BNP Paribas Ship Financing Review
BNP Paribas is the kind of bank shipowners tend to use when the goal isn’t just “get a loan,” but to line up capital, risk tools, and documentation that can hold up across cycles...
MSC keeps buying as secondhand spree tightens charter supply while rates cool
Fresh market reporting continues to link MSC to steady secondhand acquisitions across sizes, including mid-size ships that matter for weekly network coverage. The practical effect is less about one headline purchase and more about...
Arctic LNG ice-class bottleneck
Arctic LNG flows are increasingly gated by a small pool of ice-class LNG carriers and the logistics workarounds built around them. When that pool tightens (winter operations, repairs, sanctions friction), cargo timing slips, transshipment...
V.Group Absorbs Njord to Scale Fuel-Saving Tech Across Managed Fleets
Ship management is becoming a bigger lever in decarbonization because it sits where day-to-day operating decisions get made. V.Group has now bought Njord, the fuel-efficiency and decarbonization platform originally founded by Maersk Tankers, in...
Marine Cranes: Ultimate Guide (2026)
Marine cranes are one of those topics where the labels sound simple, but the buying decision is anything but. “Deck crane” can mean a light utility unit for stores, or a serious cargo-handling capability...
Venezuela’s Tanker Trade Splits in Two Lanes
Venezuela’s seaborne oil picture is now running in two parallel lanes: a narrow, U.S.-authorized flow where a Chevron-chartered cargo has resumed loading and sailed for the U.S. Gulf Coast after a short pause, and...
Green Marine “GreenTech” 2026 Review
GreenTech 2026 is a tight, working style sustainability conference where the hallway conversations are as valuable as the sessions. If you operate vessels, manage port operations, or sell solutions into shipping, this is the...
Busan to Rotterdam on the Northern Sea Route Goes from Talk to Trial
South Korea is keeping the Northern Sea Route container conversation alive with a state-backed trial voyage plan that would run a 3,000 TEU-class boxship from Busan to Rotterdam during the 2026 navigation season (reported...
Pascal Technologies Review: Air lubrication and AirHull tech for real-world savings
Pascal Technologies sits in that sweet spot where “new tech” is only useful if it turns into measurable efficiency on real hulls. Their focus is practical: use air-based hull and lubrication approaches (plus control...
Russia’s Arctic LNG Winter Problem as Too Few Ice-Capable Carriers to Keep Cadence
Recent reporting on Russia’s sanctioned Arctic LNG logistics highlights a hard winter constraint: ice-class LNG carriers are limited, and when that capacity is unavailable, exports can stall quickly as storage fills. Coverage has described...
LEO Satellite Internet for Ships (2026 Guide)
LEO satellite maritime internet is quickly turning ship connectivity from “email at sea” into something closer to an always-on office network. Going into 2026, the big shift is not just faster downloads, it’s lower...
Scorpio Locks In Five Years of LR2 Cover at $29,000 a Day
Scorpio Tankers has agreed to time charter-out two of its LR2 product tankers, STI Rose and STI Alexis (both 2015-built), on five-year deals at $29,000 per vessel per day, with the charters expected to...
Port Turnaround Time: 8 ways to improve speed and success
Ports don’t usually lose time in one big dramatic failure. They lose it in dozens of small handoff gaps: berth plans that change late, pilots and tugs that get sequenced on stale ETAs, paperwork...
Venezuela’s “Dark Mode” Tanker Departures Put Caribbean Trading Back on Edge
A fresh disruption is rippling through Caribbean tanker routing and compliance: after days of exports slowing to a crawl amid U.S. pressure, reporting now says around a dozen loaded, sanctioned-linked tankers departed Venezuela with...
Posidonia 2026 Review
Athens becomes the shipping world’s meeting point during Posidonia week. With Greek owners, global operators, yards, OEMs, class, finance, insurers, and maritime tech all in one place, it is a strong venue for relationship...
Ocean Infinity Review: Faster subsea intelligence, lower offshore exposure
Ocean Infinity is a good fit when the “hard part” of a job is getting high-quality subsea data or inspections without burning time, fuel, and headcount offshore. Their model leans heavily on robotics, software,...
Aground After a Drone Hit: Shadow-Fleet Tanker Qendil Tests Turkey’s Response Playbook
The sanctioned, Oman-flagged tanker Qendil ran aground off Turkey near Bozcaada after drifting from an anchorage, weeks after being reported as damaged in a Ukrainian long-range drone strike in the Mediterranean. The incident is...
Advanced Modeling Made Simple: 2026 Guide
Advanced modeling is becoming less about “nice-to-have engineering” and more about running ships with fewer surprises. As carbon costs and fuel rules tighten, teams are leaning on models that can test scenarios (speed, routing,...
Baltic subsea cable hits are reshaping the operating rules in the region
A fresh run of Baltic Sea undersea cable incidents is pushing the conversation from “repairs and resilience” to “movement scrutiny and attribution.” In just the past couple of weeks, authorities in Finland and Latvia...
Nortech AI Review: turning HQ data into live KPIs
Nortech AI sits where a lot of owners are stuck: too many signals, not enough usable insight. From its roots in Bergen and a growing presence in Lisbon, the company plugs into vessel control...
Ship Financing Made Simple in 2026
Ship financing does not have to feel like a black box. Most deals, whether it’s a single ship purchase or a fleet refinance, boil down to a handful of funding options that repeat across...
Skandi Commander Lands Four-Year Petrobras Award as DOF Adds Another $150m Slice of Brazil Backlog
DOF has locked in a fresh long-term win in Brazil: a four-year Petrobras charter for the ROV support vessel Skandi Commander, valued at about $150 million and scheduled to start in January 2027. The...
GNSS anti-jamming/anti-spoofing navigation resilience suites Made Simple: 2026 Update
GNSS interference is showing up less like an occasional anomaly and more like an operational condition on certain trade lanes. Going into 2026, bridge teams are increasingly expected to handle “position uncertainty” events cleanly,...
Jinjiang Shipping lines up a 4 + 4 feeder newbuild program
Jinjiang Shipping has signaled a measured expansion plan, seeking to order four 1,800 TEU “Bangkokmax” boxships with options for four more, backed by a disclosed investment cap of up to RMB 1.94bn (roughly $270m...
COSCO’s next heavylift bet: Four 40,000 dwt MPP newbuilds locked in at Chengxi
COSCO Shipping Specialized Carriers (SSE: 600428) is pushing further into the project-cargo and wind-energy logistics lane, approving four 40,000 dwt multi-purpose heavy-lift newbuilds at Chengxi. The order is priced at RMB 1.492 billion total,...
AVS Global Ship Supply Review: Global ship supply, executed under pressure
AVS Global Ship Supply is built for the moments when a vessel’s needs are urgent, the port call window is tight, and the paperwork still has to be clean. Their pitch is simple: one...
Happy New Year!
2025 was a year of learning and growth at Ship Universe.As we head into 2026, we’re focused on sharpening our coverage and delivering the most useful, practical maritime content we’ve produced to date. Be...
ALS Guide: How Air Lubrication Systems Can Transform your Fleet
Air lubrication systems have been discussed in shipping for more than a decade, but interest has accelerated as fuel costs, carbon intensity targets, and retrofit economics collide. Owners today are less interested in theory...
Painted Flag, Real Consequences: the Tanker Chase now has a Diplomatic edge
For nearly two weeks, a rust-streaked tanker chased across the Caribbean and into the open Atlantic has turned into a floating test of sanctions enforcement. As U.S. Coast Guard assets trail the vessel, observers...
Jinjiang’s Bangkokmax plan: a new intra-Asia capacity block on the drawing board
Jinjiang Shipping has put a fresh fleet expansion on the table: a board-approved plan to build four 1,800 TEU “Bangkokmax” containerships, with options for four more, backed by a total budget of up to...