercial ships is reported holding at anchor outside Iran’s port limits as U.S.–Iran tensions rise, turning routine arrivals into a higher-friction operation. The near-term shipping impact is practical and immediate: longer...
Shipping Risk Repriced Across Three Fronts in 48 Hours
In the last two days, shipping has been hit by a fast-moving stack of shocks that all push in the same direction: more friction per voyage. In the Black Sea, drone strikes on tankers...
Iran Ports “Pause” Shows Up in AIS
Ship-tracking and shipping sources indicate dozens of commercial vessels anchored outside Iranian port limits as U.S.–Iran tensions rose, a behavior shift that can quickly translate into schedule risk (waiting time), tighter approvals, and higher...
Maritime Compliance Penalties Ranked: Fines, Detention, and Off-Hire Exposure
Compliance rarely blows up because someone forgot a checklist. It blows up when a rule turns into a cash event: a port hold that eats days, a forced corrective action you can’t postpone, a...
U.S. China Trade Weakness Forces a 2026 Network Reset
A fresh project44 datapoint is putting U.S.–China demand weakness back into 2026 network planning conversations: the report pegs U.S. imports from China down 28% year over year and U.S. exports to China down 38%...
AI Machine Vision on Ships: 2026 Guide
AI machine vision on ships is shifting from “nice to have cameras” to a practical bridge and operations layer: automated detection of small targets, floating objects, and developing close-quarters situations, plus better watchkeeping support...
China Starts Penalizing Starlink Use in Its Waters
Chinese maritime authorities have begun issuing penalties after finding vessels using unapproved LEO satcom (widely reported as Starlink) inside Chinese jurisdictional waters, with the Ningbo case framed as a first-of-its-kind enforcement action and clubs/correspondents...
Asyad’s VLCC trio at Hanwha as forward supply grows, sentiment shifts
Asyad Shipping has signed contracts for three VLCC newbuilds at Hanwha Ocean, adding another meaningful slug of crude-tanker capacity to the 2028–2029 delivery window. It is still “paper” tonnage today, but orders like this...
Warrants, Not Warnings: U.S. Preps a Bigger Vessel-Seizure Wave in Venezuela’s “Grey” Tanker Trade
The U.S. is reported to have moved beyond one-off interdictions and into a broader court-driven campaign: filing civil forfeiture actions and seizure warrants aimed at dozens of tankers linked to Venezuelan crude movements. The...
Breakbulk Americas 2026 Review
Breakbulk Americas 2026 is Houston’s three-day meet-up for project cargo and breakbulk logistics, built around real routing, capacity, and execution conversations. If you move heavy-lift, OOG, or industrial cargo across the Americas, this is...
NAVTOR Review: Turning bridge admin into fleet intelligence
NAVTOR sits in the “digital bridge and shore room” category: they plug charts, routes, performance data and digital logbooks into a single ecosystem so navigators and ops teams are looking at the same picture....
Iran Unrest Reprices Gulf Risk
On January 13, 2026, crude jumped more than 2% as markets priced a higher chance of Iranian export disruption after President Trump escalated rhetoric around Iran’s protests (including a 25% tariff threat on countries...
Chartering Tankers: Costs, Risks, and Profits
Chartering tankers in 2026 is less about “getting a rate” and more about managing a moving cost stack: hire, bunkers, canal/port friction, insurance and war-risk adders, and (if you touch Europe) carbon-linked costs that...
Black Sea War-Risk Repriced
Reported naval-drone strikes on two sanctioned tankers heading to Novorossiysk were followed by firmer war-risk insurance quotes for Black Sea voyages, with underwriters widening the risk range and speeding up review cycles for exposed...
Cable Management Systems for Ships (CMS): 2026 Guide
Cable Management Systems (CMS) are the “last 30 meters” technology that makes shore power practical. You can have a fully compliant shore connection on paper, but if the cable handling is slow, heavy, or...
Iran frees St. Nikolas quietly as the two-year detention ends without fanfare
Iran appears to have released the Greek-owned Suezmax St. Nikolas, which it seized in January 2024, after a maritime monitoring service reported the release on January 12, 2026. The low-profile nature of the release...
SMM 2026 Review: Hamburg’s ship tech week that sets agendas
SMM 2026 is Hamburg’s flagship week for shipbuilding, machinery, and marine technology. If you want one place where owners, yards, class, OEMs, and solution providers compare what is actually install-ready, what is scaling, and...
China-Linked VLCCs Hit Reverse: Venezuela-to-Asia Liftings Stall as Risk and Routing Reprice
Two China-flagged VLCCs that had been heading toward Venezuela to load crude linked to China debt-repayment flows were reported to have turned back toward Asia based on ship-tracking data, a fresh sign that the...
CargoKite Review: Wind-first shipping, built as a new ship class
CargoKite is betting that the next big step-change in shipping will not come from a slightly better fuel, but from a different ship concept: smaller, wind-driven “micro-ships” that use large kites as primary propulsion,...
Red Sea routing: “test transits” are creeping back in
“Test transits” are a cautious, limited return of some liner services and individual voyages through the Red Sea/Suez routing after a long avoidance period, driven by improving (but still uncertain) security and insurance conditions—without...
Mercuria Adds More Dry Bulk Muscle in China
Mercuria is being linked to another sizable round of newbuild ordering in China, adding forward dry-bulk lift into the 2028 timeframe. The immediate shipping impact is not extra capacity today, but a clearer replacement-cost...
Maersk edges back into the Red Sea and completes another Bab el-Mandeb transit
Maersk confirmed that the U.S.-flagged Maersk Denver (voyage 552W, MECL service) transited the Bab el-Mandeb Strait into the Red Sea on Jan 11–12, 2026, using heightened safety measures and direct customer communications. Maersk also...
Sanctions Enforcement at Sea Escalation
Sanctions enforcement at sea is tightening again: more vessels linked to sanctioned trade are being identified, flagged, re-flagged, or physically intercepted, and the knock-on effects are showing up in insurance, port access, banking, and...
Top 8 Ways EU ETS Changes Voyage Economics in 2026
EU ETS gets more “real-money” in 2026: operators are settling a larger surrender obligation (70% of 2025 verified emissions) on a hard deadline, while the scope expands to additional greenhouse gases and the rules...
Iran Pulls Commercial Shipping Into the Target Picture
Iran has pushed the shipping risk conversation into the open: senior Iranian messaging now frames U.S. ships and shipping-linked nodes as potential targets if Washington launches a military attack, widening the perceived exposure from...
Venezuela Barrels Back in Play as Traders Line Up Cargoes and Tanker Logistics Rebuild Under Pressure
Venezuelan crude is re-entering the market in a messy, high-friction way: traders are actively marketing cargoes for forward delivery while operators try to stitch together liftings from aging terminals, tight loading slots, and floating/onshore...
Navalshore 2026 (Marintec South America)
Navalshore 2026 is Rio’s big maritime industry week for Latin America. If you want to see what yards, OEMs, offshore support players, ports, and service suppliers are prioritizing right now, this is the kind...