Ilya Espino de Marotta, a 64-year-old marine engineer and Texas A&M graduate will serve a seven-year term as Panama Canal Administrator, from 7 September 2026 until 2033, succeeding Ricaurte Vásquez, ...

A long-awaited safety report released by the US Coast Guard (USCG) in the aftermath of a 2024 bridge allision at the Port of Baltimore warns of a growing vulnerability of America’s port infrastructure ...

Delegates at the ISWG-GHG effectively had similar views on the four-day meeting that ended on Friday, that there was no shift in positions, even if they expressed it in differing ways. One called it ...

The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) said on Friday that the previously announced draught reduction to 14.48 metres Tropical Fresh Water (TFW), scheduled to take effect on 1 October 2026, has been ...

Even seasoned brokers were left speechless when ADNOC L&S bought the 15-year-old VLCC, Olympic Leopard, for $115 million a couple of weeks ago. The price, about 10% less than the prevailing ...

Schedule reliability has taken a significant turn for the worse as container spot rates soar for cargo calling at US ports according to the latest Xenata data. Global schedule reliability is down to ...

US Central Command said it had destroyed three Iranian crude tankers on 5 September in retaliatory strikes, “permanently disabling” two of the ships and “completely destroying” another. Centcom said ...

The container sector is set to see its first vessel fitted with a rotor sails with an Anemoi unit fitted on a Maersk vessel. Anemoi will install a five-metre diameter and 35 high fixed rotor sail ...

A third tanker was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday and a day later US forces launched strikes on Larak Island. The UKMTO said it had received a report of a tanker being hit by an unknown ...

The inauguration of the first three berths during Phase One of its development in September 2022 marked a momentous milestone in Singapore’s maritime history, firmly establishing the nation as a ...

Container shipping lines have been forced into abandoning moves to return to the shorter Red Sea/Suez Canal route as fighting between Iranian, Israeli and US forces escalated over the weekend.

Transits in the Panama Canal during the first four months of the Canal’s fiscal year 2025 [October 2024-January 2025] increased 25.04%, compared to the same period a year ago, when traffic through the ...