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Vessel-tracking data show a growing pattern of Russian crude waiting at sea as Indian refinery buying cools, pushing more cargoes into “no destination yet” behavior, interim waypoints, or alternative discharge and storage locations. For...

Signal Ocean has announced the acquisition of AXSMarine, a major chartering and market-intelligence software provider. AXSMarine says day-to-day continuity comes first (tools, data, and teams remain as-is) while the combined group accelerates product development....

Tankers International has expanded beyond VLCCs by forming a dedicated Suezmax pool, and International Seaways has acquired sole ownership of Tankers International, with INSW contributing its spot-trading Suezmaxes into the new pool. For owners...

Wärtsilä says it has secured the first newbuild order for its Wärtsilä 25 Ammonia solution, supplying the ammonia engine plus fuel handling and mitigation systems for a Skarv Shipping Solutions cargo vessel under construction...

HMM has taken delivery of a 10,800-vehicle pure car and truck carrier built by Guangzhou Shipyard International, breaking the 10,000 CEU threshold as PCTC scaling continues. The vessel is described as 230 m long...

Bound4Blue says it has completed the first contracted eSAIL installation for Maersk Tankers, fitting four 24-meter suction sails on the MR tanker Maersk Trieste under a wider agreement covering 20 sails across five MR...

A severe cold snap is tightening US gas supply through freeze-offs while also lifting domestic heating demand, and that combination can reduce feedgas to LNG export terminals. Because the US is now a core...

Drewry’s World Container Index for 22 Jan 2026 fell 10% to $2,212 per 40ft, the second straight weekly decline. Drewry cited broad weakness across Transpacific and Asia to Europe, with Shanghai to Los Angeles...

France’s navy boarded and intercepted the tanker GRINCH in the western Mediterranean, describing it as a Russia-linked “shadow fleet” case involving suspected false-flag behavior. The operation was reported as being carried out under the...

COSCO Shipping is reported to have contracted 12 LNG dual-fuel 18,000 TEU class container ships at Jiangnan Shipyard (with China Shipbuilding Trading involved), with deliveries slated for 2028 to 2029. At roughly RMB 1.4bn...

Hanwha Ocean disclosed a two LNG carrier order worth KRW 738.3bn (about $502m) with deliveries scheduled by June 29, 2029. Trade reporting identifies Alpha Gas as the buyer, with Alpha Gas saying the pair...

After finishing the week at 1,567 (reported as a six-month low) on Jan 16, 2026, the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) rebounded sharply: 1,650 on Jan 19 (+83) and 1,729 on Jan 20 (+79 /...

CMA CGM is re-diverting several major strings away from Suez while Maersk is structurally resuming trans-Suez routing on its MECL service. That “split decision” is the signal: carriers are not moving in a single...

A burst of en-bloc VLCC buying led by Sinokor Maritime is firming secondhand benchmarks and pulling compliant (“clean”) tonnage out of the spot trading pool at the margin. Brokers have linked Sinokor to ~25...

LNG carrier spot earnings have softened sharply into mid-January: Atlantic LNG freight at about $26,250/day (down for a seventh straight week) and Pacific at about $41,250/day, while Riviera (citing Clarksons) reported average spot earnings...

HMM has signed contracts with HD Hyundai’s Avikus to deploy its AI-based autonomous navigation solution (HiNAS Control) across 40 HMM-operated vessels, paired with an MOU with HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (HD KSOE)...

ICC IMB’s annual Jan–Dec 2025 data shows 137 piracy and armed robbery incidents globally, with the Singapore Straits alone accounting for 80 of them and perpetrators succeeding in 91% of incidents. It is not...

A pre-dawn interdiction of the Guyana-flagged Aframax Veronica in the Caribbean marks the sixth Venezuela-linked tanker seized since mid-December, reinforcing that sanctions enforcement is now a capacity and scheduling variable for tankers trading near...

Maersk says it will structurally return its MECL service to the trans-Suez / Red Sea route (first sailings mid-January, with the service change taking effect on a late-January departure), while the UN Security Council...

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...