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India’s Directorate General of Shipping has asked the Bombay High Court to speed up a third auction of the abandoned general cargo ship Sencer 1, IMO 9311804, after replacement crew …

Eastward coal shipments by RZD increased by 4.9% to 10.1 million tonnes. Photo credit: RZD press office Russian Railways (RZD) says it has increased transportation of export freight to sea …

Avtandil Kalandadze, the 47-year-old Georgian former master of the sanctioned crude tanker Bella 1, has pleaded guilty in Washington to refusing lawful US Coast Guard orders during a weeks-long pursuit …

Canada has added five Russian trading venues, including Moscow Exchange and SPB Exchange, and 121 vessels to its Russia sanctions list under amendments that entered into force on 12 June, …

Europe will need about 65 dedicated CO2 carriers and 33 ports by 2050 to move captured emissions at the scale required for its carbon capture, utilisation and storage buildout, according …

Zanzibar is moving ahead with plans for an integrated free port at Mangapwani to strengthen its role in East African and Indian Ocean trade, according to Daily News. Acting Minister …

Finnish prosecutors have charged the captain and bosun of the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines-registered cargo ship Fitburg over damage to two subsea telecommunications cables in the Gulf of Finland, …

Canada and Irving Shipbuilding have laid the keel for the first River-class destroyer, the future HMCS Fraser, moving the Royal Canadian Navy’s 15-ship surface combatant programme into a formal construction …

Jan De Nul’s jack-up installation vessel Vole au vent has installed the first turbine at the 496-MW Dieppe-Le Tréport offshore wind farm in northern France, according to Jan De Nul. …

RINA has won a contract to carry out safety assessment work for the Green Hydrogen Hub Project H2WATT in Indonesia, led by PLN Puslitbang, the research and development arm of …

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries has signed a memorandum of understanding with KCC and TAS Global to develop and commercialise what it says is the shipbuilding industry’s first robot- and data-based …

Turkey will raise the gold franc benchmark used to calculate charges for ships transiting the Bosphorus and Dardanelles without calling at a Turkish port to $6.70 from July 1, up …

Hanwha Ocean has booked a KRW 800.1bn ($529m) order for four VLCC newbuildings from an unnamed Asian shipowner, with industry sources linking the contract to South Korea’s Pan Ocean, according …

AD Ports Group has signed a memorandum of understanding with Dajin Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. to explore offshore wind supply chain development, maritime logistics, port infrastructure and strategic vessel investments …

US President Donald Trump said commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz could reopen toll-free after Washington and Tehran signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at restoring traffic through the …

Panama’s ship registry has shrunk by 3.3% so far this year as owners move tonnage away from the flag under heavier Chinese port state control scrutiny, according to Clarksons Research. …

Bourbon has signed a multi-month subsea services contract for operations offshore Ghana on the Jubilee field, according to Bourbon. The contract will deploy the MPSV Bourbon Evolution 802, fitted with …

China Classification Society has completed inspection of Guangqi Delta, an 80,000-tonne-class bulk carrier converted into a 3,600-TEU containership at Zhoushan Xinya Ship Repair Co Ltd, according to CCS. The project …

UK prosecutors have charged Ajay Pant, the 38-year-old Indian master of the sanctioned tanker Smyrtos, after the vessel was seized in the English Channel during a Royal Navy-led operation involving …

The European Union has added Limited Liability Company Gazpromneft Shipping and Limited Liability Company Lukoil-Western Siberia to its sanctions list in a 15 June package targeting 34 individuals and 47 …

Enstructure has agreed to acquire all marine terminal operations of Montréal-based LOGISTEC, adding a North American network covering 62 ports and 84 terminals across Canada and the US, according to …

Stena Line and the Swedish Transport Administration have signed an agreement to keep Sweden’s only regular rail ferry service running between Trelleborg and Rostock until 31 December 2031, according to …

Eitzen Gruppen has moved its maritime electrification business into Zen and ordered two 900-TEU all-electric containerships for services between Hamburg, Gothenburg and Oslo, according to Oslo Havn KF. Zen has …

Misurata Free Zone has signed a memorandum of understanding with Port of Antwerp-Bruges covering port development, logistics services and a planned bulk cargo terminal, according to Misurata Free Zone. The …

Saipem has sent the 7,500-tonne jacket for the Neptun Deep gas development from its Arbatax yard in Sardinia for installation in the Romanian Black Sea, according to Saipem. The structure …

Ocean Network Express has launched the weekly Iberia Baltic Express service at the Port of Riga, giving the Latvian port its first direct container link with Portuguese ports, according to …

HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering has signed a cooperation agreement with MARCON LC to develop a Korean service operation vessel for offshore wind farms, according to HD Korea Shipbuilding …

John Fredriksen-backed Seatankers Management has exercised options for four more Newcastlemax bulk carriers at Dajin Heavy Industry in China, doubling its programme at the yard to eight vessels, according to …

Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency has signed contracts to build two new research vessels, the Ocean Multipurpose Research Vessel and the Coastal Research Vessel, under the KRISNA project, according …

NYK’s 480-gt Tokyo dining cruise ship replacing Lady Crystal will be fitted with a Yanmar Power Solutions hydrogen fuel cell system and is scheduled to enter service in 2027, according …

Dubai-based Emarat Maritime has placed three firm 930-TEU feeder containership newbuildings at Hubei Guangji Xinneng Shipbuilding Group in China, with options for three more vessels, according to Emarat Maritime’s fleet …

WinGD has completed the Factory Acceptance Test for its first X72DF-A ammonia-fuelled engine in China, clearing the unit for installation on the first of 10 CMB.TECH 210,000-dwt dry bulk carriers, …

ESL Shipping will integrate subsidiary AtoB@C Shipping under a single ESL Shipping brand, in a move the Finnish dry bulk operator says will clarify its service offering, strengthen its market …

Global Ports Holding (GPH), the world’s largest cruise port operator and management company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines to …

Seven Pacific island countries signed the Pacific Blue Shipping Partnership charter in Majuro on 11 June 2026, establishing the PBSP as an international organisation subject to ratification, according to the …

Japan’s Imabari Shipbuilding, Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Namura Shipbuilding are aiming to restart domestic construction of LNG carriers around 2035, in a move that would rebuild a strategic segment of …

VLCC newbuilding orders have climbed above 120 ships in 2026, already surpassing the previous full-year record for the segment, as shipowners continue to bet on large crude carriers despite a …

Royal Caribbean has started assembly of its seventh Oasis-class cruise ship at Chantiers de l’Atlantique in Saint-Nazaire, France, with a keel-laying ceremony that puts the newbuild on track for a …

Oil prices fell more than 4% after the US and Iran outlined a preliminary memorandum that includes provisions to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping and end the …

Capital Clean Energy Carriers Corp. and CMA CGM S.A. have formed a 50-50 joint venture to order, charter and operate a 20,000-cbm dual-fuel LNG bunkering vessel, CCEC’s first unit dedicated …

British forces boarded and detained the sanctioned tanker SMYRTOS in the English Channel on 14 June 2026 in the first UK-led operation of its kind against shadow-fleet shipping, according to …

Singapore handled 3.94m TEU of containers in May 2026, up 3% year on year, while bunker sales fell sharply despite higher vessel arrivals, according to the Maritime and Port Authority …

DP World’s Jebel Ali Port in Dubai has been ranked ninth in the 2025 Lloyd’s List Top 100 Container Ports table after handling 15.536m TEU in 2024, according to Lloyd’s …

The US Coast Guard has selected Kodiak and Seward in Alaska as the first homeports for its Arctic Security Cutter fleet, assigning the first two vessels to Kodiak and a …

Gulftainer has unveiled plans for the 150-hectare Al Dhaid Multi-Modal Trade Corridor in Sharjah, a 1.5m TEU-per-year inland logistics hub designed to extend Khorfakkan Port’s reach into the UAE and …

The Port of Long Beach handled 842,030 TEU in May, up 31.7% from the same month last year and the port’s third-busiest May on record, according to the Port of …

The Port of Barcelona has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Shanghai Municipal Transportation Commission and Shanghai International Port Group to establish a formal “sister ports” relationship and advance …

A Lloyd’s Register-led study with the Port of Rotterdam Authority, CORE POWER and A.P. Moller - Maersk has concluded that existing port safety and risk-management regimes could provide the first …

Fincantieri’s Norwegian subsidiary Vard has signed a contract to design and build an 80.4-metre stern trawler for Rosund Drift AS, according to Fincantieri. The vessel will be based on the …

APM Terminals has delivered its new container terminal at the Port of Suape in Pernambuco, northeast Brazil, with the facility entering final preparations before operations begin, according to APM Terminals. …