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Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Scorpio Tankers has invested $10 million in AMPERA, a Florida based advanced nuclear technology startup, to jointly develop micronuclear power systems for commercial shipping, offshore …

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Some shippers caught between soaring jet fuel costs and a blocked Strait of Hormuz are turning to an unlikely workaround: moving goods by ocean to …

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Hutchison Ports ECT Rotterdam took delivery of three new quay cranes at its ECT Delta terminal in Rotterdam on 9 April, expanding the facility’s capacity …

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Port of Liège president Willy Demeyer has issued an urgent call for new port land, warning that 97% of the Belgian inland port’s 382 hectares …

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Shipping traffic at Belgium’s Port of Antwerp ground to a partial halt on Friday after an oil spill during a bunkering operation in the Deurganckdock …

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Alan Wolff, then Deputy Director General of the World Trade Organization, delivered a stark warning to trade policymakers: the institution risks sliding into irrelevance unless …

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes CMA CGM posted stronger 2025 earnings than Maersk despite nearly identical revenues, underscoring a widening strategic divide between the world’s second and third-largest container carriers …

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Iran is enforcing a tightly controlled passage system over the Strait of Hormuz, demanding cryptocurrency payments and routing ships closer to its coastline, while allowing …

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (“K Line“) has acquired complete ownership of K Line Wind Service (“KWS“), consolidating the offshore wind joint venture it previously shared with …

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Trade policy chaos and rising bunker fuel prices are squeezing U.S. container import volumes, even though the Strait of Hormuz crisis has yet to trigger …

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Van Oord has completed the first commercial scale installation of offshore wind monopile foundations using a noise reducing jetting and vibration method, eliminating the need …

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Iran’s Revolutionary Guards announced designated alternative shipping routes through the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, warning that sea mines may be present in the waterway’s …

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Exmar, the Belgian shipowner, named two ocean going ammonia dual fuel midsize gas carriers on Wednesday, marking what the company said is a global first …

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has abruptly withdrawn its 15% transit fee discount for large containerships, effective 7 April 2026, abandoning an incentive that failed …

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes deugro, the Frankfurt based project freight forwarder, has completed the delivery of 1,235 water pipes and associated equipment to a remote construction site in Peru’s …

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Operaciones Portuarias Canarias S.A. (OPCSA) ordered four additional diesel hybrid rubber tired gantry cranes from Konecranes in the first quarter of 2026 for the Port …

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and Shell Trading Rotterdam B.V. have implemented a book and claim model that allows cargo owners to claim greenhouse gas emission reductions …

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Iran will charge vessels up to $2 million for passage through the Strait of Hormuz under a ceasefire arrangement with the United States announced on …

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes NKT launched the hull of its new cable laying vessel NKT Eleonora into the water at Vard‘s shipyard in Tulcea, Romania, marking a construction milestone …

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes The two week ceasefire between the United States and Iran has done little to restart vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, with shipping lines …

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Sinotrans has completed the full logistics chain for what is now China’s deepest offshore wind power project, enabling the Huaneng Shandong Peninsula North Offshore Wind …

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Sarjak Container Lines warned on April 8, 2026, that the two-week ceasefire reopening the Strait of Hormuz leaves vessel operators facing a near impossible voyage …

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Japan has enforced mandatory X-ray screening for all outbound air cargo, replacing the current reliance on surface level explosive trace detection and marking one of …

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes The United States and Iran agreed to a two week ceasefire on Tuesday, April 8, conditioned on the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, a …

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Panama Ports Company, the local subsidiary of Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings, filed arbitration proceedings against Maersk on Tuesday, accusing the Danish shipping and …

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Maersk said on Wednesday that a ceasefire between the United States and Iran has not yet restored sufficient security certainty for commercial shipping through the …

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Subsea 7 S.A. has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with PETRONAS Suriname E&P B.V. and the Subsea Integration Alliance (SIA) to jointly advance offshore field …

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Ocean Disruption Spills Into Airfreight Nearly six weeks after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, the consequences have moved well beyond container shipping and are …

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes New Container Route Ends Eight-Year Gap Between Sendai and Manila DP World has relaunched a direct container shipping link between Japan and the Philippines, ending …

Estimated reading time: 8 minutes By Peter Bouwhuis Let me tell you something about big ideas. Everyone loves them. Politicians love them. Architects love them. The press loves them. And …

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Swan Defence and Heavy Industries Limited has signed a shipbuilding contract with Energy ONE Limited to build four 92,500 deadweight tonne ammonia dual-fuel bulk carriers …

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes A French-owned container ship completed the first confirmed Western European transit of the Strait of Hormuz on April 2, offering a narrow commercial signal in …

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Seizure Powers Move from Exception to Tool of Policy Asset control is no longer the last resort of wartime governments. Across the United States, European …

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes The British International Freight Association has named Richard Catt as its regional representative for South East England, expanding the trade body’s local support network for …

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes ATHENS — Carlova Maritime, the Athens-based tanker and bulk carrier owner, has committed to a second 300,000 deadweight tonne very large crude carrier at Hanwha …

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes A fuel tanker exploded at a storage facility beneath the Bridge of the Americas at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal on Monday afternoon, …

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes The world’s major ports are running out of space. Coastlines are congested, land reclamation is expensive and politically contested, and the majority of the planet’s …

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes IC Shipbrokers reported Thursday that global freight markets are moving in sharply divergent directions: the dry bulk sector softening from its first-quarter peak while the …

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Gateway Terminals Savannah has appointed Bryan Blalock as its new president, succeeding Kevin Price, who will join the Georgia Ports Authority leadership team on July …

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Japan Airlines launched codeshare cargo operations with Cargolux Airlines International on the Tokyo Narita to Luxembourg route on April 1, 2026, completing a week in …

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes The European Parliament approved the EU-US Turnberry trade agreement on Thursday with 417 votes in favour, 154 against, and 71 abstentions, advancing a deal that …

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes A Turkish-operated crude oil tanker that had departed from Russia was struck by a naval drone on Thursday as it approached the Black Sea entrance …

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes A.P. Moller Maersk has suspended bookings across much of the Arabian Gulf, introduced emergency fuel and freight surcharges, and warned that schedule reliability will remain …

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Marine insurers stand firm in Middle East as geopolitical risks rise Global marine insurers are maintaining robust support for trade in the Middle East, ensuring …

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes A Ukrainian drone strike on the Vyborg Shipbuilding Plant near St. Petersburg on March 25 damaged a heavily armed Arctic icebreaker under construction for Russia’s …

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Royal Van Oord reported a net profit of EUR 110 million for full year 2025, more than doubling the EUR 43 million recorded in 2024, …

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes United European Car Carriers (UECC) reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 154,468 tonnes in 2025, a 44% improvement on the 107,173 tonnes cut in 2024, …