2026 must be the year we put people first
Henrik Jensen, the CEO of Danica Crewing Specialists, has some New Year’s resolution suggestions to improve life at sea.For years, our industry has swung betw...
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10,611 articlesVenergy steps into boxships with feeder newbuild deal in China
Greek tanker newcomer Venergy Maritime has moved to diversify its fleet, placing its first order in the containership segment after an active year in tanker new...
Bahri named strategic partner for WAVE ocean regeneration initiative
Bahri, Saudi Arabia’s national shipping and logistics company, has been named a strategic partner of the WAVE initiative, a collective action platform focused...
Wan Hai heads to Chinese yard for LNG-powered newbuilds
Taiwanese boxship owner Wan Hai Lines has returned to the newbuilding market, placing an order for six 6,000 teu dual-fuel LNG-powered units as it continues to ...
Cape Shipping eyes VLCC entry as tanker expansion continues
Greece’s Cape Shipping is weighing a move into the VLCC segment, extending a rapid tanker expansion by the Andrianopoulos family after several years focused o...
Velesto sells 2010-built jackup for $63m
Malaysia’s Velesto Energy has sold one of its jackups to PT Indonesia Drilling Energy for a cash consideration of $63m.PT Indonesia Drilling Energy bought the...
ConocoPhillips sanctions $1.8bn redevelopment project off Norway
US major ConocoPhillips has greenlit the $1.8bn a new project on the Greater Ekofisk Area in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, some 300 km from Stavanger.T...
Vietnam’s Truong Hai steps up boxship ambitions with orders in China
Vietnamese logistics player Truong Hai Group is moving up a gear in container shipping, ordering a pair of bangkokmax vessels that will be the largest ships in ...
Why shipping isn’t panicking over swollen orderbooks
Traditionally in shipping, alarm bells tend to ring for investors when the orderbook-to-fleet ratio of a sector goes above 30%. For certain segments today, nota...
Swedish navy flags armed guards aboard Russian shadow tankers
Sweden’s navy has confirmed that Russia is mounting a military-style operation in the Baltic Sea to protect its sanctioned shadow fleet, with uniformed and po...
Smartflux joins DCSA+ to advance digital container logistics
The Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) has welcomed Smartflux S.A., the region’s first fully digital electronic delivery order (EDO) platform, to i...
Trump moves to choke Venezuelan oil shipping with ‘total and complete’ tanker blockade
In a major escalation of maritime pressure on Caracas, US president Donald Trump has ordered “a total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers ...