Venezuela’s export tempo breaks as U.S. interdictions trigger U-turns and stalled loadings
Oil cargo flow out of Venezuela slowed in late December 2025 after a new round of U.S. Coast Guard interdiction activity raised the risk of taking tankers from Venezuelan waters into international routes. Tracking...
Sea Japan 2026 Review: Where Japan’s Shipbuilding Plans Get Real
Tokyo turns into a working shop floor for shipbuilding and fleet upgrades. Sea Japan 2026 brings owners, yards, and tech teams into one campus so you can compare retrofit paths, see real hardware, and...
Mare Supply & Services Review: Consolidated ship supply across all Turkish calls
Mare Supply & Services is a Turkey-based ship supply and services firm built by ex-seafarers, covering all Turkish ports, shipyards and straits from its Izmir base and extended network. They combine provisions, bonded and...
Saipem with a Massive $4bn Offshore Build With 2029–2030 Heavy-Lift Install
Saipem (working in partnership with China’s Offshore Oil Engineering Co. Ltd., COOEC) has been awarded an offshore EPCI contract by QatarEnergy LNG for the COMP5 package of the North Field Production Sustainability (NFPS) Offshore...
Top 12 Maritime Protection and Indemnity (P&I) Clubs
In the high-stakes world of maritime shipping, where unpredictable seas and complex global regulations collide, having the right insurance coverage is essential for shipowners and operators. Protection and Indemnity (P&I) insurance stands as a...
U.S. Pursues Another “Dark Fleet” Tanker Near Venezuela
U.S. officials say the Coast Guard is actively pursuing an oil tanker in international waters near Venezuela, as Washington steps up enforcement tied to President Trump’s recently announced “blockade” of sanctioned tankers moving in...
Ukraine Expands Pressure on Russia-linked Tankers into the Mediterranean
Ukraine’s maritime campaign widened beyond the Black Sea in mid December 2025 after a drone strike hit the crude oil tanker Qendil in the Mediterranean, off Libya. Ukrainian security service sources said the tanker...
Cetasol Review: Making Ships Smarter
Cetasol sits firmly in the “make the ships you already own smarter” camp. Their iHelm platform bolts onto existing vessels, pulls data from engines, navigation and weather, then feeds captains and shore teams real-time...
Baltic Seabed Security Tightens: Cables, Patrols, and a Harder Operating Environment
The Baltic Sea’s “routine traffic” story changed in 2025. A run of undersea cable incidents and sabotage concerns pushed NATO and regional navies into a more persistent, more visible posture. The result is a...
Zero-Emission Tugboats Made Simple: 2026 Update
Zero emission tugboats have moved from concept to real workhorses in a few key ports. Fully electric tug fleets are already operating in Vancouver and on Canada’s west coast, powered by hydro grids and...
Deadweight Economics: What It Really Costs to Scrap a Ship in 2026
Scrap value is the part of shipping nobody budgets for in public, but everyone cares about in private. Heading into 2026, “what you get paid” to recycle a ship is being pulled in two...
Hot Cargo, Hard Fires in 2025: What kept Ship Fire risk in the Spotlight?
Ship fires in 2025 were not one single story, they showed up across multiple vessel types. Container operators dealt with cargo related ignition risk and misdeclared goods, while vehicle carriers faced the reality that...
Maersk Tests the Red Sea Again with the First Bab el-Mandeb Transit Since 2023
Maersk confirmed that one of its containerships successfully transited the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and entered the Red Sea on December 19, 2025, marking its first such passage in nearly two years. The move is...
Ship Crew Safety Tech Made Simple: 2026 Update
Ship crew safety tech is getting popular for the same reason dashcams did in trucking: when something goes wrong, it goes wrong fast, and the cost of “we did not know” is huge. The...
Tilla Technologies GmbH Review: Crew changes, minus the chaos
Tilla’s pitch is simple: crew changes are one of the most email-heavy, error-prone parts of ship operations, and those small misses turn into real costs fast. Their platform is built to centralize the moving...
Shadow Fleet Squeeze as EU Adds 41 More Ships, Sanctions List Nears 600
The EU Council added 41 more vessels to its Russia “shadow fleet” sanctions list on December 18, 2025, pushing the total number of designated ships to almost 600. The newly listed vessels are subject...
Northern Sea Route 2025: More Voyages, Same Hard Limits
Arctic shipping activity along Russia’s Northern Sea Route (NSR) edged higher in 2025, with more transits, more cargo, and a noticeable rise in container voyages tied largely to Russia–China trade and a small number...
Singapore Maritime Week (SMW) 2026 Review
For one week Singapore turns the maritime agenda into a live workshop. Singapore Maritime Week 2026 puts policy, ports, owners, and tech teams in the same corridors so you can translate ambition into projects:...
Tariff Whiplash Hits LA: Strong 2025 Finish, Softer 2026 Forecast
Trade at the Port of Los Angeles is still on pace for one of its biggest years, but the month-to-month pattern has turned choppy. Importers pulled cargo forward to get ahead of shifting tariff...
Panama Canal Turns the Corner: FY2025 Transits and Revenue Rebound After Drought
After the 2023 to 2024 drought disrupted schedules and forced operating limits, the Panama Canal closed fiscal year 2025 with a clear rebound in both vessel traffic and financial results. The Canal Authority reported...
Mythos AI Review: Bridge Intelligence for Real-World Navigation
Mythos AI is betting that the bridge can be made safer and less workload-heavy without ripping out existing systems. Their focus is autonomy-augmented navigation: software that fuses sensors, highlights what matters in the channel,...
Advanced Hull Coatings Made Simple: 2026 Update
Advanced hull coatings are becoming a front-line efficiency tool because they target one of the most stubborn fuel drains in shipping: hull roughness and biofouling drag. The “latest” shift going into 2026 is not...
U.S. “Sanctioned Tanker” Blockade Tightens as Venezuela Sends Naval Escorts
The U.S. has escalated pressure on Venezuela’s oil trade by ordering a blockade focused on oil tankers already under U.S. sanctions moving into or out of Venezuelan waters. The move follows the U.S. seizure...
Panama Canal Transit Fees Explained: 2026 Edition
Panama Canal “fees” are really a stack of costs that hit you in different ways: the toll itself, the slot you need to make the schedule work, and the penalties that show up when...
Tanker Market Shock as U.S. Targets Sanctioned Ships in Venezuela Trade
Trump’s new Venezuela move is not a broad embargo on every ship. It is a stated order to block oil tankers that are already under U.S. sanctions from entering or leaving Venezuela, which immediately...
Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems Made Simple: 2026 Update
Exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS), better known as scrubbers, are the “sulfur compliance plumbing” bolted onto a ship’s exhaust. They let operators keep burning higher-sulfur fuel while still meeting SOx emission limits by cleaning...
Crude Slips Under $60 as Peace-Talk Optimism Reprices 2026 Fuel Risk
Oil prices fell to their lowest levels since May after markets priced in a higher chance of a Russia–Ukraine peace deal. The logic is simple: if diplomacy materially reduces sanctions pressure, more Russian barrels...
Everwind Review: Scaling Renewable Energy in Maritime
EverWind’s pitch sits at the intersection of ports and energy. They are building a clean fuels platform in Atlantic Canada anchored by a deepwater terminal at Point Tupper, aiming to produce green hydrogen and...
Fincantieri’s 2030 playbook: Bigger, higher-margin, and more defense-heavy
Fincantieri has approved a new 2026–2030 business plan (“F4”) targeting roughly 40% revenue growth by 2030 vs 2025, with a much bigger step-up in profitability. The plan leans into defense and underwater demand, while...
Hapag-Lloyd Bets $500m on New Wave of Methanol Boxships
Hapag-Lloyd has signed a contract with Chinese yard CIMC Raffles for eight 4,500 TEU dual-fuel methanol container ships, a fleet renewal move worth more than $500 million with deliveries scheduled for 2028 and 2029....