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The Pasha Group has named longtime shipping and logistics executive Raymond Fitzgerald as President and Chief Operating Officer as the family-owned transportation company adjusts its leadership structure to support continued...
Tidewater has completed its $500m takeover of Wilson Sons Ultratug Offshore, adding 22 platform supply vessels and dramatically scaling up its position in Brazil. The Houston-based OSV giant closed the acquisition of Wilson Sons Ultratug Participações and affiliate Atlantic Offshore Services on August 31, six months af
Sweden’s AFRY has been brought in as an international technical adviser for the $2.69bn Thai Binh LNG-to-power development in northern Vietnam, including work on the project’s floating terminal, subsea pipeline and offshore mooring infrastructure. The engineering group said that its scope covers offshore LNG receiving
Dutch survey specialist Deep has secured a multi-year contract from TenneT covering annual integrity surveys across the transmission operator’s offshore cable infrastructure. The Amsterdam-based company will carry out the campaigns annually between 2026 and 2029, using hydrographic and geophysical surveys to measure ca
Helix Energy Solutions Group has completed its combination with Hornbeck Offshore Services after shareholders cleared the all-stock deal, creating a larger US offshore services group under the Hornbeck name. Helix shareholders approved the proposals required to complete the transaction at a special meeting and the merg
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CSSC achieved substantial performance improvements across all core business segments in the first half
Maritime technology specialists will gather at IMO this week in a bid to break the deadlock over the Net Zero Framework (NZF), the outcome will shape shipping for generations
A weapon that can be fired towards enemy submarines from drones launched from aircraft carriers or other ships is being developed by the U.S Naval Air Systems Command.
7 people have been detained in connection with the sinking of the passenger ferry FILO Jet off Kyrenia.
For the first time in 6 years, a vessel carrying 30,000 tonnes of durum wheat from Canada’s northern Manitoba departed for Europe.
The vast majority of EU-owned or EU-flagged ships are being scrapped under poor conditions in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
The incident occurred at around 7:30 p.m. while the Barbados-flagged ship Vienna was undergoing cargo unloading operations.
Maersk could slip from first to fourth in the global liner rankings within the space of just six years as CMA CGM and COSCO continue to expand at a pace the Danish carrier has so far been unwilling to match. Having surrendered the liner crown to Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) in early 2022, Maersk is …
Shipping’s decarbonisation debate is moving beyond the search for a winning fuel, with owners now facing a much harder challenge around execution, capital allocation and preserving asset value as carbon costs rise and regulation fragments. That is the central message from ABS’s 2026 Sustainability Outlook, Decision Poi
MOLGSM will oversee the management of more than 200 vessels across the MOL Group, strengthening the safety management framework.
Petros Pappas-led Star Bulk Carriers is preparing to add Athens to its long-standing Nasdaq listing, becoming the latest major Greek shipping name to tap the country’s resurgent capital market. Greek financial reports citing Beta Securities say the dry bulk giant is targeting September 9-11 for the transaction, with ar
A fresh Ukrainian drone attack has sparked a fire and caused damage at Ust-Luga, one of Russia’s most important Baltic export ports. Alexander Drozdenko, governor of Russia’s Leningrad region, confirmed damage inside the port zone early on Tuesday, with emergency services responding while the attack was still being rep
Russia will need around RUB10trn ($116bn) by 2035 to turn its Arctic coastline into a fully fledged transport corridor, an investment bill of such scale that Moscow is likely to need substantial international participation, with China the obvious candidate. Rosatom chief executive Alexey Likhachev told Russian title Ex
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A tanker has been struck by three unknown projectiles while transiting the Strait of Hormuz along the Omani side of the waterway, the latest attack on commercial shipping amid renewed US-Iran hostilities. UK Maritime Trade Operations said the incident occurred at around 20:00 UTC on Monday, approximately 17 nautical mi
Lila Global is back in the market in wet, in what has become its favourite segment this year, adding its sixth tanker in 2026. Brokers are linking the outfit to the purchase of the 2010-built suezmax Cape Benat, the former Front Loki, for $62.5m.The ship will become Lila Global’s second suezmax and also the second …
European naval forces have boarded another tanker suspected of operating as part of Russia’s shadow fleet, marking the sixth such inspection carried out by European Union operations in recent months....
For Ingrid Kylstad, managing director of Klaveness Digital, a useful maritime conference is not one where technology vendors take turns presenting at shipowners. It is one where senior industry figures challenge each other. “The format has a strong appeal; a room full of opinionated, senior figures in unscripted conver
Iran continues to hit vessels in the Strait of Hormuz while another US interdiction looks likely in the Indian Ocean
SK ecoplant has agreed to sell its entire stake in offshore wind foundation specialist SK Oceanplant to a consortium led by The Ocean Asset Management for KRW410bn ($299m). The South Korean group signed a share purchase agreement covering all 22.26m shares it owns in SK Oceanplant, equivalent to a 35.62% stake. The Oce
Norwegian offshore engineering group Aker Solutions has named Paal Eikeseth as its new chief executive, replacing Kjetel Digre after six years at the helm. Eikeseth takes over with immediate effect. He has led Aker Solutions’ Life Cycle business since 2022 and previously held senior operational roles covering the UK, A
PV Drilling has secured a new jackup contract from PetroVietnam Exploration Production’s Ho Chi Minh City branch for a three-well campaign offshore Vietnam. The contract covers drilling at TL-WHP in Blocks 01/97 and 02/97. PV Drilling will bring in Borr Drilling’s Idun for around 134 days, with work scheduled to start
The US offshore vessel owner grows its access to the Brazilian market adding a fleet of 22 PSVs
Equipment makers enter SMM with a strong outlook, but China’s shipbuilding rise is reshaping the contest for technology and industrial value.
A tanker has been involved in an incident with military forces in the Indian Ocean off Oman, according to a new UK Maritime Trade Operations advisory, raising the possibility of...
U.S. President Donald Trump was quoted on Monday as promising to "hit them hard" after Iran launched missiles overnight at two U.S. air bases in Jordan in response to a U.S. attack on Iran's Larak island.
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The U.S. Maritime Administration is activating SUNY Maritime College’s Empire State VII for a classified national security mission after determining that no other suitable vessel is available to meet an urgent Military...
By Alex Longley and Archie Hunter (Bloomberg) — The world’s oil supertankers are making unprecedented sums sailing from the Persian Gulf as Iran keeps attacking ships — with one South Korean...
Turkish and Somali forces have freed the cargo ship Lutuf after a 10-day operation against pirates who hijacked the vessel off Somalia’s Puntland coast earlier this month, according to Somalia’s Ministry of...
Cheniere Energy has completed its major Stage 3 expansion at the Corpus Christi LNG terminal in Texas while marking another milestone for its U.S. Gulf Coast export business with the...
California has sued the Trump administration over its deal to cancel a planned 2-gigawatt floating offshore wind project off the state’s Central Coast, challenging the administration’s increasingly aggressive strategy of...
Annual ABS report offers a strategic guide for shipowners navigating fragmented regulations, rising carbon costs and shifting fuel pathways Shipping’s challenge is now how organizations can navigate decarbonization while maintaining...
Lincoln spent almost seven months in the U.S. Central Command area and was at sea for more than 250 days without a break.
The ship left at around 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 30 and is expected to reach Indonesia in one to two weeks, Japan's Defense Ministry said.
German tonnage provider Peter Döhle Schiffahrts is being linked to another two containership newbuildings at Hudong-Zhonghua, extending one of the busiest boxship ordering runs among Germany’s independent owners. Shipbuilding sources reported the Hamburg outfit has returned to the CSSC yard for a fresh 14,000 teu two-s
Weather is no longer just something to be worked around it is transforming into a structural constraint for supply chains
More than 1,500 oil tankers and 1,700 commercial vessels had used the designated route before the war began in January 2026.
The 105,000-ton cruise ship VISIO left the Tianjin International Cruise Home Port on Saturday with more than 2,700 passengers.
Newly established Xiamen Xinliansheng Shipping has moved straight into shipowning with a RMB158m ($24m) containership newbuild at Zhejiang Shenzhou Sunshine Heavy Industry. A Xiamen enterprise investment filing shows the company has commissioned the Chinese yard to build a 2,000 teu unit for delivery in July 2027. Xinl
A cargo ship sailing under the Russian flag ran aground on the Alacali Beach close to Istanbul in Turkiye.
Supreme Leader of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei, has urged Muslim nations to recognise their ‘real enemy’ and confront it together.
Port data centres moved offshore could be one of the applications for maritime nuclear technology in the US
Sources suggest that shipping companies are resuming their services through the strategic route, shifting from the alternative route around the Cape of Good Hope.